Recently many countries digitize payments. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high damage resistance, no n...
Oh, it’s an eternal topic – creating an Excel spreadsheet from Delphi. Excel spreadsheets are one of the world’s standards today and for programs, even simple ones, it is frequently required to output the data as tables and transfer reports to the spreadsheet. One thing to notice i...
When you develop the same reports, or reports with the same bands, you can use the inheritance of reports. That is a basic report that will be used as a basis for others. This will provide a uniform component to the set of reports you create. Just working with such a set of identical reports, the u...
Quite often, you need to get a PDF document from a Pascal application - either Delphi or Lazarus. Usually it is recommended to use specialized solutions, PDF converters (such as itext, Synopse PDF Engine, PowerPDF, HotPDF, PDF Creator Pilot, PDFtoolkit VCL, Debenu Quick PDF Library etc.). In this ar...
Probably many have encountered the problem of using a CSV file as a DataSet in Delphi. Let's have a look at one of the solutions to this problem. We will connect the CSV file via TADOQuery and build a report from this data in FastReport VCL 6. Create a project and add the following components. ...
Often, when creating reports, we have to deal with databases that are far from ideal. The various "features", sometimes get us stuck. For example, how to build a report based on multiple datasets, which will result in MS SQL stored procedures? When you create a data source in the report, we can use ...
Report designer has a lot of useful features. This is a complete development environment with many options, a full study of which will require a lot of time. But what if you need to develop simple reports, or do not need to be developed, but only edit existing ones. Then the complex interface and re...
Today we will look at the way to get stock quotes using a GET request with HTTPS protocol and public tradingviewapi.docs.apiary.io APIAccording to the documentation https://tradingviewapi.docs.apiary.io/#reference/0/history/0?console=1 in order to get stock quotes you need to use the GET req...
Sometimes I'm having a situation where you need to set up a web report to another data source. This may be necessary if the report was developed with the use of the test database, or a database simply "moved" to another location. Or maybe the other way around you need to connect a report to the test...
Many users of report generators fairly standard functionality in their everyday work. But sometimes they have to deal with non-trivial tasks, and then search for a solution may take a lot of time and effort. But perhaps the best solution is to ask the developers to get the most qualified assistance....