"Drill Down" or "deepening into data" is a concept with many sides, which can refer to actions in tables or in something else that encapsulates information. And plain and simple, it's a drop-down list! One of the most important operations is Drill-Down, for example, in OLAP with cubes, and, in prin...
How to make a mush of data into an informative report? Oracle DB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, FireBird are probably the most popular, but by no means all, of the many DBMSs in which data can be created, populated, modified and managed. Often they are filled with this very data for...
When you are tasked with creating a large number of reports within one corporate style, you face the problem of duplicating some information, design styles in each report. As a rule, public reports (documents) in a company have the same header with name and contact information. Let's say you have 50...
Recently we've released FastReport FMX 2.8 which includes support of FMXLinux framework. In this article I'd like to describe installation process and requirements based on trial version of FastReport FMX 2.8, Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4.1, FmxLinux 1.52 from GetIT package manager and Ubuntu 20.04....
During the summer we held a contest for the best demo addon, application or report for FastReport VCL 6. We selected two winners whose projects complied with all the rules. They received their prizes and took a minute to tell us about themselves and their projects. First winning project: custom DB...
What is a ZPL file? ZPL stands for Zebra Programming Language. It allows team to create the desired print design for any label or page. This makes the label independent from the specific printing device. The printer receives commands to produce shapes, frames, symbols and other things, and itsel...
With the release of FR .NET 2021.1 we’re happy to announce two important things: addition of the FastReport.NET package and the support of .NET 5.0. .NET5.0 support was added for FastReport.Core and FastReport.CoreWin (special version of FastReport .NET with UI for .NET Core3.1 and .NET 5.0 t...
We could talk a lot about our experiences and difficulties in the past year, but we'll just take stock of this year and talk a little bit about our plans for the future. In spite of all the difficulties, we worked hard this year. Not everything we planned has been completed, but we are committed to...
Until recently, the task of generating reports through the Web from an application written in Lazarus was, let’s say, very creative. Today we are pleased to announce the release of client-server components for Lazarus in beta testing. They can be used to create and customise a server for remot...
Someone might not know, but the PDF standard allows you to create fillable forms. That is, the finished document can be edited directly from the viewer. This is most often used for questionnaires and various forms. The user fills in the fields and sends the document by email or prints it. Today we ...