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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...

Without reporting it is impossible to carry on business in any sphere of life. Bureaucracy is an irresistible part of human society. Whether it's steel plant or a school facultative - reports are needed everywhere: accounting, statistical, operational. Since the modern world strongly computerized - ...

It is difficult to imagine data analysis without OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) technology. Although there are differing opinions about whether OLAP should be considered a technology or ideology. After all, OLAP can be imagined as a complex multi-dimensional cube, and as ordinary cross-tables ...

Previously, there were several articles about converting QuickReport 6 and ReportBuilder 19 templates to *.fr3 format. But this is all inconvenient and requires additional effort to create a project and connect additional modules and creates difficulties when converting templates in bulk. We decid...

Today we will look at migration from QuickReport 6 to FastReport VCL. Let's do it with the updated Converter included in FastReport VCL, it allows you to convert your template, even without QuickReport 6 installed on your computer. Converter (ConverterQR2FR.pas) has the following list of convert...

Today we will look at migration from ReportBuilder 19 to FastReport VCL. Let's do it with the updated Converter included in FastReport VCL, it allows you to convert your template, even without ReportBuilder 19 installed on your computer. Converter (ConverterQR2FR.pas) has the following list of ...

Perform the following list of actions: 1. Create a new application (File -> New -> VCL Forms Application). 2. Enter in the Uses clause module ConverterQR2FR (for convert QuickReport) or ConverterRB2FR (for convert ReportBuilder). 3. Depending on the installed components, you may ne...

First of all you need to download the program from the developer’s site https://www.fast-report.com/en/download/public_files/267/ Run the installer. First we will see the welcome window. Click Next to continue the installation. In the second step, we are invited to read the license terms....

The name FastCube has occurred, as you understand, from FastReport and the cube. FastReport - a family of report generators for different platforms, and a cube - OLAP structure. The abbreviation OLAP means - online analytical processing. But why the cube? It is simple, if in the usual summary table...

Printing labels is one sphere of application of report generators. In this article, we will look at some aspects of creating a report with labels. In label reports, data headers are usually placed in a column, rather than in a row, as usual. What does it mean? I will show you by an example. Here i...

We usually download and save reports on a local drive when working with a desktop application. An alternative to this is the client server application. The reports will be stored on a remote server. But, what if there is no way to deploy a remote server, and you want to store reports on a shared res...

Fast Report 6 pleased us with an updated export engine. This affected the export of compound objects, such as charts, maps, RichText. Earlier these objects were exported as a picture, but now a vector representation of objects and text is used. This means the scaling of objects does not affect the q...

Interactive maps have become very popular with the appearance of Google Maps. They allow you to navigate the map, zoom in and out, and many other functions. With the release of FastReport VCL 6, such maps can be embedded in reports. To do this, you must obtain a map in one of the two available forma...

Some objects in FR VCL 6 can be edited in the report viewer, that is, in the .fp3 format. After changing the objects, you can save the modified report in a preview format or export it to any other format. When can this be useful? For example, you do not have a report template, but there is only a pr...

In the article "How to display the totals in a group header in FastReport VCL 6" we examined how to use the Processing property for the "Text" object. However, this property is also typical for the other objects: Chart, Gauge and Barcode. Today, we'll look at applying the Processing property in the ...

Each report designer encounters a situation where it is necessary to arrange controls at the same level, or to stretch a group of elements at once. It is necessary to adjust each member to each other. It takes time, and sometimes nerves. In previous FR VCL versions we were offered a grid that facili...

One of the new features appeared in FastReport VCL 6 is the ability to display the grouping results in the header bands. Previously, you could only display the results after grouping. If the group is large enough, you have to scroll it down to find out the result. It is much more convenient to print...

In my opinion, a very useful innovation in FastReport VCL 6 is the Table object. Previously, we only had a cross-table, which in fact was a matrix. And we need the matrix in specific reports. There was not enough ordinary table, which is convenient for scaling and moving fields. All the data in one ...

In this article we are going to examine one of the latest features of FastReport VCL 5 - interactive diagrams. With the help of them one can display a detailed report for the selected area of a graph. How it works First, you create a chart. For example, a circular one: The chart is divided int...

There have been many innovations in FastReport VCL 5 recently. One of them is new hyperlink options. Now a hyperlink can point on the other report or a report page. Due to this option, we can make interactive reports. An example of such a report with hyperlinks detailing the report is shown in the a...