Many users of report generators are interested in setting up the toolbar when reviewing the report. Such questions appear periodically on forums and questionnaires. Like this user of the DevExpress report generator who wants to customize the web report toolbar ASP.Net MVC. In some cases, the user w...

Report designer is replete with lots of features that many users do not use. Sometimes the variety of icons and menus only distracts. Therefore, many users would like to have a simplified version of the report designer with only the functions they need. This, the report designer can be customized to...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

Sorting data is one of the most important data processing tools. We can say, it is the basis of the analysis. Analysing chaotic output data is almost impossible. Therefore, sorting provides all the tools that work with data. This also applies to reporting tools. After all, the data source may provid...

When you create reports, you often need to transfer some values from outside. This is to filter the data into the report, or to manage the logic of the report. In my practice of using FastReport.Net, I often encounter this need. Since I mostly work with web reports, I pass the parameters into the re...

When making the report, we want it to be "friendly" to the consumers as much as possible. Too much data and design elements processing makes people's understanding of information more unfavourable. As a result, many people want to delete spaces in a table without data. FastReport.Net report generato...

Gentlemen, jokes aside! Today we are talking about toilet paper. This essential hygiene product was only recently developed in the United States in the 19th century. But to be honest, toilet paper was first mentioned in China as early as the 6th century, but this product was only available for a nar...

As you probably know, reports in FastReport.Net can be created not only in a special designer, but also from the code of the user application. At the same time, instead of the usual file with frx extension, you will get a class of report. It can be converted into a library and used in different proj...

Sybase SQL Anywhere database has a number of very useful features that make it very competitive in comparison with competitors. First, it allows you to handle very large volumes of data. Secondly - it is highly productive, that is, despite the offer large volumes of data fast. Thirdly it requires mi...

The main report viewing tool FastReport.Net is Viewer. This viewer has a rich toolkit for storing, exporting, printing, and other manipulations with a report. All this variety is very useful but not always necessary. For example, for users who only view and print reports export emailing is absolute...

Quite often there is a need to set various images in the report depending on any conditions or input parameters. This problem was encountered by the user of the List & Label report generator: Is there a way to programmatically insert an inline image into a List & Label document from .net co...

Sometimes your work needs one and the same report, but with a few changes. For example, different headers for different departments. So, for example, a user of the ActiveReports report generator wants to create such a report: For example, the user select copies for the customer and for administrati...

The theme for this article was one of the questions users of the generator List & Label reporting on the support forum. I need to create a package of documents into 1 PDF file. So far I am able to create individual PDF file but I am not sure how to combine them. Can LL21 do this or I need to fi...

Many modern report generators allow you to embed another report, the so-called sub-report. Why would you do that? For example, for the convenience of designing a report. If the main report and sub-report have a different type, it is easier to create them separately. In addition, by dividing the rep...

Most report generators have a report-viewing mode with a toolbar from which you can make various manipulations of the report. For example, flipping through pages, printing, exporting and more. However, sometimes there is not enough buttons with any functionality. This can be a quick export to some f...

An important part of the report is a graphical component, namely graphs and charts. They allow you to quickly analyse the data to assess the trend of growth or fall, or just quickly read information. That is how human perception works, that the graphic information is received more quickly. Therefore...