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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 remote report generation and exporting, while your program and Web browser can act as a client. The client-server components in VCL FastReport were implemented long ago, but before that they had not been adapted for Lazarus and operated only in Rad Studio Delphi and C++Builder. The article will be useful not only for those who have never used them before, but also for those who want to migrate their FR server to Linux, as it honestly describes all the advantages and disadvantages. We also discovered a problem in Lazarus itself and found the way to solve it. And now let’s move on to the technical side of the issue. ...

In this release, we focused on long-awaited features that greatly simplify developing report templates. The following are now available to you: custom line styles, changing the shape of the "Picture" object, setting up hotkeys, support for the ODBC connector, and much more.     New opportunities Improved work with the Table object Working with the report designer has become easier and more convenient. There are new capabilities for working with the "Table" object. 1. Quickly add columns and rows. If you point to a row boundary to the left of the table or a column boundary at the top, a conditional display will appear showing where a new row or column will be added. There is also a button that, when clicked, will add a new row or column to the table. ...

FastReport Viewer is a free tool for viewing and printing prepared reports.  FastReport Viewer now supports all modern FastReport formats: .fp3 and .fpx.  Works on Windows, macOs and Linux.   Download for free ...

I would like to note that FastReport VCL is one of the most convenient components for generating reports of any complexity. After all, here we can use not only different types of DBMS, but also Swiss barcodes, maps, tables, graphs and many other objects. Quite often we are asked “how to create one single report out of several?”. Well, easy! Look! For this purpose, FastReport has a function that helps to create a new report in addition to the previously generated one. The TfrxReport.PrepareReport method has one optional ClearLastReport:Boolean parameter, which by default is True. This parameter determines whether the pages of the previously built report should be cleared. There is one small detail. When creating the first report, you use a DataSet from one database, when creating the second report – from another. An example of building a combined report: ...

+ added new Delphi for .NET demo+ added new C# demo: Report client for FastReport Server+ added new C# demo: Picture - shows how to use IfrxPictureView interface+ added new interface IfrxPictureView+ improved interface (new buttons, splash and startup window)+ added scheduler service (you can schedule your report and receive it by e-mail)+ added configuration utility+ added context help in designer (F1 key)+ added method LoadPreparedReportFromStream(IStream *) to TfrxPreviewX+ added method SavePreparedReportToStream(IStream *) to TfrxReport+ added new interface:  IfrxDataBand* fixed C++ demos: variable demo, callback demo* updated C++ thread_test demo* updated C# DataSetDemo: added FrxDataSet class* updated C++ ...

We often receive demands for Premium paid support that would include solving the unusual requests. And we are glad to announce that since today we are offering 4 new corporate service plans:“All-Hope-Is-Gone Report”Psychological counselling in case of “Nothing is working!”, “Oh no! Crash!” or “It's all up!”“Night-Of-Strange-Cravings Report”Customer can request for any kind of strange feature (e.g. a video in your report) and we'll get it done over the night.“Careless-ToR Report”We will do the terms of reference for you. What the heck, we'll even write the actual program for you, with all the features and reports!“Gremlin Report”Via FedEx we ship you a personal Gremlin, who will scare off the fails. You won't have to feed him and he also can live in a box he came in. ...

As for Delphi applications, we understand that we are talking about applications implemented in VCL (Visual Component Library) for the Windows operating system. The popularity of Delphi VCL slightly faded with the advent of the C and .Net platform but there are lots of Delphi developers all around the world. Many applications are written in VCL and need to be modernized. If you are implementing an accounting information system for goods turnover, you will need to generate some documents from the application. This can be reports, sales and cashier’s checks, invoices. In this article we will look at the whole process of printing an invoice from creating an application to report displaying. We will use the Delphi 7 development environment to create the application, and the FastReport VCL report generator to create the report. The work on the application comes down to adding the necessary components to the form and setting them up. Find the FastRepo ...

Do you have a celebration on the occasion of the wedding? Do you need to print a lot of invitations? This can be quite a tedious task. Indeed, in each invitation will have to enter the names of the guests. In this article I will show you how to solve this problem with FastReport. We need to compile an Excel spreadsheet with the names and surnames of the guests being planned. For example, this:   One line is the family, namely a male name, female name, surname. Save the file with the extension csv. Now we are going to create a report, open the designer. You must create a new data source in the report.   Then we mark all fields of the data source: ...

v2.3 ============== + added "scripts" folder for additional units ("uses" directive in report script) + added logs for scheduler (add info in scheduler.log) + added property "Reports" - "Scripts" in server configuration - set the path for "uses" directive in report script + added property "Http" - "MaxSession" in server configuration - set the limit of maximum session threads, set 0 for unlimit + added property "Reports" - "MaxReports" in server configuration - set the limit of maximum report threads, set 0 for unlimit + added property "Logs" - "SchedulerLog" in server configuration - set the scheduler log file name + added property "Scheduler" - "Active" in server configuration - enable of scheduler + added property "Scheduler" - "Debug" in server configuration - ...

About three years ago, we added a new special component called Transports. They enable to save built reports to the cloud, as well as use files in the cloud (for example, pictures) to build reports. Until now, there were 4 cloud transports: Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and 2 non-cloud transports: Email and FTP. You can read how to set up cloud transports here and how to use files from the cloud ...