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Whats new:+ added d2006(DeXter) packages and compatibility+ Danish, Portuguese language added+ joins between fields of the compatible types+ Designer saves its own position and size- fixed for order by DESC of any field- fixed 'Control has no parent window.' error in Delphi 5 ...

At 7th of February I took a part in Embarcadero webinar RAD Studio Reporting with FastReport. Here you can see my presentation video Thanks to all attendees for participation and for questions! We got set of different interesting questions. I think answers will be useful for all. Here there are: Q: How can you do mail merges with FastReports? A: What do you mean? You can mail exported reports directly form fastreport. Q: well... it's pleasure for me to meet young brains here. interesting to hear your opinion about Fast Report vs Rave Report A: I am afraid my opinion about such comparison can not be absolutely correct. I am interest to show FastReport as the leadersip reporting tool.  Q: If we have a report that requires input parameters how do we pass parametrs to the report? Eg I have to pass year 2012 and State = VA A: You can use Report variables for this(see th ...

Few believed in the success of the new open-source ASP.Net Core framework from Microsoft. It’s all because of the low popularity of the previous ASP.Net platform. However, very soon everyone appreciated the advantages of the new cross-platform framework. Nowadays ASP.Net Core occupies a high position in the ranking of the best frameworks for web development. Many web applications, websites and online stores are created using it. When selling goods, online stores must provide the customers with some documentation. For example, the payment invoice. The payment invoice is one of the documents often required for non-cash payments. Therefore, if you are creating an online store or other sales system, you will have to provide your customers with invoices. To render the invoice, first we need to develop a document design, fill it with data and send it to print. The best solution would be to use a report generator to create a document template and populate it with data ...

In today's world, the ability to provide your software to customers around the globe is of great importance. Therefore, FastReport VCL supports about 40 of the most widely spoken languages for localizing the user interface.  Starting from version 2023.2, the localization mechanism in FastReport VCL has been significantly improved — it is no longer necessary to reco ...

With the FastReport .NET 2022.3.12 update, document and report conversion from JasperReports to FastReport .NET is now available. Users can now quickly import a template from JasperReports with maximum accuracy into .frx format for FastReport .NET, FastReport Mono and FastReport CoreWin. The resulted report may have some differences, also most likely this report will need to be refined - changing the properties of objects and adding connections. You can see the advantages of FastReport products in comparison with JasperReports ...

Today we will talk about the cases when you need to make a PDF document, but there is no Adobe Acrobat on the computer. You only have a text file with original data and FastReport Desktop. To begin with, you need a test file, in which there is a division into paragraphs (carriage return to a new line). Such a data source will allow you to use paragraphs as data strings. Now let's create a report in the designer. Create a new data source:   Note the Separator field. By the way, you can enter any character that does not exist in the document, and this will allow you to use carriage return at the end of each paragraph as a separator. Then select the column Field0: In the data window appeared a source with one field:   ...

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 need in special equipment to read – these are the main advantages of the QR code that made it popular all over the world. Swiss authorities also decided to use QR codes to secure electronic payments. This means that all payment receipts and bills will have these codes. In this regard, Swiss QR code support appeared in the FastReport.Net report generator and although Swiss QR is just a kind of QR code, it is used in a specific form of Swiss bill. It is quite simple and contains information about: payee, payer, invoice, payment link and amount. Let’s create a report template for a Swiss QR bill. ...

We have release new version of documentation for FastReport for Delphi and FastReport Studio in PDF-format. ...

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 a stored procedure in SQL query, but only for a specific table. This means that it will take only a first set of data returned by the stored procedure. To generate multiple tables of the results of a stored procedure, we need to create a data source software in the code of a custom application. You need to create a database connection, execute the stored procedure, and enter its results into the dataset. Then we transfer dataset to the report and record the data source in the report. In this way, in the designer we will receive the prepared data source when making the report. We can go further and programmatically connect to the report source, so it's already in the data tree. But ...