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A lot of new things in  FastReport VCL and FastReport for Lazarus In this version we added filtration of Variables and Functions tabs in “Data Tree”.                         It possible to hide all panels in “Data Tree” now.   It possible to use filter for fast search of the report objects in “Report Tree”.     Added new linear barcode type – Pharmacode. ...

Sometimes there is a need to use parts of one report in another. In simple cases, you can use report inheritance to do this. For example, there is a case when all reports have common elements (a company logo, signature, etc.). Then these objects can be moved to a parent report and when creating child reports, they will be copied automatically. Thus, you do not need to copy them manually every time which greatly simplifies and speeds up the creation of new reports. In addition, if you change something in the parent report, these changes will also be reflected in all of the child reports. However, report inheritance has a number of limitations. There are cases when a report had one "parent" and it became necessary to make a “parent” a completely different report. It might seem enough to change BaseReport property, but, unfortunately, it won’t work out. Nevertheless, such a problem can b ...

The Knockout.js library is used to create web applications. Due to the support of this library in Microsoft Visual Studio, we can use TypeScript and backend based on ASP .NET Core MVC. The last means that we will be able to use FastReport .NET reports. It remains only to display the report in the client application. That is exactly we will do in this article. To use knockout with .NET Core, you must have .NET Core SDK 2.0 or MS Visual Studio installed. By default, the application template with the knockout library is not available to you. Therefore, you need to install it with just one command. At the Windows command promt, enter: dotnet new — install Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaTemplates::* After that, you can create a spa application based on knockout. In the desired folder, open the command line and enter the command: dotnet new knockout –o KnockWebReport After creating the applica ...

It looks like that lockdown was not hard for Microsoft. This year, the Plenty’s Horn opened and we had a shower with new software products — the long-awaited Windows 11, and the new Visual Studio 22, and, of course, .NET 6.0. This is good news in these bad times. Let's talk about the new product, which is the most interesting for developers — .NET 6.0. Hardly developers ported their projects to NET 5.0 when a new version was released. I will go forward to tell the obvious truth that version 6 is not something fundamentally new - it is the “finished-off” fifth version. Most changes include modified or revised solutions from last year's release, but t ...

We are happy to inform our users that FastReport is included now into the developer solution for one of the most popular open-source databases – Firebird (www.firebirdsql.org). IBPhoenix (www.ibphoenix.com), the main company behind Firebird development, released Firebird Developer Pack 2007, which contains all necessary tools for development applications with Firebird, and as important part includes FastReport Standard Firebird Edition. Using Firebird Developer Pack 2007 and FastReport, Firebird developers now can easily create fast, robust and affordable reporting and business intelligence solutions. ...

New version of FastReport Desktop 2019.3 includes a parameter to change the name of saving file. Also digital signature is added and the font in query editor window can be changed Version 2019.3--------------- [Builder]+ added Save-FileName parameter [Engine]+ added ImageAlign property for image alignment inside PictureObject; by default, alignment is disabled- fixed a bug with infinite loop in AdvancedTextRenderer when WordWrap is true and width of object less than width of one character- fixed a bug when in some cases the TypeConverter`s were not loaded correctly- fixed a bug causing memory leak in HtmlTextRenderer- fixed a bug when using the KeepTogether property for a group with matrix, when in some cases the GroupHeader was placed on one page and the matrix was on another page- fixed image size calculation when AutoSize is enabled in the prepara ...

A new ITF-14 barcode has been added in FastReport VCL 2021.2. Let me remind you that ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, or a high-density code that can encode an even number of digits only. Each such barcode encodes an odd digit with a bar and an even digit with a space between the odd ones. To encode an odd number of digits, you need to pad the leftmost (most significant) digit with a zero. You can read more theoretical information about ITF-14  ...

Recently, the NoSQL database is gaining more and more popularity. They differ favourably from conventional relational databases and provide the following: high resilience, incredibly large amounts of data, good scalability, clustering. One of the new NoSQL databases is RavenDB. This is a document-oriented database, like the popular MongoDB. But compared to the last, RavenDB is an open source database. This means you can use it in your apps for free and add functionality according to your wish. Let's look at the way to connect the RavenDB database in your report. To do this, you need to use a plug-in connector from the supply of Fastreport.Net, which is located in the catalog of the installed program in the folder Extras\Connections\FastReport.RavenDB. We are compiling this project. Now we move to the report designer and add a plug-in to the File->Options menu.   ...

Sometimes you may need to limit the functionality of the report, for example, remove unnecessary export formats from the list in the preview mode. This can be done in your application code. Let’s write a function to delete a report object:   1 2 3 4 5 ...