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Despite the fact that FastReport.Net provides us with a plugin for the report designer to use as a data source for the JSON file, it is not always suitable. This plugin works well with single-level data representing a separate table. In cases where the data has multiple levels of nesting, you will have to try another solution.  For example, using the Newtonsoft.Json library - with its help you can get data from JSON, make a list from them and register it in a report from code.  Let's look at everything with an example. Create a WinForms application. With the help of NuGet Manager, install the Newtonsoft.Json package. In Reference, add a link to the library FastReport.dll. Suppose we have sales data for managers in stores. All these data are in one file, but in fact they are three different entities: a store, a manager, a sale. This will be our json file for this example: ...

We have excellent news for you! New version of FastReport FMX can work with Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5. You need upgrade your FastReport FMX via cpanel for 30% discount. Users who bought a product for last 6 month will get this version for free! Full change list:  + Added support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 (iOS not supported) for both Delphi and C++Builder developing environment + Added PDF export for both OSX and WIn platforms including font embedding/links/outlines + Added support of C++Builder for OSX platform (some properties changed to Double type from extended) + Added FireDac internal components+ Added TeeChart Pro packages support+ Added font editor dialog- Improved speed in the report designer when editing reports with many objects- Fixed Styles editor in the report designer- Fixed export of wrapped text- Fixed chart printing ...

Few people know that FastReport .NET report generator allows you to quickly convert an RTF document into any other format supported by the FastReport .NET report generator. For example, you have a number of documents in RTF format and you would like to convert them into another format or just create electronic report based on them. Now the process of a report creation becomes much simpler – you actually have a ready document. Let us see how it works by an example. Take an original RTF document: ...

This update includes improvements and fixes for our entire line of Delphi and Lazarus products. One of the main features of this update is the new package with visual components TfrTreeView. The new TfrTreeView allows you to quickly create your custom equivalents of TreeView, expanding the functionality of your application. Compared to the standard TreeView, our component has fast and convenient navigation, collapsing and expanding the tree of thousands of elements. This enhances the responsiveness of your application's interface for end users. And, of course, TfrTreeView is supported in both VCL and Lazarus!   FastReport VCL You can experience the responsiveness of the interface in the FastReport VCL report designer when working with a large amount of data or objects, thanks to the use of the new TfrTreeView component. ...

New documentation for FastReport 3!In HTML (On-line and archive), PDF, CHM, Help-file available:Programmer's manual, User manual, Developer's manual, Client-Server (Enterprise) programmer's manual.  ...

We are pleased to announce PayPal as a new customer payment method. PayPal payments can now be accepted through the RegNow shopping carts.It is enough to choose " Payment Method: PayPal " on the page of registration.Links for purchase via PayPal: ...

BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF – there is a variety of raster image formats. 1. BMP First of all, you should know that since BMP is an old image format it is not so popular among Internet users, only the bitmap images are saved in this format which doesn’t support the vector ones. The size of .bmp files can differ, depending on the quality of the images. Despite the fact that users consider the BMP format obsolete, it is actively used in many spheres. For example, all Windows interfaces were based on this format. Why exactly BMP? Because it is convenient to use when creating images that do not lose quality after editing them. BMP is often used in Photoshop when editing images, this format is also easy to upload to social networks and various websit ...

If you bought Delphi XE 7 from September 2014 to January 2015 then you know that it was additionally supplied with FastCube VCL 2. This special offer is over now but we know that some of you are still having difficulties installing the free FastCube. We decided that everyone should be able to use the benefits of full version of FastCube 2. We want all of you to receive access to FastCube VCL 2 along with Delphi XE7 even if it wasn't installed right away. Just visit your customer panel at cp.fast-report.com and get your FastCube 2. In case you missed the special offer &ndas ...

Lately many countries have been digitizing payment processes. 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 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 add a Swiss QR code to the report template. ...