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If you have Delphi XE 7 - get your FastCube VCL 2!
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:00:00 -0500

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 – there's one more chance to receive FastCube VCL 2 with 25% discount! Get it here before March 31 - http://www.fast-report.com/en/promo/cubediscount




Online Delphi courses bit Time Academy
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500

Fast Reports is a proud media partner of bit Time Academy online in-depth Delphi training which will take place from 10th to 13th of February presented by bit Time Software.

The training will help you improve productivity, quality, robustness and elegance of code.

Read all about it and sign up at www.bittime.it/update_online


Fast Reports in Embarcadero Technologies series of webinars
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500

On February 13th Fast Reports will take part in Embarcadero Technologies series of webinars “Embarcadero Technology Partner Spotlights”, where our lead developer Denis Zubov will tell you all about rapid report development with FastReport.

Presentation will be followed by Q&A session.

Sign up at http://forms.embarcadero.com/14Q1TechPartnerSpotlights

New version FastReport VCL 5.2 is released
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500

New version of FastReport VCL 5.2 includes a number of changes.

Lazarus:

Added support of free cross-platform development environment Lazarus. It's the first beta-version that includes designer and preview. New opportunities will be added later, as for now we offer to try it and give us your feedback.

 

SVG:

Popular vector image format widely used over the Internet is now available in FastReport exports. SVG's main advantage involves maintaining picture quality through enlargement of any of its part. It is useful when creating maps, big charts or diagrams.

 

RAD Studio XE7:

Added support of the new version of RAD Studio XE7.

 

Designer:

Improvement of the reports inheritance and quality synchronizing of the templates. Added some new options of working with data tree such as multi-selection, dragging and editing.

 

Export:

Transparency and color mask in PDF.


We've translated Fast Report 5 User manual to Portuguese and it can be downloaded here: http://www.fast-report.com/public_download/files/FR5UserManual-br.pdf



+ Added Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7 support for x32 and x64 windows platforms
+ Added initial support of Lazarus for Fast Report 5 - first beta release with includes ther report designer and the report preview.
+ Added new export filter to SVG format - SVG is a graphical vector format used in web and now FastReport allow you to export reports to this format.
+ Added ability to reset object properties to parents in inherited report (whole report or single object) - ability to restore object properties of any object in inherited report to default values introduced in base report.
+ Added multi-selection for data tree and ability to drag whole dataset(create band) - allow to drag any count of fields from "data tree" or/and include whole dataset.
+ Added ability to move/select/edit report objects from report tree window - new enhanced "report objects tree" gives ability to select move and edit objects more easily.
+ Added transparency and color mask in PDF export (Pictures/HTML-tags/RTF) - pictures and some objects like RTF may uses alpha mask during export to PDF.
+ Added selection mode in report designer - new selection modes allow to select all object of the same kind as selected.
+ Changed preview tabs mechanism. TfrxPreview.EachReportInTab allow to bind few report components to a single preview and show each in the separate tab.
+ [enterprise] Added new Enterprise demo to show how to build client application for mobile platform in FMX framework - learn how you can build a mobile client for FastReport Enterprise edition.
+ Improved variables and styles editor to handle new inheritence items
+ Added export of page frame in PDF
+ Added cell rotation in XLSX and DOCX exports filters
+ Added packages for IBO4 for D2005-XE3
- [enterprise] Fixed unicode problems in FR Server navigator toolbar
- Fixed TfrxFontComboBox now uses TfrxReport.iniFile for saving data
- Fixed FireDac components compatibility for XE7
- Fixed align of text in DOCX export
- Fixed Indy SMTP mail transfer
- Fixed frxTeeChart problem in multy-threaded inviroment
- Fixed error with export of 2d barcode from code
- Fixed problem with new DBX behaviour in master detail reports starts from Delphi XE
- Fixed problem with KeepFooter in subreports
- Fixed DateTime format in BIFF export
- Fixed preview window flickering with drilldown reports
- Fixed text align fix for negative LineSpacing
- Fixed minor problems with report inheritance
- Fixed preview error which may appears during preparing crosstab
- Fixed TIFF export problem when using Stream
- Fixed problem with crosstab header resizing in some cases
- Fixed problem with minimizing report designer in application compiled with delphi 2010 and above
- Fixed visibility of several components for x64 platform
- Fixed script inheritance in reports when used fsGlobalModule
- Fixed OnLoadTemplate and OnGetUnit events for inherited report
- Fixed OnPreviewDblClick event
- Fixed missing Fill property for some objects
- Fixed double frames in PDF export
- Fixed font embedding problem with x64 platform
- Fixed incorrect preview behaviour in some cases
- Fixed PDF checkbox export
- Fixed EAN13 barcode bug
- Fixed numeric formats in XLSX export
- Fixed TabOrder in frxEditPage
- Added missing bcCode128 support in report script
- Restored published Color property for TfrxSysMemoView

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Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500

FastReport.Net 2015 with online web report designer
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:00:00 -0500

New version of FastReport.Net 2015.1 inclided new online designer web-components. We started developing online designer for our users who want more opportunities in corporate reporting. You can open and construct report-templates and reports with this tool in any modern browser. Online designer works quickly and smoothly even on slow devices and this is definitely its strongest side. You can try here: online visual report designer.  Do not forget to test in on tab computers!
The online designer is available in Professional Edition only. You can get upgrade to highest edition in customer panel.

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Report construction becomes more pleasant and comfortable with each new version of FastReport. We added new interface styles and Ribbon toolbar in v. 2015.1. New styles: Office 2010 (Silver), Office 2010 (Blue), Office 2010 (Black), Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 (Light), Office 2013.

ribbon

Others features:

+ added RESTful service in FastReport.Service.dll

REST

+ added new Aztec, Plessey barcode

aztec

+ added GS1-128 (formerly known as UCC-128 or EAN-128) barcode.
Currently supports only numeric values.
+ added new properties in WebReport: DesignReport, DesignScriptCode,
DesignerPath, DesignerSavePath,
DesignerSaveCallBack, PrintInBrowser, SinglePage
+ added property CSVExport.NoQuotes that disables quotation marks in CSV export
* updated demos
\Demos\C#\MvcRazor,\Demos\C#\WCFWebService,\Demos\C#\WCFWebClient
* updated japanese, greek resources
- fixed bug with export in PDF/A
- fixed bug in WebReport with 'Access to the path \FastReport\ is denied'
- fixed bug with memory leak in PDF export
- fixed bug with Gauge object in Word 2007 export
- reduced memory consumption in WebReport
- fixed bug with caching of report results by browser in WebReport

FastCube FMX for FireMonkey
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:00:00 -0500

FastCube FMX is a tool for effective data analysis for FireMonkey.

- Supports Embarcadero Delphi/C++Builder XE4, XE5, XE6, XE7
- You can integrate it to applications for MS Windows and Apple Mac OS X.
- Instant data slices creation. You can load data from SQL queries or custom sources
- All basic statistical operations (count, sum, minimum, maximum, average, variance, etc.)
- Special functions (number of unique values, first value, list of unique values)
- Filters for measured values
- Automatic component layout of date and time
- Unlimited number of measures in a summary table
- Possible to put data into table columns or table rows, as well as on any level of measurements
- Calculated data (based on FastScript)
- Calculated filters for numeric data by using output formatting
- Calculated filters for values when calculating data (based on FastScript)
- Numeric data display control by using output formatting
- Numeric data output as a value or as percent (in a row, column, group or table total)
- Possible to use data of Date, Time and Row type
- Conditional highlighting of cell value in a slices (in a range)
- Possible to minimize measurements as a whole as well as separate values
- Possible to control the display of totals
- Control of axis sorting (according to measurement value or data)
- Control of each level of measurement sorting (line of sorting)
- Possible to group values of dimension
- Top-N
- Saving of templates (schemas) and data itself for future use
- Export of FastCube's slices to Excel or HTML
- Copying of a highlighted range to the clipboard
- Reviewing and exporting slices cell details
- Cube's/data cube's export to XML formats : XML for Analysis, xml-msdata, ms rowset or DataPacket
- Printing by means of FastReport FMX
- Graph construction by means of TeeChart for FireMonkey
- Recompile Wizard

Fast Reports on CodeRage 9
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:00:00 -0400

Recently we had a session on CodeRage 9 about FastReport server.

The session covers how you can easily build a server application and view your reports from browser.

Also that session discovers how you can build server client application for mobiles using TWebBrowser component from FireMonkey framework.

For all who watched the session and interesting in examples showed in the session you can download then from here:

Delphi demos

C++ Builder Demos

New version of FastCube VCL 2.2
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:00:00 -0400

There was a long time without new release of FastCube VCL. By the way it has a lot innovations and improvements. So what's new:

+ Added support of Embarcadero Rad Studio XE7 (Delphi XE7/C++Builder XE7)
+ Added support of Embarcadero Rad Studio XE6 (Delphi XE6/C++Builder XE6)
+ Added properties Distinct and DistinctField into Measure editor
+ Added: System counter can use Distinct and DistinctField

+ Added checking the number of rows and columns in Excel 97-2003 export
+ Added property TfcxSlice.ClearUnattachedFieldsFilter: Boolean and function TfcxSlice.ResetUnattachedFieldsFilter: boolean (Reset filters in fields not placed in Axis or Filters)
+ Сase insensitive compare in TfcxSliceFields.IndexOfField
+ Added properties TfcxMeasureField.Distinct: Boolean, TfcxMeasureField.DistinctForTotal: Boolean and
TfcxMeasureField.SliceField2: TfcxSliceField. It allows check uniqueness of values of additional field during calculation
+ Added support of ftSingle fields
+ Added property TfcxAxisContainer.DimValue[ALevel: TfcxSmallCount; AVisIndex: Integer]: variant
+ Added property TfcxDataSource.UseOnlyVisibleFields

+ Added property TfcxSliceGridToolbar.DialogsDefaultPath for Save/Open dialogs.
+ Added TMeasure.ColOffsetTotalValueForDims[Offset: integer; ADimNames:String]: Variant and TMeasure.RowOffsetTotalValueForDims[Offset: integer; ADimNames: String]: Variant
+ Refactor code to split non-visual part from visual part

+ Added editor for additional calculated total into Dimension editor
+ Added Axis editor

+ Speedup filters loading

+ Added compatibility with FastCube 2 FMX

+ Added Croatian translation by Kresimir Majdenic
+ Added German translation by Thomas Werling
+ Added Italian translation by Augusto Pellis

- Fixed error in Excel 97-2003 export

- Fixed error with size of filter region
- Fixed error in TMeasure.ColOffsetValue[Offset: integer]: Variant, TMeasure.RowOffsetValue[Offset: integer]: Variant and TMeasure.ColRowOffsetValue[ColOffset, RowOffset: integer]: Variant
- Fixed error: wrong filter setting after loading filter in some case.
- Fixed errors: AV with property CreateAllCells in calculation measure when all measures are calculation
- Fixed error: wrong measure values in some cases during script calculation
- Fixed errors: AV in TfcxSliceGrid not linked with TfcxSlice
- Fixed error: AV after editing measure
- Fixed error: AV in export
- Fixed error: AV during adding measure when TopN is active
- Fixed error with national characters in incremental search
- Fixed error with TIBBCDField
- Fixed errors in property TfcxSlice.FieldsOrder

- Fixed error: AV after the field drop to an axis with an expanded group
- Fixed: OK button was not translated in Information dialog
- Fixed property spelling (was ArgFuncs become AgrFuncs)
- Fixed status zone popup menu checks

- Fixed error: AV in TfcxSlice.InternalSetSelectedVis
- Fixed error in SliceGrid styles applying (memory corruption)

New version of FastReport.Net 2014.4
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:00:00 -0400

Great reason to order licence or re-enroll support and updates - a lot of improvements in the new version of FastReport.Net 2014.4.

 

+ added an AutoSave feature in a Designer, you can enable it and set a time interval in View-Options-Saving

Auto Save report template recovery window

+ added picture editor in a Designer, now pictures can be resized, cropped and modified to grayscale or monochrome

Internal picture preprocessor for reports
+ added "Enable Code Completion" checkbox in Code Page Options in a Designer
+ added selection of multiple objects with CTRL key in a Designer
+ added proportionally scaling of objects with SHIFT in a Designer
+ added selection of barcode type on a toolbar in a Designer
+ added text editor for barcodes

Report Barcode Editor

+ added support of encodings Windows-1251, cp866 in QR-code object
+ added transparency of the image in PDF export
+ added compliance of PDF/A-2a,b and PDF/A-3a,b in PDF export
+ added new property PDFExport.PdfACompliance 
(can be selected from PdfAStandard.PdfA_2a, PdfAStandard.PdfA_2b, PdfAStandard.PdfA_3a, PdfAStandard.PdfA_3b)
+ added options for selection of PDF/A compliance, Jpeg quality, Initial Zoom in PDF export dialog

New options of PDF export filter

+ added support of dialog objects ListBoxControl, CheckedListBoxControl in WebReport
* improved speed of PDF export with transparent images (now it became three times faster)
- fixed bug in Designer with save from code editor (save icon is not active after code change)
- fixed bug with band break
- fixed bug with single page export in PDF