What reports can Reporting VCL do?
Practically any: invoices, financial reports, product catalogs with color profile support, restaurant menus, sales details, questionnaires with electronic forms, airline tickets, utility bills, and much more. If you have data that needs to be made visually understandable, FastReport is the perfect solution for you.
Features and Benefits
Lots of componentsA variety of elements are available for building reports in the designer: from text and images to mathematical formulas and 3D diagrams.
Quick access to the report and data structure
From the report tree and properties tree, you can edit the report structure, parameters, and filters, as well as data sources with global styles.
Compatibility and integration
Reporting VCL is part of the unified FastReport ecosystem on Delphi. Reports created in the Lazarus solution will work in the Reporting VCL and vice versa.
Smooth transition from other solutions
Our report generator instantly converts your reports from Quick Report, Report Builder, and Rave Reports in FastReport format.
Flexible and open architecture
If FastReport's functionality is not enough for you, you can improve it by creating and connecting your objects (export filters, databases) to your reports.
System.Drawing (GDI)
The familiar System.Drawing with GDI graphics functions is used to create graphical elements, render text, and manage graphic images.
Standalone template designer
A powerful modern editor includes a large set of tools for visual design and modification of report templates. Our flexible architecture allows you to create your editors for both existing objects and new ones. A template designer can be included in your application to provide users with their report design. Localization is supported for more than 30 popular languages of the world.
Reporting VCL is a band-oriented report generator. A rich set of bands allows you to build reports of any type: list, master-detail, report with grouping, multi-column, master-detail-detail, and others. If you need to create many reports that contain the same elements (header, footer, company details, logos), then you can collect common elements into a base report and inherit all other reports from it. We also support the nested reports feature.
Data processing
Reporting VCL supports data sorting and filtering, master-detail relationships. Everything can be configured with a few clicks. It can connect to FireDAC, ADO, BDE, DBX, IBX, and FIBPlus, thus providing access to almost all databases, including Oracle and many third-party libraries.
Your report may contain data (tables, queries, database connections). This way, you can not only use the data available in your application but also independently connect to any database directly from the report. Reporting VCL contains a script engine that supports PascalScript, C++ Script, BasicScript, and JScript.
The report may contain dialog forms to request parameters before the report is built. Dialog controls support the ability to connect to data and then filter it. Filtering can be added to absolutely any report; it does not require writing any code. Using the visual query builder, you don't need to know SQL to build a complex query from multiple tables.
Preview and print
The pre-prepared report can be examined in detail in the Report Viewer's preview window. Our component supports working with parameters, multi-level detailing, and interactive reports. You can define a response to a mouse click on an object in the preview window. For example, you can build and display another report that shows detailed information about the object the user clicked on.
Additional printing settings. The following options are available to you: cutting large report pages into small ones, printing several small pages on one large one, and printing in a given format with scaling. Do you need to print a report containing A3 pages on a regular A4 printer? Now, this is not a problem!
Exports to convenient formats
Filters for exporting the finished report to many formats: PDF, RTF, XLSX, XML, DOCX, TXT, CSV, Excel OLE, PowerPoint, HTML, MHT, XPS, JPEG, BMP, PNG, Open Document Format (ODT, ODS, ODP), XAML, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), ZPL, etc.
Reporting VCL allows you to quickly convert reports with editable fields (such as text fields, combo boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, and graphics fields) into PDF documents without connecting additional libraries. Save your reports in popular formats: PDF 1.4-1.7, PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, which are secure, accessible, and reliable.
