Jochen Bartlau 
A missing barcode type can quickly turn a straightforward reporting task into extra application code. Whether it is a shipping label, product identifier, pharmaceutical workflow, postal document, or migrated List & Label template, developers often have to support barcode requirements defined by external systems or standards.
List & Label Cross Platform 31 introduces PDF-based physical printing for server-side and automated workflows. Generated reports can now be sent directly from an application to a physical or network printer — without a desktop UI, print dialog, or preview window.
List & Label Cross Platform 31 can now render checkbox objects both as standalone report elements and inside tables. This provides a clearer way to display boolean values and reduces the need for workarounds when migrating existing List & Label reports.
Desktop business applications eventually hit the same reporting problem: users want new reports, PDF exports, Excel output, print previews, and layout changes without waiting for another release. For development teams, that usually means a choice between piling up custom export code or building a reporting framework from scratch. List & Label offers a more practical option: embed reporting directly into your WinForms or WPF application while keeping control of your data, permissions, and user experience. This guide shows how to integrate it in a way that is practical, scalable, maintainable, and built for real-world line-of-business software.
With List & Label 31, exporting reports to cloud storage becomes significantly more flexible. Instead of temporarily storing reports locally and then processing them further via a custom upload process, export is now possible directly to modern cloud storage targets. As soon as applications run in containers, on servers, or generally in more distributed environments, local file paths quickly become impractical.
Why a new rendering engine? PDF documents have long since ceased to be used “only” as a pure export format in List & Label. In … Read more
AI is everywhere—and now it’s in your report designer, too. With a quite simple AI$() designer function, you can embed the power of OpenAI or other LLMs … Read more
In the world of server-based reporting, there are often challenges in connection with different time zones. The complexity increases in particular when the database server, the … Read more
With the new “Apply immediately” property for report parameters, you no longer have to click “Refresh” manually every time: as soon as you change a parameter with this option enabled, List & Label automatically re-renders your report. It saves you time, streamlines your workflow, and delivers an intuitive user experience—both on desktop and on the web.
A very popular wish from our Idea Place is finally fulfilled in version 30 – SVG files are optionally output as vectors.
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