List & Label Reporting Blog

Reporting in Your Applications with Embarcadero RAD Studio

Reporting in Your Applications with Embarcadero RAD Studio

ByDaniel SteinJul 1, 20245 min read
List & Label is a reporting component that integrates with applications to provide them with rich reporting capabilities. It allows developers to create sophisticated reports based on data from any source. Easy data binding for your own VCL applications is provided by List & Label’s FireDAC component, which supports numerous data sources such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQLite, DB2, MySQL and PostgreSQL, as well as many other databases and formats. The control over the data for reporting always remains with the application itself.
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Reset Page Count for Group Header

ByJochen BartlauOct 19, 20161 min read
While List & Label has a superior concept for printing mail merges, many other (usually band-type) reporting tools people got used to apply a different concept to print invoices and other mail merge typed projects. Usually in List & Label, you'd define the header data as variables and use text objects, images etc. to design your letter head.
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Introducing Long Term Support (Enterprise Edition)

ByJochen BartlauOct 13, 20162 min read
We have a release cycle of approximately one year per major version  – actually it's quite accurately so, we have released the past 10 versions late in October. Coincidentially, this happens to be around my birthday, but that's a different story. It's always a nice present anyway.
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Mingling with the Progress Community @ EMEA PUG Challenge

ByJochen BartlauOct 10, 20162 min read
From time to time it's great fun to stray off the beaten .NET path to venture into other developer's hemispheres. This time I paid a visit to the great crowd at the EMEA PUG Challenge in Noordwijk/Netherlands to dig into the Progress community.
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Introducing Enterprise Level Logging Support

ByJochen BartlauOct 6, 20162 min read
For you as an enterprise application developer, logging is probably one of the essential features of your app. It enables you to trace and see what the user did just before the app went blank, and see if the typical user answer "I haven't done anything" proves right or wrong. To support you in this task, logging was built into List & Label from the very start.
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Breakthrough for Web/Distributed Applications

ByJochen BartlauSep 30, 20163 min read
Until version 22, there was a number of restrictions for web based projects. As the Web Designer is a single project file designer, all the glory that comes with multiple project files like project templates, table of contents and index and – most prominently – drilldown support were not available as they couldn't be designed.
Animations for the Preview

Animations for the Preview

ByJochen BartlauSep 21, 20162 min read
Quite a while ago we introduced a full screen presentation mode which allows you a quick presentation of your reports. Why fire up PowerPoint (or any other presentation software) when you just need to present a couple of charts and tables? This way, your presentations are lightweight and always up to date, as you or your end-users can re-create them just in time.
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Sorting Charts by Value

ByJochen BartlauSep 12, 20162 min read
This is one of those "whaaaaat, that didn't work before?" features. No, it didn't. Until version 22, you were only able to sort bar charts with string labels ascending or descending. Alphabetically. Numerics and dates are treated differently, but for strings you only could get A-Z, Z-A or unordered, i.e. in the order the database supplies the data.
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The Treemap Chart Experience

ByJochen BartlauSep 8, 20162 min read
With Treemap charts you can visualize hierarchical data by using nested rectangles in the upcoming version 22 of our List & Label reporting tool. The area of each rectangle is proportional to its value, while the sum of all rectangle areas fills up the whole chart area.
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WPF Wrapper for PreviewControl

ByJochen BartlauSep 1, 20161 min read
Version 22 of List & Label will introduce a new WPF wrapper control for the existing WinForms PreviewControl. While it uses a Windows­Forms­Host at the core, the wrapper is a drag & drop replacement for the existing WPF preview control which will continue to be supported.
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Crosstabs: Expand Sub Tables in the Interactive Preview

ByJochen BartlauAug 17, 20161 min read
As we swiftly proceed through the development process of List & Label 22, we found a slot to add one more feature to the crosstab. Starting in version 19, we've added a lot of interactivity to the preview, including a feature called "Expandable Regions" for the report container. It allows to expand sub tables by just a click. For LL22, we've now extended this feature to the crosstab.