List & Label Reporting Blog

Reporting sounds simple until it has to generate invoices, statements, customer PDFs, and scheduled exports reliably across containers, tenants, and production workloads. At that point, reporting stops being a side feature and starts becoming backend infrastructure — which means the real challenge is no longer how to generate a PDF, but how to build a reporting service that is stateless, scalable, and easy to run in modern environments.

Most .NET teams don’t set out to build a reporting subsystem that needs rescuing. But “just generate a few PDFs” can quietly become a tangle of layout logic, export workarounds, and growing technical debt—until someone says, “We have to replace this.” Here’s how to spot that pattern early, and how to avoid backing your application into a reporting rewrite later.

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

Service Pack 30.004 for List & Label and the Report Server is now available. This update focuses on performance improvements for exports, usability enhancements in the Web Report Designer, and several security updates for third-party libraries.

Service Pack 31.001 for List & Label introduces official support for ZUGFeRD 2.4 PDF exports, adds nested tables and enhanced contrast optimization to cross-platform text rendering, improves performance and stability across designers and exports, and delivers multiple security updates for Web Components and third-party libraries.

If you’ve connected large and complex data sources in the Web Report Designer, you’re probably familiar with the problem: the DataTree seems to load forever with complex data structures. With List & Label 31, that’s a thing of the past. The technical foundation of the DataTree has been completely overhauled. “react-arborist” replaces “rc-tree” – and the result is a significantly smoother reporting experience in the browser.

With the release of version 31 of List & Label in October 2025, full support for the current ZUGFeRD/Factur-X standard 2.3 will be available. The upcoming version 2.4 – already announced for Q4/2025 – will also be supported via service packs for List & Label 31. This makes List & Label a future-proof solution for digital, legally compliant e-invoicing across Germany and Europe.

Since version 30, the Web Report Designer supports drilldowns. This allows you to implement interactive reports entirely in the browser – including navigation between different detail levels. This feature was previously only available in the desktop designer.

The latest service pack 30.003 for List & Label adds Windows 11 25H2 support, introduces a new datastructure tree component in the Web Report Designer, improves performance for large projects, and increases the maximum number of print passes to 1000.

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