New Service Pack 27.005 for List & Label and the Report Server

New Service Pack 27.005 for List & Label and the Report Server

ByDaniel KennerMar 7, 20233 min read
In this summary you will find the most important new features and improvements of service pack 27.005, including support for Windows 11 22H2 and Windows 10 22H2 as well as support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 11.2.
Report Server 27: New Features and Improvements

Report Server 27: New Features and Improvements

ByAlexander HorakJan 12, 20226 min read
In the Report Server’s most current version, a few more exciting new features have been implemented, as a response to some customer requests. Overall, the new Report Server now visually integrates better into your application. Also, in addition to new actions for planned reports, it also offers additional enhancements for Excel export. Service Pack 27.001 will provide customers with a completely new preview.
Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part III

Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part III

ByBenjamin WassermannDec 8, 202111 min read
In the last part of our blog post series, we’ll take a closer look at challenges that came up while developing the Web Report Designer – especially in regards to back-end requests, hotkeys and the formula editor.
Service-Packs 26.005

New Service Pack 26.005 for List & Label and the Report Server

ByDaniel KennerNov 15, 20214 min read
Besides support for Windows 11, the new Service Pack 26.005 provides many new features and improvements for the Report Designer, print, export, .NET and much more. This blogpost gives you a summary.
Drag and Drop for Donut Chart

Creating Charts via Drag & Drop

ByJochen BartlauNov 9, 20212 min read
List & Label’s chart dialog offers a load of possible customizations. However, as always, with great power comes great complexity. Even creating a simple pie chart could have taken some time if you’re not yet familiar with List & Label’s chart features. As you can already easily create crosstabs via Drag & Drop, and we just recently improved the table’s drag & drop features, offering a thorough D&D support for charts was the next logical step on our path to a simpler, more intuitive end user desktop designer.
App to the Cloud with LL 27

No More Printer Driver Dependency: The New Printerless Mode in List & Label 27

ByJochen BartlauSep 22, 20213 min read
This was a huge issue, that has been bugging us for years. While – generally speaking – List & Label’s level of printer control is unmatched by any competitor I know of, we always required a printer driver in order to execute this control. On the desktop, that’s all fine and well, as Microsoft conveniently provides the XPS Document Writer and – in more recent versions of Windows OS – the Microsoft PDF Writer. Those are always present and accessible. However, on the web and in the cloud, it’s a different story.
Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part II

Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part II

ByBenjamin WassermannSep 6, 202111 min read
In our last blog post, we already announced it: this time, we’d like to address further challenges we encountered during our development of the Web Report Designer. Take advantage from what we learned, and maybe even use some bits for your own projects.
New Service Pack 26.004 for List & Label and the Report Server

New Service Pack 26.004 for List & Label and the Report Server

ByDaniel KennerAug 3, 20214 min read
The Service Pack 26.004 has some new features and various improvements for you. We give you an overview of what’s new and what has improved.
Revisiting C# Script Performance

Revisiting C# Script Performance

ByJochen BartlauJul 13, 20213 min read
This is another often overlooked feature – you can add scripts to your projects and use your favorite language to do so. Since a couple of versions already, List & Label supports C# Scripts. However, the performance was less than perfect, making it a good choice for complex calculations but not so much for using it on a line-to-line base. In List & Label 26, we were able to push the performance quite remarkably – now using scripts is perfectly feasible.
Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part I

Making-of: Web Report Designer in Development Part I

ByBenjamin WassermannJul 5, 20217 min read
The rapidly increasing number of web apps has led to a great demand for web-based reporting solutions. We followed this trend with List & Label, and moved the Designer to the web – from version 27 on. One huge benefit, brought by the new Designer: way less effort, because only one front- and back-end needs to be developed and subsequently maintained. Naturally, the development of the new Web Report Designer presented us with technical challenges which we’d like to share with you – maybe knowing about our own learning curve is going to help you with your own projects, too.
Vastly Improved PDF Export

Vastly Improved PDF Export

ByJochen BartlauMay 18, 20211 min read
PDF is by far the most important export format and one of the targets virtually every user is actually working with. Over the years, we've employed a number of different SDKs and versions of these SDKs in order to write decent PDF files. While the results were excellent already for "normal" cases, there were a couple of restrictions in more advanced scenarios. This has changed in version 26.