List & Label Reporting Blog
New Service Pack 28.008 for List & Label and the Report Server
ByThe latest service pack 28.008 for List & Label brings support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 12.2 (BDE & FireDAC) and optimizations for caching mechanisms and memory management.
Interactive Reports with List & Label
ByToday, modern reports must be designed for more than just one purpose. In addition, "all" data should be contained as simply as possible – but presented in a clear and structured way. With List & Label such multifunctional reports can be easily realized. Interactive elements allow a single report to cover several scenarios, while selection options further enhance the report. This makes reports more comprehensive and informative and can be easily operated by the user.
Service Pack 25.001 for List & Label and Report Server
The Service Pack introduces new features, various improvements and corrections. The following is an overview of the features and improvements in the Service Pack.
Miscellaneous Treats in List & Label 25
ByAs with every new version, we have updated List & Label in a lot of different places to make it smoother to use, more modern and accessible. So to continue with this tradition, here are some treats in List & Label 25 you might have overlooked so far.
Connecting Mattermost to Blizz Meetings
As we all are affected by the infamous COVID-19 outbreak I assume many of you are working from their home offices just as we do. We had the luck (aka foresight) to prepare this early on so we were up and running in less than a day. Nevertheless, once we started, there were a couple of challenges we were facing. I thought I'd share some nuggets here that might be useful to you.
Should You Migrate from .NET Framework? – List & Label with .NET Core 3.1 Support
In May 2019, Microsoft announced that it will no longer develop the existing .NET Framework. So the current version 4.8 will be the last release. From now on, the company will concentrate on the further development of .NET Core. For developers, the question arises: Is the release of .NET Core 3.1 a good time to migrate from the .NET Framework? The good news is that you don't have to do without List & Label when migrating.
Text Selection and Copy to Clipboard for the Preview
Creating preview files is all well and good. However, when you needed to access the texts within the preview for post processing, you had to resort to a text export, finding the relevant strings and copying them from there. In LL25, we added a powerful way to extract texts from a preview, directly from within the preview window.
New GraphQL Data Provider for List & Label
GraphQL was publicly released in 2015 and became quite popular since then. It's used by a number of big web applications like Instagram, Facebook and others.
Pushing the Limits with Custom Output for Rscript
While for standard tasks the default mechanism for Rscript rendering of List & Label might be sufficient and convenient to automatically generate the png, jpeg or svg chart output from a Rscript on the fly, there might be situations where you simply desire more control.
Adding JSON to the Available Export Formats
List & Label has supported a number of text based export formats for quite a while. You can have XML, CSV and layout TXT export in different variants. That way, you can use List & Label as a convenient way to convert your data from one of the supported data sources to something you can use in other applications again. But one very popular format was missing so far that's been around for quite a while: Java Script Object Notation aka JSON.
New GraphQL Data Source, Webhooks & more | Report Server 25 Improvements Part 2
ByAs promised in our first blogpost about the innovations of Report Server 25, here comes the second part, including some very interesting features like Webhooks, connection string management or import/export of settings.
