Fastreport Maunel
© 2008-2010 Fast Reports Inc.
FastReport.Net User's manualTable of contents 3
Table of contents
Chapter I Fundamentals 12
The report 12 Report designer 12 Report options 14 Report pages 16 Managing pages 17 Page properties 18 Bands 21 Bands in designer 21 Configuring bands 22 Printing Bands 24 Band properties 25 Report objects 27 Common object properties 27 The "Text" object 29 Text editing 29 Displaying the expressions 30 Displaying the data columns 31 HTML tags 32 Object's properties 33 The "Rich Text" object 34 The "Picture" object 36 The "Line" object 39 The "Shape" object 39 The "Barcode" object 40 The "CheckBox" object 43 The "Table" object 44 The "Matrix" object 45 The "Chart" object 45 The "Zip Code" object 46 The "Cellular Text" object 47 Your first report in the FastReport 48 Example 1. Creating a report manually 48 Example 2. Creating a report with the wizard 50 Chapter II Report creation 56
Choosing data for a report 57 Dynamic layout 58 CanGrow, CanShrink properties 58 ShiftMode property 59 GrowToBottom property 59 Anchor property 59 Dock property 60 Formatting 624 Table of contents
Border and fill 62 Text formatting 63 Styles 63 Data formatting 64 Conditional highlighting 66 Hiding zero values 68 Hide duplicate values 69 Highlight odd/even data rows 70 Report with one "Data" band 71 Connecting a band to data source 71 Printing the text 71 Sorting the data 71 Filtering the data 73 Data header and footer 74 Breaking data and keeping it together 75 Printing empty data rows 77 Printing "No data" text 79 Printing hierarchy 80 Master-detail report 83 Master-master report 86 Master-detail-detail report 88 Multicolumn reports 89 Page columns 89 Data band columns 90
"Booklet"-type reports 92 Adding page into a report 92 Page settings 92 Printing on odd/even pages 93 Groups and totals 95 Creating groups 97 Sorting the data 99 Nested groups 100 Managing groups 101 Printing total values 102 Repeating the header and footer 103 Group properties 104
FastReport.Net User's manualTable of contents 3
Table of contents
Chapter I Fundamentals 12
The report 12 Report designer 12 Report options 14 Report pages 16 Managing pages 17 Page properties 18 Bands 21 Bands in designer 21 Configuring bands 22 Printing Bands 24 Band properties 25 Report objects 27 Common object properties 27 The "Text" object 29 Text editing 29 Displaying the expressions 30 Displaying the data columns 31 HTML tags 32 Object's properties 33 The "Rich Text" object 34 The "Picture" object 36 The "Line" object 39 The "Shape" object 39 The "Barcode" object 40 The "CheckBox" object 43 The "Table" object 44 The "Matrix" object 45 The "Chart" object 45 The "Zip Code" object 46 The "Cellular Text" object 47 Your first report in the FastReport 48 Example 1. Creating a report manually 48 Example 2. Creating a report with the wizard 50 Chapter II Report creation 56
Choosing data for a report 57 Dynamic layout 58 CanGrow, CanShrink properties 58 ShiftMode property 59 GrowToBottom property 59 Anchor property 59 Dock property 60 Formatting 624 Table of contents
Border and fill 62 Text formatting 63 Styles 63 Data formatting 64 Conditional highlighting 66 Hiding zero values 68 Hide duplicate values 69 Highlight odd/even data rows 70 Report with one "Data" band 71 Connecting a band to data source 71 Printing the text 71 Sorting the data 71 Filtering the data 73 Data header and footer 74 Breaking data and keeping it together 75 Printing empty data rows 77 Printing "No data" text 79 Printing hierarchy 80 Master-detail report 83 Master-master report 86 Master-detail-detail report 88 Multicolumn reports 89 Page columns 89 Data band columns 90
"Booklet"-type reports 92 Adding page into a report 92 Page settings 92 Printing on odd/even pages 93 Groups and totals 95 Creating groups 97 Sorting the data 99 Nested groups 100 Managing groups 101 Printing total values 102 Repeating the header and footer 103 Group properties 104