FastReport is a reporting engine which provides all the tools necessary for developing reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, previewer, dialog designer and macro interpreter.
Some of the features of FastReport include:
- Band-oriented report generator.
- A wide range of band types allows the creation of any kind of report Code-based reports
- Multi-page and multi-template reports Cross-tabs allow creation of tabular reports with complex row and column headers from a single dataset, either a table or a query
- Interactive reports
Report Designer
- Powerful modern editor which includes a large set of tools for visually designing and modifying report templates
- Can be incorporated into your application to give users their own report design!
- Clean and simple classic interface
- Report Wizard
- Separate tabs for "Design", "Data" and "Code"
Security
- Reports only have access to data specified by your application and data can be made read only
- Encrypted templates and reports (by Rijndael-like algorithm). Data can protected by a secure document password
- Web-based reports support the use of secure channels
Flexibility and Interactivity
- Built-in script shell that supports 4 languages: PascalScript, C++ Script, BasicScript and JScript
- Interactive forms, drill-down (drop) reports, call another report with detailed information from the preview window with one mouse click
- Flexible and open architecture.You can enhance it by creating and connecting your own objects (export filters, functions and database engines) to your reports
- Inheritance of report templates
- Reports can be independent of your application, so the application does not require recompilation when a user requires changes in a report
