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New Service Pack 29.002 for List & Label and the Report Server

New Service Pack 29.002 for List & Label and the Report Server

ByDaniel KennerApr 25, 20243 min read
The new Service Pack 29.002 offers support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 12.1, new programming options for print and export as well as new functionalities in the Web Report Designer for data graphics and gauges. In addition, there are various improvements in Designer, the VCL FireDAC component and Report Server. A number of security updates are also included.
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New GraphQL Data Source, Webhooks & more | Report Server 25 Improvements Part 2

ByAlexander HorakOct 31, 20193 min read
As 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.
Supporting ZUGFeRD 2.0 in PDF Export

Supporting ZUGFeRD 2.0 in PDF Export

ByDaniel SteinOct 21, 20193 min read
Version 1.0 of the electronic invoice data format ZUGFeRD for the exchange of invoices has already been supported. For List & Label 25, the specification of version 2.0, officially released in March 2019, is now also supported.
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Full Support for .NET Core 3.0

ByJochen BartlauSep 26, 20192 min read
.NET Standard and .NET Core have been around for a while now. We jumped the bandwagon early and offered beta support since LL23 while officially supporting the new framework since List & Label 24. With the advent of .NET Core 3.0, Microsoft announced that the .NET 4.x releases will be the last of their kind and .NET Core 3.0 – which will later simply be called .NET and will be named ".NET 5" in its next release – is the place to go. We're already there.
New SQL Routines in Data Sources and more | Report Server 25

New SQL Routines in Data Sources and more | Report Server 25

ByAlexander HorakSep 10, 20193 min read
The combit Report Server celebrates its 5th birthday. Right on time for the anniversary, the product again has some new features to offer. We focused especially on the wishes of our customers.
Keeping Groups of Table Lines Together

Keeping Groups of Table Lines Together

ByJochen BartlauAug 22, 20192 min read
Continuing our quest to make the table object more versatile and powerful in LL25, we added an important tweak to the way table lines are kept together. Before, you just had the choice between keeping all lines together or none. That means, if the output for a single record stretched over a couple of pages and consisted of several line definitions, there was hardly ever a way to get the wrapping "right". 
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Adding Signature Support to the Email Module

ByJochen BartlauAug 7, 20192 min read
This has been another great suggestion from our community at Idea Place. While the mail module is quite flexible and can send mails via SMTP, MAPI and XMAPI, and can either use the client's mail dialog or a custom, built in dialog, there was no way to append Outlook standard signatures to the sent mails so far. Microsoft has finally declined the request to add this feature to Outlook's MAPI implementation. So there was room for improvement.
Infinite Pages for HTML and XLS Export

Infinite Pages for HTML and XLS Export

ByJochen BartlauJul 25, 20192 min read
This is another of those "huh, you didn't have that before" features. As a WYSIWYG layout oriented reporting tool, the page has always been king for List & Label. While this is nice in many circumstances, when it comes to reporting for the web or XLS and printing is not planned at all, the result can be unwanted although looking beautiful.
Autosize for Column Widths

Autosize for Column Widths

ByJochen BartlauJul 11, 20192 min read
Another step forward in our continuing quest to improve what's already great – our table object. Until LL25, you had to decide which widths you'd like to reserve for your respective columns. While this works out just nice most of the time, sometimes the result is less than perfect.
Defining Sub Tables via Filter Conditions

Defining Sub Tables via Filter Conditions

ByJochen BartlauJun 25, 20193 min read
This is another great addition to the report container's feature set. Until LL25, related tables always needed to have an actual relation on the data source level in order to be usable as data source for sub items. If there was no relation, there was no way to insert the sub item, even if both tables in question had an ID field that would easily allow a custom linkage. In LL25, you can now have relations based on filter conditions.
Printing Columns Across-Down

Printing Columns Across-Down

ByJochen BartlauJun 18, 20192 min read
Multi-columnar layouts for tables are quite popular for newspaper or phone book style reports. Whenever you have just a few actual columns in the table it's handy to use the page's real estate by splitting it in multiple columns. This feature has been around for ages, however it was missing one important setting until LL25.