Fast Report Tutorial
Nichele Seibel
I have been looking for a solution for reporting, which is free/open source, and only the last week I found something worth mentioning. Being from the corporate accounting world, my tools are directed towards accountants and business users, which rely heavily on such reports, and I would like to see an open source/free reporting tool to serve this purpose.
Prerequisites:
A. Basic .Net Core MVC
B. Nuget Package - FastReport.OpenSource.Web (take latest one for 2019)
C. There is an frx file, which is an XML document describing the report itself. I manually edited the sample report, to fit my sample data. It is saved in my wwwroot folder, simple list.frx.
D. Main difference to their tutorial is that I take data from my list, not the XML database of Northwind. Clone their git repo, and see how it runs for their
data: the Web.MVC folder contains the relevant .net core MVC example:
E. There is a report editor/designer, Fast Report Designer Demo for trial purposes. Download it.
Also, download the -report.com/en/product/fast-report-viewer/, it's a free tool.
What I have been exploring is Jasper Reports with their Report Server. It exposes REST JSON APIs that I can then call from other applications. The resulting report can then be streamed via the HTTP response. I have found it perfect for my needs and will probably be expanding on its use in my applications in the future. A bonus is that you can get a report's parameters from an API and so could generate dynamic inputs in whatever program is consuming it. I definitely suggest Jasper Reports to anyone looking for an alternative to something like Crystal Reports.
Dear Mr.Halasz
Thank you very much for this article, i was looking for a free/opensource reporting tools for Core 3,for along time until i came across your great article.
But when i try to print the report the Print From Browser icon dos not print.
Is there a way to print the report or it is disabled in the open source.
BTW. i am using Blazor Server with core 3.0.
Your help will be very much appreciated.
please check the sample app running, fastreport.zoltanhalasz.net/, print from browser. It seems to work fine here.
second option, try to use my code, and see if it works locally, it is using .net core 2.2 or below. github.com/zoltanhalasz/FastReport...
third option, save the prepared report in fpx format, and then install the Fastreport viewer fast-report.com/en/product/fast-re..., which can open it and save in pdf/xls, or print it.
Honestly I did not try with .net core 3.0 or above... no Idea why it doesn't work.
First Of all thank you very much for your quick response.
sorry it was my mistake because im trying to press the icon it self i should click on the word says Print From Browser.
Please if you came across any thing that help with using fast report with Blazor.
Please kindly notify me on the following email: T.Alk...@Gmail.com.
I will much appreciate your help
UPDATE: Just learned they are on on holiday until January 11th!
That explains why I cannot get replies to my tickets or phone calls at all. I've build a .NET Core 3.1 solution. (Your example, though good, generates an embedded PDF (iframe) which prints with a dialog.) We can find no way in Core to print (without the print dialog, directly... as within my .NET Core console app which we will run as a Windows Service.)
I really don't know the answer to your question. Try exporting the fpx file, and print it with the report viewer application, maybe this solves your question. But I didn't study this deeper to be able to help you.
1.)Im not sure if this is free? I think the demo can only print 5 pages and there's a watermark indicating that its a demo version.
2.)How did you design the report? Do they have a designer? I went to their website and saw they have an online designer. Is there an offline designer that is integrated with Visual studio?
I designed the fpx file starting from one of their demo files and then editing the xml file in VS Code.
The viewer is free, so you can export any report from your app in fpx format and print it from the viewer, or export to excel, pdf, word fast-report.com/en/product/fast-re...
I see. So you edited the xml from visual studio. So if you wanted to use the designer to create a report, then you need to buy? Or you can use the designer for free?
I'm quite sure that the demo trial can only print 5 pages max though it was mentioned on their website.
There is also a module allowing for pixel perfects multi pager document kind of reporting as well with options like grouping, alignment, report header, page header, report footer, page footer, summary, repeat by, page setup and many more allowing you to create reports like invoice salary slips bank statements tickets etc.
There are many other options which includes embedding, exporting in various formats, email scheduling, user role management, support of SSO (like CAS, LDAP, active directory, Oauth etc). Entire application can be white labelled. There are more than 30+ charting options and it is also possible to extend and integrate any sort of javascript charts like D3, C3, chartsjs etc. By default there are also a lot of advanced statistical and scientific charting options allowing users to fulfill their analytical data viz need as well as visualize huge amount of data.
This blog about FastReport Open Source. Here you can find articles, tutorials, tips and tricks.
FastReport Open Source is free reporting tool for .NET Core/.NET Framework
that helps your application generate document-like reports.
We're using Fast Reports to create reports but we're not very happy with the quality of the PDFs it creates. I know we can plug in other PDF components instead of the one that comes with FastReports so my question is
Edit: I bought Gnostice in the end as it had the FastReports integration, source available and a fairly good reputation. I did however find an issue (after I had bought it) with exporting multipage reports from FastReports to PDF where the component leaks memory and corrupts the output. I've reported it to Gnostice so I guess we'll see how good their support is in the next few days...
Use our SynPDF unit. Among its features, you can use a true TCanvas to create the PDF, and embed True Type fonts subsets. It's one of the few libraries handling Arabic languages and such (via the UniScribe API). It's fully Unicode ready, and very fast.
The other way is to programmtically use TgtPDFDocument class and then settings it's properties and collections. This gives much finer control over features like watermarks, permissions, password security etc.
llPDFLib is pure Object Pascal library to create PDF documents. This library doesn't use any DLL or external third-party software to generate PDF files. Library includes TPDFDocument component with properties and methods like Delphi's TPrinter but is designed to generate a PDF file.
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