The Report Designer on Linux and Lazarus, and reports designed by AI

[Toni Martir]

Hi everyone,

Report Manager 4.0.16 brings the report designer to the Linux desktop and to Lazarus. It is also a good moment to remind you that Report Manager can design reports for you with AI. Describe the report in the designer's AI chat, for example:

"I want a sales list by customer: one line for each item sold to each customer, adding up amount and quantity, grouped by customer, with a chart of total sales by item in the report footer."

The AI writes the SQL and builds the report. You can keep modifying it with AI or by hand, and every AI change can be undone. The AI only sees the schema of your tables (defined on https://app.reportman.es), never your data. There are also AI assistants for SQL and expressions.

New in 4.0.16:
- Report Manager Designer for Linux, with the AI assistants: a .deb package for Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 12+, and an AppImage for other distributions. Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/reportman/files/Report%20Manager%20Designer/Designer%204.0/Linux/ Installation guide: https://reportman.es/doc/installlin.html
- Lazarus / Free Pascal packages (engine, PDF export, preview and embeddable designer), submitted to the Lazarus Online Package Manager: https://reportman.es/doc/lazaruscomp.html

Also available:
- Reportman DB Agent driver: run your reports from any machine without opening ports in the firewall or setting up a VPN. The Agent runs next to your database and only makes outgoing connections. Download it for Windows, Linux or Docker: https://ai.reportman.es/download
- Web Report Server with a web administration interface, easy to run with Docker: https://reportman.es/webserver.html

Release notes: https://reportman.es/doc/whatisnew.html

Feedback is welcome, especially from Linux and Lazarus users.

Best regards,

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Toni Martir