Release notes
What is new
Version 2.7e include this new features (March 2008)
- Enhaced Dot net 1.1 and 2.0 support, preview and print working in latest linux Mono releases.
- Simplified text search engine in preview.
- Small features for ActiveX and GNU C library.
- Bugfixes and performance enhacements.
Version 2.7 include this new features (September 2007)
- Enhaced Dot net 1.1 and 2.0 support
- Design scale (zoom in and out while designing the report)
- Adding filters to Mybase driver using parameters.
- Adobe Reader 8 compatibility fixes (Truetype linking and embedding)
- Bugfixes
Version 2.6e include this new features
- Enhaced Dot net 1.1 and 2.0 support
- String substitution expression parameter type
- Bugfixes
Version 2.6 include this new features
- Dot net port, supporting Dot net 1.1 and 2.0
- Descriptions and hints for parameters can now be translated to multiple
languages in the same way report labels are.
- Parameter validation expression: allow checking for conditions when user
enter parameters (also supported on web server)
- Shared image property, to optimize size of pdfs and metafiles.
- Enhaced web server, language setting is available as a input parameter.
- Bugfixes
Version 2.5d include this new features (February 2005)
- Enhaced C# port
- UUEncoded image support
- In Windows, environment variables allow
the load for decimal separator, date separator etc
- Bugfixes
Version 2.5 include this new features (December 2005)
- Preview window can now show more than one page at a time, right click on
entire page icon
- Search dataset for parameters, allowing the user to search for parameter
values
- A C# port of the engine can be tested, at data configuration select dot
net driver.
- Bugfixes (external sections and minors)
- See http://reportman.sourceforge.net/version/dotnetport.html for more information
Version 2.4 include this new features (May 2005)
- New parameter type, multiple selection type parameter.
- Search dataset for parameters, allowing the user to search for parameter
values
- Parameter dbxconnections can be used to alter path to configuration file
- Enhacements on charting
- Experimental Unicode fonts truetype support on PDF export.
- Report file can be stored as XML (prefered save format), experimental.
- Bugfixes
Version 2.3 include this new features (January 2005)
- Great performance enhacements in Linux, linked querys, subreport and others.
- Startup performance enhacement for all command line tools.
- Truetype font embedding speed up
- Enhaced ActiveX control, printer selection, saving metafiles...
- Other minor enhacements (default font in designer,optimized tiled draw,
obj.inspector font selection...)
- Partial unicode enabled designer (object inspector) for Windows NT systems,
Linux already supports this.
- Group page count element implementation.
- PDF417 barcode printing (2d barcode allowing 1024 bytes per barcode)
- Enhaced export to Excel (single sheet-multiple sheet)
- Use environment variable (REPMANUSEKPRINTER=true) to integrate the print
engine with KDE.
- Remote report parameter ask and modify, from components, ActiveX and shared
library API.
- Allow different page sizes, orientations and paper bins, in a single document
(Windows,PDF, experimental)
- Report language selection at runtime (M.LANGUAGE for example to print several
invoices in diferent languages in the same report)
- New expression evaluator functions (TextHeight, ...)
- Delphi 2005 support
- Since 2.2 version, for client/server report comunications, the client application
must be at least same version as server, older versions require same version
in client and server to work.
- Bugfixes
Version 2.2 include this new features (August 29th 2004)
- Truetype font linking and embedding (also Type1 linking in Linux)
- Master fields for in memory tables, to enhace
query link performance
- Performance enhacement in DBExpress linked querys
- Paper source selection and duplex printing at page configuration
- Added functions to exp.evaluator (chartrange, getvaluefromsql, imageop,barcodeop)
- Other minor enhacements (default font in designer,optimized tiled draw...)
- Important bugfixes in .Net native version
- Bugfixes
Version 2.1 include this new features (May 14th 2004)
- Background image in sections for easy form filling and printing.
- Custom output, generate custom text file format output
- E-mail report (pdf) feature from preview
- Expanded align properties (all client alignment, top-down alignment...),
this will allow flexible drawings in dinamically resized sections.
- Child subreport support for repeatable group header sections.
- Enhaced Teechart properties
- New export formats: Comma Separated Values, Scalable Vector Graphics, Custom
text output
- Italian, german and catalan language support.
- Enhaced TCP Server configuration, manage active connections.
- New Zeos library version, stable 6.1
- Bug fixes
Version 2.0 include this new features (December 22th 2004)
- Native .Net support, compiled with Delphi
for .Net.
- HTML output
- Full Report Library support
(reports stored inside database tables with a tree structure)
- Enhaced security model for web server and TCP report server
- Enhaced ActiveX
- Enhaced designer,data browser with drag&drop feature,
categorized object inspector, documentation and more.
- Report compiler (Windows only), generate a executable independent report
(About 300Kbytes).
- Enhaced Borland C++ Builder 6 support.
- Some of minor features not listed here.
- Notes: This upgrade requires updates for client and server, that is a 1.6
client does not work with a 2.0 server and a 2.0 client does not work with
1.6 server.
Version 1.6 include this new features (August 7th 2003)
- Multiprocessor support (smp).
- New output driver, text only with printer escape codes
to print lighting fast in any dot matrix printer, in Windows and Linux, also
to save the report result as plain text.
- New shared libraries libreportmanapi.so and libreportmanapiqt.so
to access the engine with GNU C and
any language capable of calling dynamic link library functions (Reportman.ocx
for Windows)
- Zeos library
drivers support
- Excel export support for Microsoft Windows
- Allow report definition streaming in three formats binary-zlib, binary and
text , so you can track changes in your reports with cvs
- Plain text file input support as a database file
with visual configuration dialog
- New method for VCL components and ActiveX, executeremote
to execute reports stored in report servers, also available in ActiveX and
GNU C interface.
- New property editors for Delphi 5 (TRpAlias)
- Enhaced command line tools (-preview -pdialog options added),
all tools can work now with standard input and standard ouput.
- ActiveX composite reports feature.
- New methods for drawing text and graphic elements usable from the expression
evaluator.
- Enhaced designer - New database connections/datasets configuration dialog,
active help in properties in the object inspector...
- Enhaced support for Borland C++ Builder (added CLX package and more documentation)
- Enhaced documentation
- Portuguesse language support thanks to Warlei
Alves
- Bug fixes
- Report Manager is now a Project
Jedi Alliance member
- Notes: This upgrade requires updates for client and server, that is a 1.5
client does not work with a 1.6 server and a 1.6 client does not work with
1.5 server. This is also true for ActiveX Internet explorer plugin. Replace
dbxdrivers old file with the new one for zeos support.
Version 1.5 include this new features (April 2th 2004)
- Client side unions with grouping feature to support cross database dataset
unions
- Command line tools support now the parameter -paramPARAMNAME=paramvalue
- Parameter values from alist of provided values
- Full Bidi support for MS Windows, partial Bidi support for PDF and Linux.
- Global scope page headers and footers
- Printing large text across multiple pages is now implemented (Multi Page
property)
- Barcode square rotation
- ActiveX interface to report parameters and parameter information
- Enhaced Designer
Version 1.4 include this new features
- Positioning of sections based on expressions
- Page positioning of sections based on expressions (two pass report required)
- The features above allow printing of datasets in paral.lel.
- Bugfix to support two pass report in web/tcp server
- French language support, thanks to Jean Louis Argente (argente@alussinan.org)
- Report libraries, creating, altering, storing reports inside databases
- Report wizard
Version 1.3 include this new features:
- Web report server
- TeeChart Support
- External sections (database streamable)
- Child-cascade subreports
- Enhaced Adobe PDF image support
- Enhaced documentation
- Enhaced expression build wizard
- Small Bugfixes
- OnBeforePrint event handling (Delphi/Kylix/Builder)
- Enhaced main
website
- Added source code units documentation