FPReport Designer

The FPReport Visual report designer

The FPReport visual report designer has the following features:

• Design a report from scratch using a visual editor.
• Define variables
• Load/Save report to/from a JSON file
• Connect data to the report

• CSV data
• JSON data
• SQLDB data
• DBF Data

• Preview data
• Export data to known exporters (PDF, Image, HTML)

The following is how it will look when working on a report:

usage

The Visual report designer is intended to be intuitive, and as such does not require a lot of explanation

• To add a data field to a band: drag and drop ot from the data tree view no the right.
• Same for functions
• ctrl-drag will create a selection rectangle

Quick explanation of the menu

File

The file menu starts a new report or loads/saves a report from disk.

• New - speaks for itself
• Open report - load a JSON file with a report from disk.
• Save Report - save report to a JSON file.
• Quit - exit the report designer

Edit

• Delete - delete the selection

Copy & Paste are in the works.

Report

• Add Page : Add a new page to the report.
• Properties: set author, 2-pass, title.
• Report data : To manage data sources.
• Variables: define variables which can be used in expressions

Bands

This can be used to add various types of bands to the report.