APS Accounting & Stock Control ver. 3.0.0.4 released

APS Accounting & Stock Control ver. 3.0.0.4 released

A complete new report designer

The end-user can create the same reports that you as the developer can create with Quickreport (and more). QRDesign has the usual features of a report designer (easy-to-use interface with full control over every report element, scaled preview, customizable, drag and drop creation of report elements etc.).

R.Designer supports using all native and third-party Quickreport export filters for exporting to text, Excel, HTML, richtext, PDF, ...

R.Designer includes support for various barcode and other third-party components
Report-Expert for easy creation of various report types
SQL Wizard for creating filtered queries with just a few mouse clicks
create mailing labels easily with 1200 label formats from various brands already included
end user help with report basics and tutorial that can be distributed with your application
the usual state-of-the-art editor capabilities, e.g. alignment palette, grids for moving and resizing report elements, multi-select of components etc.
property dialogs for every kind of report element

Report Designer Database features

supports query parameters to let the end-user easily specify filter criteria etc. (QRDesign can automatically ask the user for query parameter values before generating a report) (details)
unlimited number of tables and queries for each report, including master-detail-relationships
support for lookup fields and calculated fields
Report Designer Enhanced Quickreport functionality

bands can be printed depending on an expression, e.g. only if a data field has a certain value
bands can be printed on even or odd page numbers only, not on the first or not on the last page
printing of data fields can be suppressed for repeated values or if their value is 0
DBImages can be loaded from a BMP-file according to a data field's string content, instead of loading them from a dataset's blob field
rotated labels and expressions
expressions can be used in memos and richtexts
lots of additional functions for QuickReport's expression evaluator
Report Designer Advanced features

integrated script language to write event handlers at runtime (details)
You can use hard-coded calculated fields for difficult calculations which can not be done with QuickReport's expression evaluator or QRDesign's script language
You can save and load a report's datasets in separate files from the report elements, so you can use one report with different data views etc.
You can intercept loading of the report datasets, e.g. to change SQL statements, filtering, table paths etc. on the fly
use Quickreport events like BeforePrint, OnPreview etc. with QRDesign reports too
event to intercept every single creation of a report component, e.g. to set your own default properties

A complete new Security Manager

The users can be grouped and can inherit rights in this way. Thereby you can integrate a highly sophisticated and close grained user management that closes all potential loopholes . Only if the user has been granted the specific right by the administrator he can see or use the specific function assigned by the administrator.

The administrator can configure the rights at run-time thereby preventing a restart of the program when changing assignments. intuitive GUI that enables the administrator to create new users or to group or delete them directly from the application

A complete skin manager and look of the applications

Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects
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