Hi

I'm considering options for reporting for my current project, and the "HTML Report Library" seems like it could be a good fit - lots more eval to do yet. One early problem I see with it is that it doesn't support ElevateDB out of the box but apparently it's really quick and easy to create a Database adaptor.

Has anyone here used the "HTML Report Library" and if so, how easy was it in practice to create the adaptor needed? Also, I'd be interested in your thoughts on the library, and also the scripter that comes with it.

Cheers
Shane

Hi Shane

I am pretty sure you are referring to these components:

https://delphihtmlcomponents.com/reports.html

I use the HTML editor / panel component produced by the same developer, and it is just brilliant. But I cannot comment on the HTML Reporter. As it renders everything in HTML it is super portable ... most people do not print out reports anymore, so having HTML which you can display anywhere is a good way to go.

For reporting I use Fast Report (https://www.fast-report.com/en/) and it is also brilliant. A really full/deep/wide reporting solution, which integrates directly with Elevate (you just use an frDataSet and point it at your edbDataset ...) it can also render out to HTML, but by default it is organised to generate printable output and PDFs ... I would strongly recommend it, but I expect HTML Reporter is really good too.

Hi Adam

Thanks for your thoughts. You are right - it is those components. I'm pretty sure you can't get the reports without getting the editor (it's an add on I think) so good to know that the base is brilliant. I guess it's because I don't do much (i.e. I know it's what my browser interprets but not much more with HTML that I can't quite see a use for the editor, and I'm not sure how I'd go with using HTML for reports, but I figured I'd at least trial it. I've used FastReports in the past, and had a reasonably good experience, but when they moved to a subscription model a while back I let it lapse and hence will have to reinvest whichever way I go. The HTML route seems like it may be more flexible for both desktop and mobile apps.

It's interesting that I can see many more comments (on the web, not in this post ) that recommend FR versus these HTML reporting - usually that would be bad sign, and I'm not quite sure how to interpret it, given like yourself, I have heard lots of good things re the editor core.

Adam Brett wrote:

Hi Shane

I am pretty sure you are referring to these components:

https://delphihtmlcomponents.com/reports.html

Shane Sturgeon wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm considering options for reporting for my current project, and the
> "HTML Report Library" seems like it could be a good fit - lots more
> eval to do yet. One early problem I see with it is that it doesn't
> support ElevateDB out of the box but apparently it's really quick and
> easy to create a Database adaptor.
>
> Has anyone here used the "HTML Report Library" and if so, how easy
> was it in practice to create the adaptor needed? Also, I'd be
> interested in your thoughts on the library, and also the scripter
> that comes with it.
>
> Cheers
> Shane

Hi Shane,

it is very simple to create a Dataadapter for Html Report Library. Use
the Firedac example and be sure to assign a edbsession and create a
edbquery in code. thats all

We use HTML-Reports with ElevateDB a lot.

Hi Yusuf - thanks for that. It's good to know that you are obviously a happy user and it works well.

Cheers
Shane

"Yusuf Zorlu" wrote:


it is very simple to create a Dataadapter for Html Report Library. Use
the Firedac example and be sure to assign a edbsession and create a
edbquery in code. thats all

We use HTML-Reports with ElevateDB a lot.

I've used Fast-Reports for many years and used with EDB since day 1 of EDB.   I used RAVE previously and was so glad I dumped RAVE.  Fast Report changed their model to subscription and is doing some more tweaks in a couple months to better align subscription with need.  Their new installer (which looks a lot like DevExpress's installer) works nicer and is appears to be more universal in nature.  They do make frequent updates and the new installer actually lets you back track in an update or move forward easily.

I also have HTML Report Library and their HTML components.  He does a great job and I've seen many comments from well respected Delphi devs that say his code is very clean, concise and well written.  He does not release updates frequently, but mostly due to his code - just works.  So it's mostly due to new major Delphi release compatibility or new features, which a lot of time is synchronized to that.

Lance



Shane Sturgeon wrote:

Hi

I'm considering options for reporting for my current project, and the "HTML Report Library" seems like it could be a good fit - lots more eval to do yet. One early problem I see with it is that it doesn't support ElevateDB out of the box but apparently it's really quick and easy to create a Database adaptor.

Has anyone here used the "HTML Report Library" and if so, how easy was it in practice to create the adaptor needed? Also, I'd be interested in your thoughts on the library, and also the scripter that comes with it.

Cheers
Shane