Delphi Programming Diary - Jitendra Kumar

In my last blog ( Create or Design master detail report with Fortes Report ) I have explained how to design a master detail report with using Fortes Report and its components. Now here in this blog I will show how to design grouping report with Fortes Report to show Customer and their orders with Customer No. as group.  And  for more detail about Fortes Report please visit  Fortes Report and Components . Here I have created a project which contains report to show Customer details and you can download the sample DB from link  download dbdemos.db . I have saved the DB in C:\Test folder. So now lets design Customer Order detail report with Grouping as Customer No using Fortes Report components. 1. First create a project and add a form to the project lets say Unit1 (Form1). 2. Add a TADOConnection component to the form named connmain and set connection string. ConnectionString =  'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\test\ demos.md...

Fortes Report A best alternative to Quick Report. It’s totally free and supports latest Delphi versions The Fortes Report is a powerful report generator available as a package of components for Delphi looks very similar to the Quick Report . In Fortes Report, the reports are composed of bands that have specific functions to print data. You define groupings, sublevels and totals simply by hierarchical relationship between bands. Moreover, the Fortes Report has a rich palette of components to print text, image, barcode and export components etc. How to install Fortes Report in Delphi ? For Delphi DX or later versions we can use GetItPackage Manager to install. For lower Delphi version download latest code from following links and follow the steps. https://github.com/fortesinformatica/fortesreport-ce https://sourceforge.net/projects/fortesreport/ Then go to Packages folder and Open frce.dpk package. Then right click compile and Build. Then again right click and...