The best reporting component for Delphi? [closed]

Answer 1

While you haven't explicitly mentioned Bold, I assume you would prefer a Bold aware reporter. If so, then nicely designed "pluggable" data awareness is important. I haven't tried all of the popular products, but I was able to boldify FastReport without too much effort. It's not lacking in any other area so I highly recommend it.

Answer 2

We use FastReport for last 10 years. Never had any problems.

Answer 3

I have been using FastReports for about 10 years. The current version is very good. We use it in a number of areas including pdf generation for web reporting, user report design and automatic printing.

Answer 4

Another thing very interesting : support is very good with Fast Report Team !

Just ask one question and you get your answer very quickly : you can also ask for some improvement and if it don't look stupid they made it.

And then, if you need OLAP solution : you can get Fast Cube and generate report quickly

Answer 5

I haven't tried digital-metaphors but I have used FastReports for a long time and I haven't even faced any problem related with that product.

Pros:

• Very good and functional designer
• Query objects
• Scripting support (allows you to call functions from code)
• Multi language support
• Wide range of exporting options

Cons:

• Designer's code editor is buggy

Answer 6

Slightly different tack, but I use WPTools in its mail merge capacity to generate reports. I switched from a standard reporting system because people found it harder to use, and most reports are wanted in Word so they can be edited (in our app anyway). Not for everyone, but worth a ponder. It supports banding type things, so you can loop nicely, and can feed data from database or static structures.