The software house combit, maker of the internationally renown component List & Label, has now released version 14. List & Label comes equipped with a host of new features and according to combit breaks existing boundaries to set new standards, offering developers new perspectives for creating reports. A special feature that List & Label developers have implemented to ease the use of the Designer is the inclusion of a real-data-preview, a real time saving impact for all end users.
“It’s a completely new design feeling” says Jochen Bartlau, Project Manager of List & Label, talking about the new features of the Designer and with a wink in his eye adds: “Now there is no reason to leave the Designer ever again”. That means the impact of changes can now be seen with real data, without having to leave the Designer. Within the preview there is also an integrated index to ease the navigation through the report. Additionally the page layout of the output file breaks boundaries set by the previous versions: it is now possible to mix different formats within the same document. In earlier versions it was only possible to have one layout format e.g. portrait or landscape – now multiple formats are possible as well as the choice of printer type. Using a single record from the database, the user can define real rows – for example with tolerance values, target and measured – that can be represented in a line diagram with respect to time.
Software developers get their money’s worth too with the new version: new for Professional and Enterprise Edition 14, the generation of DOM code is now automatically provided by the List & Label object model directly from the project file which according to combit saves precious time. The DOM viewer has been completely reworked, now including a search utility for objects and properties. Additionally a project file can be used as a general storage to help developers along. For this purpose, the project parameter interface has been extended with a method and allows the storage of SQL queries or even complete data sets within a pro-ject. One of many highlights of version 14 is an extended formula assistant, better overview of property values, magnetized help lines in the Designer and your own Designer actions e.g. in combination with DOM: select a style sheet at the click of a button.
More information: http://www.combit.net/en/reporting-tool/report-generator-List-Label
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