Types of solutions for generating reports and documents

Friends, this year has been eventful and productive for us!     📌 Key achievements Release of new products: we launched FastReport Avalonia – a tool for cross-platform work on reports for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Changes in approach to product formation: we split the product content in a way where you do not have to buy unnecessary functionality.     What changed for our products? For Delphi and Lazarus: Improved work with hierarchical data in FastReport for Delphi and Lazarus by adding the TfrTreeView component. Additional capabilities for working with maps were added by supporting the GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats. Improved digital signatures, added infinite table width, expanded barcode capabilities, and improved display accuracy and compatibility of PDF, HTML5, SVG, DOCX, and XLSX export filters. In the latest version, we have enhanced the capabilities of working with reports in complex scenarios and provided a higher level of integration with modern development environments, including RAD Studio 12.2. Next year, we plan to add new components, support for RFID tag EPC in ZPL, new transports, improved export filters, and much more.     For .NET: We have abandoned the legacy .NET Standard 2.0 - 3.1 and .NET 5 compatibility layer in our libraries. Now the minimum supported .NET version is .NET 6, and the minimum supported framework is .NET Framework 4.6.2. With the latest version of the FastReport .NET library, FastReport Business Graphics .NET and FastCube .NET now support .NET 9. To do this, we abandoned binary serialization (BinaryFormatter). This year, we relaunched FastCube .NET, a library for working with OLAP cubes and operational analysis of big data. Now FastCube.Core.Web supports  Linux and MacOS. It opens up the possibility of developing web applications with OLAP functionality on any server. One of the key changes in the FastCube .NET 2025.1 release was the complete removal of the dependency on the System.Drawing.Common library in the FastCube.Core module. This was done to increase the library compatibility with various platforms and improve performance. The FastReport Online Designer visual template designer has also changed. In 2024, a new "SparkGraphic" object was added, it became possible to create guidelines on the page and a new component menu was implemented. When editing the report code, the Intellisense functionality was added, which provides automatic code completion and syntax hints, which allows users to write code faster and more accurately directly in the web interface. In 2025, we plan to add a new plugin allowing you to convert user reports from MS Word to .frx. In addition, a connection to Google Sheets will be implemented in the future. FastScript .NET for executing scripts will be released in the first half of the year. The new library will contain a compilation technology that allows you to convert intermediate code into machine code for a specific platform (Native AOT). We are striving to create a complete ecosystem of products for different platforms, so next year we will also work on their integration with each other.     For service solutions: In FastReport Cloud, we improved the automatic task execution system, added printing from the browser, and developed a font storage, finalized the SDK. Improved the usability and speed of the API Added new API methods for working with the cloud, allowing you to perform familiar operations faster and more conveniently: bulk copying, deleting, and moving files; a new upload method that allows you to upload large files and use fewer resources; methods for obtaining the current user's rights to files, groups, tasks, and data sources; added the ability to receive and edit report parameters without opening the report itself for editing. Made the user panel more convenient Improved work with the Online Designer: added a Richtext preview, and style templates for ChartObject. Gave the ability to edit the user's avatar, made a new trash bin for deleting files, improved the Tasks page; finalized data sources, giving the ability to use stored procedures and add custom tables from SQL. In 2025, we plan to release a new product and add parameter transfer to StaticPreview UI.     We thank you for trusting us in 2024. Let's move on and create the future together! Happy Holidays!  

FastReport Cloud supports adding multiple users to a single workspace as well as to one license. It is necessary to delineate user permissions in some way. For example, one group could be allowed to add report templates, while another group could only prepare and export reports, without the ability to make any changes. In this article, you will learn the basics of creating and configuring groups for such purposes.     Navigate to the FastReport Cloud workspace and then click on the “Groups” section.     Group settings are configured in the “Groups” menu. By default, there are three groups set up: Owner: This group contains the owner of the workspace. The owner has all permissions, and these can only be disabled from the admin panel and through the API.   Other: Any user who joins the workspace will be assigned to this group. The permissions enabled for this group apply to all users. It is essential to set minimal permissions for this group so that new users do not have more permissions than necessary.   Anon (Anonymous Users): This group technically cannot contain users and serves as a way to configure anonymous access to certain elements in the workspace. Each group has a set of permissions that determine what actions a user in that group can perform. The designation of permissions is generally clear from their names, but if you have any questions, you can refer to the documentation.    In the screenshot above (with a partial list of permissions), you can see that all possible permissions are disabled for anonymous users by default. Let’s create a new group and configure its permissions from scratch. In the top left corner under the word “Groups,” there is an input field for adding a new group. Enter a new name and press Enter.     The context menu allows you to delete or rename the group.      The new group will be created without any permissions. In the “Permissions” tab, which opens by default, you can configure what users are allowed to do. The minimum set of permissions is “Get Info” about the workspace and documents. If you allow only this permission, the user will be able to see the list and general information about the uploaded documents. Conversely, if the added group has no permissions, but the “All Users” group does, the user will still be able to see the documents. Let’s set permissions as follows:     Then go to the “Users” tab. Here you can manage users and their access.     Users in the group will be shown in the upper panel, while the others will be in the lower panel. If the same permissions are disabled for the “All Users” group, only users in the added group will have the ability to see the documents. This is what the FastReport Cloud menu will look like if a user has no permissions, even basic ones:     If they are added to a group where only viewing information and previewing reports is allowed, this is what users will see when they right-click on a template:     The actions highlighted in gray are unavailable to the user because neither the “All Users” group nor the groups to which this user belongs have the permission to perform those actions.