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On behalf of Fast Reports Inc. and Firebird we are pleased to invite you to a seminar devoted to new functionalities of the Fast Report and Firebird programmes. The seminar will take place on 07.12.2007 atHotel Lord in Warsaw, Al. Krakowskie 218.   Fast Reports Inc company has been operating on the IT market since 1998 and its main objective is to develop report-generating software. The aim of the seminar is to present new functionalities and features of Fast Report and Firebird, as well as other tools. All the advantages and functionalities of the programmes will be presented by: Fast Reports' BI solutions for developers and end-users, Michael Philippenko, CEO Fast Reports Fighting database corruptions, Dmitry Kuzmenko, CEO IBSurgeon Fast Reports' new products and new features, Michael Philippenko, CEO Fast ReportsOptimization of Firebird databases, Dmitry Kuzmenko, CEO IBSurgeon  Participation in the seminar is free of change.  All the interested persons are asked to contact us by phone: 022 885-43-21 or by writing to the e-mail address: info@softkey.pl in order to receive an application form.  The number of participants is limited.We invite you to take part in our seminar!

You can download documentation for FastCube from this page.

Seminar Firebird and FastReport, Prague, 9. November 2007We cordially invite you to a one-day seminar on The Firebird and FastReport database systems, which will be held in patek 9. November in Prague hotel Angelo na Smichove (Radlicka 1g, Prague 5, metro station Andel).   Preface: Dmitry Yemanov, chief developer of Firebird Pavel Cisar, IBPhoenix and Firebird QA Mikhail Phillipenko, CEO of FastReport Dmitry Kuzmenko, CEO of IBSurgeon and IBPhoenix expert on data optimization and data recovery.The topic of the seminar will be news in Firebird, security, data protection and optimization, business intelligence and reporting with fastreport and Firebird products. You will not miss the chance to meet members of the developing Firebird team and the opportunity to get prime answers to your questions at the round table! Lectures will be presented in Czech and English. Admission to the seminar is free. However, the number of mist is limited, so register as soon as possible! Seminar programme: 1. Introduction2. New features of Firebird (English, Dmitry Yemanov)3. Fastreport kits (English, Mikhail Phillipenko)4. Protection against damage or loss of data (English, Dmitry Kuzmenko)5. Firebird Internals by Dmitry Yemanov6. Business intelligence with FastCube (English, Mikhail Phillipenko)7. Firebird and security (Czech, Pavel Cisar)8. Optimization (English, Dmitry Kuzmenko)9. Round table (English and Czech, all lecturers) http://ibphoenix.fr/spip.php?article80

FastCube 1.1---------------+ added new aggregate function "Count of Unique"+ added new property DefaultFormat for Date, Time and Numeric.+ added new property FormatString in TfcCubeField.+ added support for ftLargeInt and ftMemo fields+ added option mdsoNoTotalIfOneValue (No Total if data only one row)+ added finction for automatic fields layout: TfcSlice.CreateAutoFieldsLayout(ANumsAsFacts: boolean = false);+ added option mdsoAddTotalPrefix (add word "Total" when used mdsoTotalAsPrevLevel)+ added event (OnGetFieldConv) for tune of field converter+ added AutoHeight from ALL colmuns in RowAxis+ added package for Delphi 5+ added Recompile Wizard for FastCube+ added Events on Save/Load/Export actions+ added component TfrcGrid for link TfrcCrossView in report with TfcGrid from form.* unit fcGraphics renamed to fcGraphicUtils since 1stClass has same unit name* unit fcScrollBar renamed to fcScrollBarCtrl since 1stClass has same unit name- fixed problem with Lookup Fields- fixed problem with compare BCD in Delphi 2005- fixed problem with copy selected block cell in clipboard- fixed wrong left position of horizontal scrollbar after changing internal layout of TfcGrid- fixed wrong setting of MakeTotal when collaps(expand) value- remove russian symbols from form- fixed bugs in Export

What is new in the version 4.4---------------+ added support for CodeGear RAD Studio 2007+ improved speed of PDF, HTML, RTF, XML, ODS, ODT exports+ added TfrxReportPage.BackPictureVisible, BackPicturePrintable properties+ added rtti for the TfrxCrossView.CellFunctions property+ added properties TfrxPDFExport.Keywords, TfrxPDFExport.Producer, TfrxPDFExport.HideToolbar,TfrxPDFExport.HideMenubar, TfrxPDFExport.HideWindowUI, TfrxPDFExport.FitWindow,TfrxPDFExport.CenterWindow, TfrxPDFExport.PrintScaling+ added ability recompile frxFIB packages in "recompile wizard"+ added ability to set color property for all teechart series which support it+ added, setting frame style for each frame line in style editor+ added TfrxPreview.Locked property and TfrxPreview.DblClick event+ added 'invalid password' exception when load report without crypt+ added new parameter to InheritFromTemplate (by default = imDefault) imDefault - show Error dialog, imDelete - delete duplicates, imRename - rename duplicates+ added property TfrxRTFExport.AutoSize (default is "False") for set vertical autosize in table cells* redesigned dialog window of PDF export* improved WYSIWYG in PDF export- fixed bug, the PageFooter band overlap the ReportSummary band when use EndlessHeight- fixed bug with lage paper height in preview- fixed bug with outline and encryption in PDF export- fixed bug with solid arrows in PDF export- fixed bug when print TfrxHeader on a new page if ReprintOnNewPage = true and KeepFooter = True- fixed bug when used AllowSplit and TfrxGroupHeader.KeepTogether- fixed page numbers when print dotMatrix report without dialog- fixed bug with EndlessHeight in multi-columns report- fixed font dialog in rich editor- [fs] fixed bug when create TWideStrings in script code- fixed bug with dialog form when set TfrxButtonControl.Default property to True- fixed twice duplicate name error in PreviewPages designer when copy - past object- fixed bug with Preview.Clear and ZmWholePage mode- fixed bug with using "outline" together "embedded fonts" options in PDF export- fixed multi-thread bug in PDF export- fixed bug with solid fill of transparent rectangle shape in PDF export- fixed bug with export OEM_CODEPAGE in RTF, Excel exports- fixed bug with vertical size of single page in RTF export- fixed bug with vertical arrows in PDF export- fixed memory leak with inherited reports

We are happy to inform our users that FastReport is included now into the developer solution for one of the most popular open-source databases – Firebird (www.firebirdsql.org). IBPhoenix (www.ibphoenix.com), the main company behind Firebird development, released Firebird Developer Pack 2007, which contains all necessary tools for development applications with Firebird, and as important part includes FastReport Standard Firebird Edition. Using Firebird Developer Pack 2007 and FastReport, Firebird developers now can easily create fast, robust and affordable reporting and business intelligence solutions.

By high needs of the FastReport's customers our company releases set of OLAP-components for Delphi "FastCube". What the preferences of the FastCube?  high speed of the information processing by the our traditional code optimization and own data-keeping format high flexibility of data analisis in the power of full compatible and posibility of use script enjine FastScript - connect any complexity analisis! full integration with the FastReport. You can send results from the OLAP-cube to FastReport or, by other way,  call OLAP-cube from the FastReport. And - the main! Only for our customers - 30% discount to any edition of the FastCube!