Fast ReportsReviews of fast-report.com

Fast Reports is a great replacement for Crystal Reports. Concepts are very similar although the implementation details are different, and do take some getting used to. Documentation is good; more practical examples would be nice. There's a support forum where you can post problems you're having, and generally you'll get answers from other users or FR staff within a day or so.

We bought Fast Reports VCL to replace the old Crystal Reports VCL that we used to integrate reporting into our application. The programming required to integrate it was successful and was no more complex than working with the old Crystal Reports VCL component. Once designed, Fast Reports reports actually run faster than equivalent Crystal Reports, with at least the same level of functionality. But despite all these positives, I'm only giving the Fast Reports VCL a 4-star review because of the steep learning curve for designing reports - we feel that the v2026.1.7 interface for designing reports is less intuitive than the equivalent Crystal Reports designer. This isn't really a problem for the majority of report which tend to be quite simple, but should your report design require anything out of the ordinary or complex, there can be a steep learning curve, so that even with all the tutorials and help pages that are available, programming experience becomes helpful.

The things that I like: - simple to use - I can build (paste) my own queries - rarely need sub-reports - can code in C# in the report (to get source data or control the look of the report) I think that documentation and support could be a little bit better.

Having used Crystal Reports with Delphi a long, long time ago decided to try out Fast Reports. It took a bit of figuring out but after you understand all the bands and what versatality that brings to generating your reports it becomes a breeze. The fact that you can link your frxDBDataSets to any datasource make it easy to create reports. The use of variables and specifying the variables from within Delphi code adds to making single reports more versatile. For instance you can create Master/Detail reports and then switch off the detail to only display the master. Love it.

Conocí Fast Reports para VCL hace 5 años, en un proyecto con Delphi e Intraweb, y descubrí una herramienta eficiente y flexible. Por eso, cuando necesité una herramienta para un proyecto en .NET, decidí probarlo. El principal cambio que noté fue en el diseñador, que pasaba a ser independiente del IDE: un acierto, ya que no se bloquea el IDE mientras se diseña el informe. En cuanto a sus prestaciones, la característica principal es que genera informes basados en bandas, lo cual es muy natural si la información sale de una Base de Datos (eran todos mis casos). La disposición de las bandas es muy intuitiva; la colocación de los diferentes controles (texto, imagen, RTF, etc.) es sencilla y flexible y permite, entre otras cosas, impresión condicional tanto de las bandas como de los campos. Muy útil. Dispone de suficientes controles para crear informes vistosos. En cuanto a los tipos de banda, están todos los necesarios: cabecera y pie de informe, cabecera y pie de página, encabezados de columnas, datos maestros, datos de detalle... Asimismo, permite simular la salida con datos reales (ejecutando la consulta de Base de Datos subyacente con valores de selección fijos), sin necesidad de ejecutar el programa que utiliza el report. Es otro acierto, que ahorra tiempo de desarrollo. Por poner un punto negativo, la generación de los enlaces a datos es, a mi gusto, poco intuitiva. No obstante, con ayuda de la documentación (en línea y PDF) se consigue enseguida. Yo lo he utilizado casi siempre con consultas Maestro-Detalle, con encabezados y totalizadores a varios niveles, y los resultados obtenidos siempre han sido excelentes. En resumen, una excelente herramienta para generar informes basados en Bases de Datos.

I choose fastReport, mostly because of it's Delphi-Forms like inheritance reports. This, really is a enhance in fast production reports; Some embeded components, are also really productive, like tables , pictures and parameters features are very easy and comprehensive.

Good product I use Fastcube to manage information in a user-friendly way and I have good results.

I use Fast Report for NET and I use it with Data Transfer Object. Nice report tools especially the inherits report, so we can have standard header or footer report and if we change the standard just change the base report.