ANN: ReportBuilder 23.0 is now available!February 4, 2025 ReportBuilder 23.0 is now available! This release focuses on UI look and feel with some fresh icons, as well as numerous other features throughout the product. We will be working hard on new blog posts and RBWiki articles to highlight some of the work that was done. See […] ANN: ReportBuilder 22.06 is now available including Delphi 12.2 support!October 11, 2024 ReportBuilder 22.06 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21942/reportbuilder-22-06-is-now-available-including-delphi-12-2-support Upgrade now! Merging Reports – Part 2, ArchivesJuly 23, 2024 Part 2: Merging Reports using the Archive Merging Utility In the first part of this series, we discussed how to merge reports using subreports. Today we are going to take a look at another method: Merging Archives. Generating a report as an archive file is a great […] ANN: ReportBuilder 22.05 is now available!July 19, 2024 ReportBuilder 22.05 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/FORUMS/discussion/21923/reportbuilder-22-05-is-now-available Upgrade now! Merging Reports – Part 1, SubreportsMay 8, 2024 In the reporting world, efficiency is key. Whether you’re a developer, designer, or end-user, the ability to merge multiple reports into a cohesive whole is a skill you’ll want in your arsenal. Imagine this scenario: You’ve meticulously crafted individual ReportBuilder reports, including data, event code, calculations, etc. — […] ANN: ReportBuilder 22.04 is now available including Delphi 12.1 support!April 9, 2024 ReportBuilder 22.04 is now available including support for the latest Delphi release, Delphi 12.1! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21886/reportbuilder-22-04-is-now-available-including-delphi-12-1-support Upgrade now! Helper RoutinesFebruary 29, 2024A common goal of component developers (like us) is simplifying the job of our customers (other developers) as much as possible. One of the best ways to accomplish this is by adding “helper routines” to the product to reduce the amount of time it takes to code an otherwise tedious task. Below are a couple […] EPC QR Codes with ReportBuilderJanuary 2, 2024 ReportBuilder 22 introduced a number of features to make the life of a report developer easier. One of those features is the ability to easily create an EPC compliant QR Code for making payments in many European countries. While it was possible to create an EPC QR Code in earlier […] ANN: ReportBuilder 22.03 is now available including Delphi 12 support!November 10, 2023 ReportBuilder 22.03 is now available including support for the latest Delphi release, Delphi 12! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21827/reportbuilder-22-03-is-now-available-including-delphi-12-support Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 22.02 is now available!June 9, 2023 ReportBuilder 22.02 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21785/reportbuilder-22-02-is-now-available Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 22.01 is now available!March 9, 2023 ReportBuilder 22.01 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21751/reportbuilder-22-01-is-now-available Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 22.0 is now available!February 10, 2023 ReportBuilder 22.0 is now available! For this release, we focused on a number of requested features as well as optimization and ease-of-use. We will be firing off new blog posts and RBWiki articles as fast as we can to highlight some of the work that was done. See the […] ANN: ReportBuilder 21.05 is now available!September 16, 2022 ReportBuilder 21.05 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21694/reportbuilder-21-05-is-now-available Upgrade now! Automatically Signing a PDF with ReportBuilderAugust 10, 2022Have you ever needed to be sure a document sent is the one being read? We all know that the Internet is a dangerous place for unprotected data. Transferring any un-encrypted data is fair game to be intercepted, stolen, or altered. Digital Signatures are an excellent way to avoid some of these problems. Digital Signatures […] ANN: ReportBuilder 21.04 is now available!May 26, 2022 ReportBuilder 21.04 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21594/reportbuilder-21-04-is-now-available Upgrade now! Email: Multi-ServiceJanuary 25, 2022One of the new and exciting features added for ReportBuilder 21 is the ability to register and use multiple email plugins at once. ReportBuilder has supported sending emails from within the product since version 10. This was done by registering a single Email Plugin, each of which supported a different email-sending technology. Initially it was […] ANN: ReportBuilder 21.03 is now available!January 21, 2022 ReportBuilder 21.03 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21594/reportbuilder-21-03-is-now-available Upgrade now! TLS Version and IndyJanuary 5, 2022 I was recently asked if the ReportBuilder Indy email plugin supports TLS version 1.2. The answer depended on whether Indy supports TLS 1.2, which thankfully it does! Many email providers (i.e. Gmail and Outlook) are now requiring the use of this version to connect to their SMTP servers. After researching a bit, I found […] ANN: ReportBuilder 21.02 is now available!September 16, 2021 ReportBuilder 21.02 is now available including Delphi 11 support! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21550/reportbuilder-21-02-is-now-available-including-delphi-11-support Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 21.01 is now available!August 4, 2021 ReportBuilder 21.0 is now available! Mainly bug fixes for this release. Be sure to use the latest version to ensure the fastest and most stable performance. See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21534/reportbuilder-21-01-is-now-available Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 21.0 is now available!May 20, 2021 ReportBuilder 21.0 is now available! We’ve added a bunch of new and exciting features for this release. Be on the lookout for more blog posts and Wiki articles to help familiarize yourself with this update. See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21504/reportbuilder-21-0-is-now-available […] ANN: ReportBuilder 20.04 is now available!October 2, 2020 ReportBuilder 20.04 is now available including Delphi 10.4.1 support! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21402/reportbuilder-20-04-is-now-available-including-delphi-10-4-1-support Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 20.03 is now available!June 2, 2020 ReportBuilder 20.03 is now available including Delphi 10.4 Sydney support! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21341/reportbuilder-20-03-is-now-available-including-delphi-10-4-sydney-support Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 20.02 is now available!February 7, 2020 ReportBuilder 20.02 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21278/reportbuilder-20-02-is-now-available Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 20.01 is now available!October 17, 2019 ReportBuilder 20.01 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21221/reportbuilder-20-01-is-now-available Upgrade now! ANN: ReportBuilder 20.0 is now available!July 31, 2019 ReportBuilder 20.0 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21156/reportbuilder-20-0-is-now-available Upgrade now! Ann: ReportBuilder 19.04 is now available!April 26, 2019 ReportBuilder 19.04 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21108/reportbuilder-19-04-is-now-available Upgrade now! RESTful ReportingMarch 15, 2019 The ReportBuilder REST Services components provide a RESTful platform to publish RB reports to mobile iOS and Andriod clients. Extending your existing Delphi desktop solutions via REST services is a great way to provide users with the mobile cloud access they expect. As a desktop developer, you may be thinking you lack the skills and/or time to implement such […] Ann: ReportBuilder 19.03 is now available!December 7, 2018 ReportBuilder 19.03 is now available including Delphi 10.3 Rio support! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21036/reportbuilder-19-03-is-now-available-including-delphi-10-3-rio-support Upgrade now! Ann: ReportBuilder 19.02 is now available!August 3, 2018 ReportBuilder 19.02 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/20964/reportbuilder-19-02-is-now-available Upgrade now! PDF/A and MetadataMay 31, 2018PDF/A is a very useful and popular format used for the long term archiving of digital documents. ReportBuilder 19 introduces numerous PDF/A related features including support for the PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3, and PDF/A-3 ZUGFeRD formats (PDF/A-1 format has been available since RB 14). PDF/A is highly restrictive in the features it allows and information it requires. […] Ann: ReportBuilder 19.01 now available!April 13, 2018ReportBuilder 19.01 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/20862/reportbuilder-19-01-is-now-available Upgrade now! Interactive PDF with ReportBuilder 19April 6, 2018ReportBuilder 16 introduced PDF form fields and checkboxes. This allowed for the creation of dynamic PDF forms that could be altered and printed with the user's custom data. ReportBuilder 19 includes a number of new ways to manipulate the existing form fields as well as the addition of PDF buttons. Form Field customization In the [...]New ReportBuilder Support Forums!March 6, 2018Along with the introduction of our new web site we would like to introduce the ReportBuilder Support Forums! The support forums provide a fast and friendly way to communicate with Digital Metaphors engineers and the ReportBuilder community. Use it to ask questions, get support, and find the latest information about ReportBuilder releases and fixes. Support […] Ann: ReportBuilder 19.0 now available!March 6, 2018February 16, 2018 ReportBuilder 19.0 now available! New features include: Designer - new AutoSave / Recovery for report layout - periodically autosave to AppData\Local\RBuilder\Report_autosave.rtm - clear on close of designer, but if crash the file remains - check for file when designer opens, prompt user to recover - RBuilder.ini Designer Preferences for AutoSave, AutoSaveInterval - new View | Margins for [...]Welcome!March 6, 2018Welcome to the new Digital Metaphors Web Site! The new web site is hosted on a brand new server and has been completely redesigned from the ground up to provide the best possible on-line experience. Feel free to stick around and browse the various sections and features. Also be sure to check out the following […]
