Let me know your thoughts about this topic, how you would apply open source reporting to.
I hope I can study this further and apply in one of my future projects!
Then with the downloaded viewer (at point E above), you can open the populated report and then save in excel, pdf, word etc. Run the application, result should be as below:.Check the View (from Views/Home/Index), how it takes the report and publishes it via Razor.I edited manually one of their simple examples to fit my requirements for the tutorial. The template of the report is an xml file, with frx extension, saved in wwwroot folder. Check the logic in the controller and also the service I use to populate the report (it differs from their example - I take a list as an input, not an XML file as opposed to their example).
Fastreport export to excel trial#
There is a report editor/designer, Fast Report Designer Demo for trial purposes. Clone their git repo, and see how it runs for theirĭata: the Web.MVC folder contains the relevant. Main difference to their tutorial is that I take data from my list, not the XML database of Northwind. I manually edited the sample report, to fit my sample data. There is an frx file, which is an XML document describing the report itself. Nuget Package - (take latest one for 2019)Ĭ. I have prepared a small tutorial which takes a list of employees and publishes a report with them.ī. The solution I am dealing here with comes from FastReport, which just has published its OpenSource version: In fact, all I need is a tool for my web applications - to be able to integrate in asp.net core, then generate a report according to template, and then export in pdf/excel. I know, there are other solutions such as Telerik and Syncfusion, but they seem to be expensive for my level. Being from the corporate accounting world, my tools are directed towards accountants and business users, which rely heavily on such reports, and I would like to see an open source/free reporting tool to serve this purpose. I have been looking for a solution for reporting, which is free/open source, and only the last week I found something worth mentioning.