Charset and more..

[tony.tomov]

Hello,
I'm really impressed from what you do.

You maybe know this but:

1. When using utf-8 database the data is not displayed correct. To correct this I need to add this line in getDataFromMySqlDatabase function before we do the query:
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link);

I think that this is not a good solution. It is better to add a charset (or something else) property in the connection string.

2. If you support PHP PDO ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php ) , then this will open the door for a lot of vendor databases without a need to rewrite a code. In this connection I think that it will be better to separate the database connection string in another file, which then can be obtained as parameter. This will allow to run the the same report to a different hosts and databases without a need to make another report.

3. Any time line when will be the following features available:
- Support of interactive parameters
- Crosstab report

Keep the good work

Tony Tomov
TriRand Inc

[Vladimir]

Hello,

1. Ok, most likely it will be realized.
2. Thank you. We will learn the PHP PDO capability and make a decision.
3. We plan to include this functionality in the release version of the product (Autumn 2010).

Thank you.

[tony.tomov]

Hello Vladimir,
Thanks for the answer.

I noticed another problem:

None of the Total functions work.
You can easy reproduce this if you run the demo provided with the package

Select Invoices and then Invoices with groups

This is really serious problem and hope it will be corrected.


And another problem.
I try to open a table with more than a two million records - the program hangs and the only way to overcome this problem is to restart the computer

Regards
Tony

[Vladimir]

Hello,

Most likely we have time to implement these functions to the next prerelease in the end of June. After the next prerelease, weekly patches will be released each week.

Thank you.

[marcelbesteman]

Hello,

I am a registered user. I bought your product two days ago. I love the simplicity to design reports on your own (Windows) environment and deploy these reports on your Linux webserver by simply ftp upload in a subfolder. Great work!

I've discovered also some problems by saving a report (Report.mrt) in landscape. When I open this report in the designer again, it wil be opened in Portrait. The report property is still landscape, but you will see the report in portait. When you change the report property in portrait (because it was landscape) it will be visible in landscape!

I've also discovered that the Can Grow option is not always working properly. Even when I set this property to true, I see half of my wrapped line.

But now my real question: when you bought a license for report.fx can you also download new releases for the upcoming year?

Kind regards,

Marcel

[Andrew]

Hello,

I am a registered user. I bought your product two days ago. I love the simplicity to design reports on your own (Windows) environment and deploy these reports on your Linux webserver by simply ftp upload in a subfolder. Great work!

Thank you.

I've discovered also some problems by saving a report (Report.mrt) in landscape. When I open this report in the designer again, it wil be opened in Portrait. The report property is still landscape, but you will see the report in portait. When you change the report property in portrait (because it was landscape) it will be visible in landscape!

It is fixed. Fix will be available in the end of June in Beta 3.

I've also discovered that the Can Grow option is not always working properly. Even when I set this property to true, I see half of my wrapped line.

We know about this issue. It will be fixed a bit later.

But now my real question: when you bought a license for report.fx can you also download new releases for the upcoming year?

Yes, you can. During 12 months since the day of purchase you may download major and minor releases.

Thank you.

[tony.tomov]

Hello,

1. When using utf-8 database the data is not displayed correct. To correct this I need to add this line in getDataFromMySqlDatabase function before we do the query:
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link);

and the answer

1. Ok, most likely it will be realized.

I do not see any progress on this with the latest Beta3. Are any plans to have solution on this in the next release?

Kind Regards
Tony

[Andrew]

Hello,

I do not see any progress on this with the latest Beta3. Are any plans to have solution on this in the next release?

We are working in this direction. We will let you know a bit later whether this feature be available in September.

Thank you.