Monday, December 01, 2003
Hot Features in Foxfire! 8.0
Here is a summary of just some of the hot features in Foxfire! 8.0:
1. Live Design surface area that previews your entire report instead of just the columns.
2. Drag and Drop fields into the detail area for adding new fields, sort orders and group breaks and re-ordering.
3. Report-specific settings. Change headers and fonts for individual data items on specific reports. You can even create new data items while building a report!
4. The Request Editor Workbench can be un-docked off the main preview page for easier previewing.
5. More group options including hiding automatic subtotals, custom formatting.
6. Data Item property sheets so changes can be made while looking at the report.
7. Support for Distinct Counts when building summary requests.
8. Our Distribution Utility makes it easier than ever before to integrate Foxfire! into an application!
9. The Import/Export and Batch features are directly built into the Request Manager so you don't have to leave what you're doing to get work done. You can even export a request directly to email to send it to others!
10. Powerful object model that makes it easier to do everything in Foxfire!
In fact, the object model is what was used to create Foxfire! 8.0's new live design surface area! Want to create your own User Interface? Just point it directly to the new Foxfire! Request object and away you go!
11. Fantastic new Expression Builder makes it easier to see what your data item will look like when it's being built!
We'll be drilling into this features more as the months go on. But try out Foxfire! 8.0 and you'll see why the world's easiest report writer just got a lot easier!
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1. Live Design surface area that previews your entire report instead of just the columns.
2. Drag and Drop fields into the detail area for adding new fields, sort orders and group breaks and re-ordering.
3. Report-specific settings. Change headers and fonts for individual data items on specific reports. You can even create new data items while building a report!
4. The Request Editor Workbench can be un-docked off the main preview page for easier previewing.
5. More group options including hiding automatic subtotals, custom formatting.
6. Data Item property sheets so changes can be made while looking at the report.
7. Support for Distinct Counts when building summary requests.
8. Our Distribution Utility makes it easier than ever before to integrate Foxfire! into an application!
9. The Import/Export and Batch features are directly built into the Request Manager so you don't have to leave what you're doing to get work done. You can even export a request directly to email to send it to others!
10. Powerful object model that makes it easier to do everything in Foxfire!
In fact, the object model is what was used to create Foxfire! 8.0's new live design surface area! Want to create your own User Interface? Just point it directly to the new Foxfire! Request object and away you go!
11. Fantastic new Expression Builder makes it easier to see what your data item will look like when it's being built!
We'll be drilling into this features more as the months go on. But try out Foxfire! 8.0 and you'll see why the world's easiest report writer just got a lot easier!
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