What's New in PHP Report Maker 3

Themes

More than a dozen of themes for your selection. You can choose the styles of the grid with matching colors in no time. You can easily tune the theme after choosing one or even create your own themes.

Menu Editor

With the new Menu Editor you have full control on the menu items. You can re-order the menu items, add your own menu items for external pages or custom URL and use submenus.

Note: The submenus will be generated by the graphical extension (previously graphical template) available for registered users only.

Optimized Extended Filters and Popup Filters

Now all the filters, including both Extended Filter and Popup Filters, are done by SQL, if your report uses popup filter and the report has a large number of records, it will run much faster than before.

Enhanced Extended Filters

Now any field in the report can be set as Extended Filter, and you can display them as a text box, a combobox, a listbox (multi-select selection list), checkbox or radio buttons. As before, you can use a default value as the default filter of the report.

Enhanced Advanced Security

Previously Parent User ID security was two level only. Now it is hierarchical, parent users can access the records owned by the child users of their child users, and there is no limit of levels. Dynamic User Level Security is also supported for better compatibility with PHPMaker project.

Sorting

Previously sorting must be preset in the source table of the reports, now you can use design-time and run-time sorting for both Detail/Summary reports and Crosstab reports. Mult-column sort is also supported.

Optimized Grand Summary Values

Previously the grand summary values were calculated based on report data during run-time, now they are calculated by SQL. This enhances performance of the reports and allows different summary values of the Value(Y) Axis in charts for the report.

Improved Query Builder

Better visual SQL query builder that allows you to build complex SQL queries via an intuitive visual query building interface more easily.

More

• Improved handling of date field as Series Field of Multi-Series charts
• MD5 and case-sensitive password
• Pager at top and/or bottom
• Site header logo and site footer text
• User Activated field (compatibility with PHPMaker project)
• Many other minor enhancements