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Released on November 2, 2021

New: can Get PDF directly from report templates using the API

The QDV API IEstimate class contained a method named GetReportWorkbook() to get a SpreadsheetGear Workbook from any report (PFL file). It has been enhanced with a new method: GetPdfFromReport() which returns a byte array as an image of the PDF file. This new method delivers exactly what you would get when exporting to PDF from the user interface, in the report generator.

Change: ‘Throughput’ becomes ‘Ratio’ in the Formula_For_Quantity field

About 6 months ago, in a beta version 7.21 we added the ability to access the throughput directly from the Formula_For-Quantity field. The name used there was [Throughput] but at this time we wanted to use [Ratio] instead and prevented [Ratio] from being used in variables-for-set field. Unfortunately, by mistake, we didn’t impose [Ratio] in the Formula_For-Quantity field. This is done now.

For beta users who may have used [throughput] in this field, there is no automatic adaptation, you’ll have to change [Throughput] into [Ratio]. We decided to use [Ratio] because this word exists in many languages. The Formula_For-Quantity field being not translated it appears the same for all user-interface languages.