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Title: Designing


1
Designing Building Structured Business Reports
with ColdFusion MX 7
  • Adam Lehman
  • ColdFusion Specialist

2
Todays Discussion
  • What are the benefits over traditional reporting
    options?
  • How easy is it to create structured business
    reports in ColdFusion?
  • Demo
  • QA

3
Structured Data on the Web Todays challenge
The Challenge
  • Building reports with HTML is difficult and time
    consuming
  • Poor quality results
  • Not printable or portable
  • Costly third party add-ons, poor integration

4
The ColdFusion MX 7 Solution
  • High-quality, structured business reports in the
    context of your applications
  • ColdFusion Report Builder for fast easy report
    design
  • Seamless integration into your existing web
    applications

5
3 Parts of Reporting
  • Reporting is a core part of ColdFusion
  • No need for additional server software!

.cfr
ColdFusion Server
6
Report Builder
  • Free Windows-based report design tool
  • Included with all ColdFusion installations
  • Download the latest version from Adobe.com
  • Features
  • Banded design metaphor
  • Wizards for common tasks
  • Property inspector
  • Live preview
  • Integrated help

7
Report Template
  • New file type - .cfr
  • Call CFR pages directly from the browser
  • No plug-ins to intall
  • Binary format
  • Edit with the ColdFusion Report Builder tool

8
Report Engine
  • Built into the core of ColdFusion MX 7
  • Binds data, parameters with CFR
  • Generates PDF, FlashPaper Excel

9
Demo
  • Follow along with your instructor as we use the
    ColdFusion Flex Application Wizard to build a
    complete ColdFusion powered Flex database front
    end (supporting data retrieval, insert, update,
    and delete) all without writing a single line
    of code!
  • Follow along with your instructor as we explore
    the ColdFusion Report Builder tool

10
Benefits over HTML Reports
  • Improved user experience
  • Pixel perfect layout control
  • Printable and portable
  • Automatic formatting of groups and totals
  • Multi-columns, paper sizes

11
Benefits over external reporting solution
  • Share variable scopes
  • Familiar CFML language
  • No added cost or installation and management
  • No additional client software

12
Next Steps
  • Download a free 30-day trial of ColdFusion MX
    http//www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.
    html
  • Download the free ColdFusion MX 7 Report
    Builderhttp//www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/do
    wnloads.html
  • Getting Started with ColdFusion MX
    7http//www.adobe.com/go/cfmx7_getstarted

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