Mike Benner : Report Builder

cfdocument, cfpdf, DDX and Coldfusion Report Builder, a lesson in hodge podge

Dec 23 by Michael Benner

Since the days of MX7 I have always had issues with CF's ability to properly build a dynamic PDF. FlashPaper always seemed to work better (made sense when Macromedia was in charge) but I thought for sure that PDF would "just work" when Adobe took over. I have been sadly mistaken in my thoughts and have experienced nothing but bug after bug.

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Did you ever get this working? I'm having all kinds of problems with the new CF 8 report builder. Namely, the internal routines that calculate the total page length completely ignore hard page breaks inserted in the report template. This makes it impossible for me to have a long detail section. The .cfr file is generated correctly, but the report won't run because the engine thinks it's larger than the page. Very frustrating!

Also, do you know any way to have one report call another report upon completion?

Thanks,
Randy

# Posted By Randy Martin | 4/29/08 3:39 PM

I have abandoned report builder as it would not meet my needs once things became complicated.

As for dynamic PDFs and DDX, it worked OK, but still lacked in functionality. we ultimately had to compromise and make the PDFs simpler. I have found myself doing most of the work CF with DDX as a helper. I am actually going out next week to spend some time with this client reworking the PDFs and will post my findings.

# Posted By Mike Benner | 4/29/08 10:15 PM

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