Creating reports with the ColdFusion MX 7 reporting

Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 reporting adds integrated business reporting to ColdFusion, providing access to important business data. ColdFusion MX 7 reporting consists of server-side runtime processing and a graphical user interface (GUI), called the Report Builder.

For information on installing the Report Builder, see Getting started.

This section describes how to use the Report Builder to define report definitions. The Report Builder is a Windows-only tool that lets you build banded reports. A banded report consists of multiple horizontal sections (bands), one band for each part of a printed report. For example, data and text in the report header band prints at the beginning of the report, data and text in the page header band prints at the beginning of each page, and data and text in the page footer band prints at the end of each page. In the middle of the report is the detail band, which, at runtime, contains one row for each row in the report's result set or database query.

The following figure shows the Report Builder workspace with a simple Employees by Department report:

The following figure shows a preview of that report in FlashPaper format:

This section contains the following discussions:

• Reporting features
• Reporting architecture
• Getting started
• Basic steps for creating reports
• Report definition guidelines
• Common reporting tasks and techniques
• Using the Report Creation Wizard
• Using the Query Builder
• Using CFML in reports
• Using charts
• Using subreports

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