1. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Designing & Building Structured Business Reports with ColdFusion MX 7 Adam Lehman ColdFusion Specialist

2. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Today’s Discussion  What are the benefits over traditional reporting options?  How easy is it to create structured business reports in ColdFusion?  Demo  Q&A

3. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Structured Data on the Web – Today’s challenge Building reports with HTML is difficult and time consuming Poor quality results Not printable or portable Costly third party add-ons, poor integration The Challenge

4. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 3 Parts of Reporting  Reporting is a core part of ColdFusion  No need for additional server software! Report BuilderCFR FileReport Engine DesignDefineDeliver.cfr ColdFusion Server

6. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Report Engine  Built into the core of ColdFusion MX 7  Binds data, parameters with CFR  Generates PDF, FlashPaper & Excel

9. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.  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! Demo  Follow along with your instructor as we explore the ColdFusion Report Builder tool

10. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Benefits over external reporting solution Share variable scopes Familiar CFML language No added cost or installation and management No additional client software

12. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Next Steps  Download a free 30-day trial of ColdFusion MX http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html  Download the free ColdFusion MX 7 Report Builder http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html  Getting Started with ColdFusion MX 7 http://www.adobe.com/go/cfmx7_getstarted http://www.adobe.com/go/cfmx7_getstarted

13. 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.