COldfusion Reporting Platform

Hi Guys, For coldfusion , what is the best application (i.e  reporting builder ) that i can use to create reports and exported them  to Excel? Thanks.

Report Builder, but if you can afford it Crystal Reports is by far the best product on the market. If not then you could look into Jasper. -- Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/108193156965451149543 ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Thanks Andrew and i can call those reports in my coldfusion web site ?

>>Report Builder, but if you can afford it Crystal Reports is by far the best >Thanks Andrew > >and i can call those reports in my coldfusion web site ? Sorry another question do i need a site license ? i'll be the only one creating reports but my users will be using them ..

No, you need one license on the server. If you are referring to Crystal Reports. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- -- Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/108193156965451149543

Yes, Not 100% sure CF Report Builder will do exporting to excel as I don't use it much. But Crystal Reports depending on the version you buy, you will need to write a wrapper. I wrote one many years ago for CR8/9 but 10+ went away from com objects. Jasper is written in Java, and is what is baked into ColdFusion 7/8/9 Another thing that comes to mind is that Microsoft as part of their Visual Studio allows you to write Crystal Reports, not 100% sure on the license but I am sure you can use the license to create an application to use / distribute. But where I am leading there is that you can write a .Net library to accept what params you need and use it to generate the report. I wrote a wrapper for .Net back in the days before ColdFusion went 64bit, and I can't recall if I put this into my asreports on riaforge or not. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- i see.. Thanks a lot Andrew for those clarifications

Crystal Reports is the devil's spawn.  I would never recommend it to a beginner. Report Builder is more than adequate for most reports. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Scott <andrews@andyscott.id.au> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----