Presenter: Dean Harmon
Reviewed by Sheila Handler, JDT Technologies, Ltd. This session was given by the guy who actually wrote the code for this feature. You can't do better than that! The room was packed. There are two tags, one old and one new. New tag: <cfdocument format="flashpaper | pdf"> Old tag: <cfreport> This has been in ColdFusion since ColdFusion 3, where it invoked Crystal Reports. In ColdFusion MX 7, it has its own reporting engine and a tool (that Harmon wrote) to help you set up the report. It can produce reports as PDF/FlashPaper/Excel. The template it uses is a .cfr. The ColdFusion Report Builder is an executable, and only runs on Windows platforms. Harmon seems to think it's an improvement that you don't have to learn another tool, but this IS another tool. Harmon mentioned font management and how to tell ColdFusion where to find your fonts. For non-English fonts, the system needs this help (and even more so for *nix systems). Font management is handled in the ColdFusion Administrator. I was more interested in PDF and we spent more time on CFReport and the new builder tool, but all in all this was a good presentation.