Creating a report with Coldfusion

[mmemon]

Hello,

Can you use Crystal reports with Coldfusion. I have 8.5 and we have a coldfusion application that needs to call a .rpt file and export it to pdf.

Can this be done?

 

[IdoMillet]

Yes, it can be done. If you wish to develop this functionality yourself, you need to get the developer (or advanced) edition of Crystal and use the runtime components.

There are also several 3rd-party report managers (see list at:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html),

including my Visual CUT software, that can accept a command line call from another application (asp.net, PHP, ColdFusion, ...) and undertake the requested operation for you.

The things you should be looking for are the ability to accept command line arguments (rpt file path & name, parameters, user id, password) and generate not only the exported file but also status indicators for success/failure so your application knows when processing is completed (it's time to redirect the user to the resulting pdf file), etc.

hth,
- Ido

CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[mmemon]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I am not sure how I would export the file to pdf. In VB.net, the object model has methods for coding the export to pdf but I haven't been able to find any code for Coldfusion. I found the code for retrieving the file but I am unfamiliar how I would handle after that...

Michele