There are a raft of reports that an online application can produce, all currently output as HTML. We're toying with the idea of outputting them also as .pdfs (for greater control over formatting and printer-friendliness), but are also aware that some people would like to be able to manipulate the data in Excel.
There doesn't seem to be any easy way of getting from one format to the other without having to open applications, cutting and pasting, formatting, etc, and this all needs to be done programmatically on the server. Is the best way of handling this to have a template that just grids the numbers, stores the resultant data as a large structure and WDDX it into a database. Then, when a user wants to create a report, depending on the output format specified, a routine could be called to take the data and write the files as required. Does that sound like the best way of doing it? I know it means keeping several different routines up to date if the report format changes, but is there any other option? Thanks -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental +44 (0)1695 51775 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
