generate PDFs of each individual report, merge into one PDF.
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From: E C list
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: Best Practice for a long report
I inherited an application that needs more than a little work. But there is an immediate need. They need to generate a report that will be printed...its basically a week planner for several hundred conference attendees showing the workshops they'll attend, etc...
I never really ran across a problem like this-- I need to generate the finished report with everyone's planner page so that it can be downloaded and printed and included in their folders conference welcome packages.
The trouble is that its slow to generate even a single attendees page...there's alot of CF logic...so to do even a few dozen of the pages could potentially timeout the server.
What would be the best way to handle the report. Its going to have to be generated several times in the next few weeks...so it would be best if I could write something that slowly generates the report without timing out...and leaves a finished product that could be download in a click or a few clicks. I initially thought I would just schedule a task that would run every so often and append x number of pages to a file or across several files (maybe alphabetical by first letter of last name?) but thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has better ideas. Maybe I am working too hard...
Thanks.
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