[thelist] Best Practice? (from DB --> Presentation)

[Bruce Heerssen]

I've used generator. It's an add-on to Flash to allow the movie to receive query data and do different stuff with it. It can do
graphs and charts. It's functionality is rather limited though - needs more development. I think MM plans to release something
code-named 'Harpoon' that does what generator does and more. I missed out on the beta program so I can't say much, but I think it's
geared specifically for coldfusion. It's supposed to be, like, *really cool* - I can't wait :)

As far as excel goes, it is possible to generate excel files on the fly using com objects. I've done this through CF and it's not
that hard. At least it's not if the excel files are relatively simple - I'm not sure how macros would figure into it, but it
probably isn't good.

Have a look at http://cfcomet.com for com objects.

-Bruce

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> Hey Ron -
>
> Two things I may suggest.. First is Crystal Reports.. It has hooks into
> most popular web-dev languages, and is fairly common and popular..
>
> The second, and this is a bit out there is CF5 - I've been reading up on
> it and am gonna start palying with it this weekend. It apparently has
> the ability to take recordsets and match them to a wide variety of
> graphs.. Some people said something about MM generator, which i have no
> clue about, but its something that might work for you :)
>
> .djc.
>
> "Luther, Ron" wrote:
>
> > Got any suggestions for techniques or technologies?  I think they might be
> > persuaded to live with a PDF file instead of a Powerpoint presentation file.
> > Technology/platform is fairly irrelevant - I don't care if I have to learn
> > something new.
> >
> > What would you do?  [Basically - I'm hoping someone will come back and say;
> > "look into {module_X or custom_tag_Y} - you feed your recordset in through
> > ASP/CF/PHP/CNN/IVs/??? and it lets you create nice business charts and
> > summary tables in a familiar format.]
>
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