Browser based dynamic report generation

Here is what i want to do.
I want to allow our customers the ability, through an IE browser, authenticated to ColdFusion, to create their own reports through their own ColdFusion webpage.
-We will list or enable certain databases, certain tables and certain columns with in a table that a customer will have access to
-These columns will appear on a web page that our customers can access
-The customer will be able to see the table headings and drag and drop them into a query
-Once all of the columns are identify the customer can then create their own report
-This should work exactly the way that excel 7 works where you can attach the spreadsheet to a ODBC driver and pull all of the data from a database. the only difference here is that the customer can only see certain fields and although they are working in a hosted environment they can create their own database queries through their browser.
thank you.

It can be done. We do this where I work everyday. We call them Ad Hoc Reports. We have a table that holds all the tables and views they can report against (including columns). We have a interface allowing the users to enter report titles, subtitles, widths of columns, etc... We even have a parameters section where they can define items like [column] [equal to / like / less than / etc...] [value] with the columns being a drop down of valid columns. Based on the parameters they defined we build the SQL. We also show the SQL so that if they are fluent they can just enter in SQL and not bother with the parameters (which are basically just wizards for creating the SQL).
Its very powerful and complex but can be done. We use iText to generate our reports, cfdocument tag is way limiting. Hope this helps. Break it down to a wizard process for your first crack at it.
1. User selects table/view, enters report title, subtitle
2. Now that you have table, on the second page you can display columns they can select, give options to change label that appears on screen, so instead of seeing DOCNO they could enter in "Document Number" or something. On this page we also let them define sorting and if certain columns are numbers should they be sum'ed/averaged, etc at end of report
3. Define any additional paramerters or SQL editing
4. A detail screen showing everything, save it to database so the Ad Hoc can be ran by others "if marked public" and they don't have to keep entering in this stuff, especially if its a report they run often.

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Are report generation tools exclusively text-based?

Hi,
I'm using LabView 5.1.1, and have just explored the new (to me) report
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hours) it strikes me that it would be even better if I could add bitmaps
to the report. This would let me add pretty logos, but obviously we
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Allan Green
Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingha
m UK
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I work. I take that to be a healthy sign.
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I too have tried to use the report functions. They work fine for text only.
In the end I ended up scraping the idea and simply configured a vi (which i
called report.vi) to print at completion. I set the vi up with tables and
bitmaps the way i wanted it and called it as a sub vi (passing the data i
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I suppose you could hide some controls using attribute nodes (and maybe
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Cheers
John
Reinis Kanders wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On windows I have had success with using HiQ for report generation. I
> would manually create a template for a
> particular project, then send data using LV VI's to that template then
save
> it with different name or just print it.
> Using HiQ (free with LV 5.1) I was able to have pictures, graphs, you name
> it. Also since HiQ gets the actual data, then by saving HiQ file you do
> data logging as well, those HiQ reports can also be stored in database.
> I found HiQ approach to be more flexible than NI report generator,
only
> drawback is that it is not cross-platform portable. For cross-platform
> report generation I have been looking into some sort of XML based
approach.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Reinis Kanders
>
> "Allan Green" wrote in message
> [email protected]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using LabView 5.1.1, and have just explored the new (to me) report
> > generation tools. Handy though they are (I added the facility to print
> > results from my project in a nicely formatted report in just a couple of
> > hours) it strikes me that it would be even better if I could add bitmaps
> > to the report. This would let me add pretty logos, but obviously we
> > could do far more using LabView pictures/graphs etc.
> >
> > There is no reference in the documentation or on the NI web site as far
> > as I can tell, but I can't be the first programmer wanting to do this.
> > Any hacks out there?
> >
> > Best wishes to you all,
> >
> > Allan Green
> > Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering,
> > Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingham UK
> >
> > ==================================================================
> > My views and opinions are seldom that of the institution for which
> > I work. I take that to be a healthy sign.
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> >
> >
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Paul
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Hi,
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I hope this is useful also for somebody else.
Paulie

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Hi
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