Multiple queries in a single report?

Question

I'm having some issues with the ColdFusion Report Builder...
I have a database table called "Items" that includes fields
for Reviewer and Status. I want to create a report that will list a
reviewer, then express the number of items where the Status is
"open" as a total or record count. I want to do the same for total
items, and then express the number of "open" items as a percentage.
For example:
REVIEWER, OPEN ITEMS, TOTAL ITEMS, PERCENT OPEN
John Doe, 10, 20, 50%
Jane Smith, 15, 60, 25%
...and so on.
So far I've only been able to get my report to display the
recordcount of the entire query. In order troubleshoot the problem
I created a regular cfm page to do the same thing. Here's what I
did:
<cfquery name="getreviewers"
datasource="#APPLICATION.datasource#">
SELECT DISTINCT Reviewer
FROM Items
ORDER BY Reviewer
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="getreviewers">
<cfquery name="getopenitems"
datasource="#APPLICATION.datasource#">
SELECT Status
FROM Items
WHERE Status='open'
AND Reviewer = '#Reviewer#'
</cfquery>
<cfset open = getopenitems.recordcount>
<cfquery name="getallitems"
datasource="#APPLICATION.datasource#">
SELECT Status
FROM Items
WHERE Reviewer = '#Reviewer#'
</cfquery>
<cfset all = getallitems.recordcount>
<cfset percent = (open / all) * 100>
#getreviewers.DR_Item_Reviewer#, #open#, #all#,
#Round(percent)#%
</cfoutput>
That worked great, but as you can see I had to nest a couple
of queries inside a <cfoutput>. I don't know how to
incorporate this into the report builder, as it seems you can only
specify a single query. Another thing that occurs to me is perhaps
I'm going about this the wrong way. Is there perhaps a function
that will display things the way I want them without fussing with
multiple queries? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Answer 1

It seems like you are trying to do a subreport. You can nest
reports within the report feature...just check out the subreport
feature under the help section. If that doesn't help let me
know.