At work, I was required to create a report. We do not have
the ColFusion report tool so when we are creating reports we use
the <cfdocument> tags. I will explain now what my structure
was about. I was required to break down the students in a school by
grade then within each grade (1,2,3,etc), break them down by race
(white, hispanic, black, asin, pacific islander etc) then within
each race break them down by curriculum code (special ed, regular
ed, etc etc). So I created my structure and guys you should have
seen my smile when I dumped my structure and saw that beautiful
structure in blue and black font on my browser.......then my smile
was even wider (ear to ear) when i ran my query against the school
data and I got the correct results. My smile disappear when I
wanted to display that "crosstab" in my cfdocument. It looks and
sounds like if I needed to create a business object from scratch
but I really thought there was a way for me to manipulate the rows
and columns of an html table dynamically according to the data that
they were receiving form my structure.
After 7 days of my time a two projects backed up for the
company my boss asked to stop and after analyzing from top to the
bottom the case we both concluded that it was a nightmare to do
unless we had a reporting tool. I can't stop thinking aobut this
problem even though it was 3 weeks ago. I even dream about the
freaking sutuation. I want to get it done! I know I am being hard
on myself but you guys understand the developer's pride, specially
if that developer is a "rookie" like me. So I am posting this here
to see if someone gives me an idea for me to get this done. Even
though it's in a drawer I want to put my teeth on that "bone"
again! The format of my document was just as follows: a) Setting my
variables and functions, b) creating the structure c) HTML crap c)
cfoutput and cfdocument tags and within then the header of my
report, an a table to hold my values. That's where my smile
disappeared for almost 2 weeks!
If someone has some insights on this matter, I'd really
appreciate it!
Thanks!
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