Add text before a report is generated.

[baserath]

I am new to coldfusion so please forgive me. I was wondering if there is a way to insert text into a coldfusion report before it is rendered in either flashpaper or pdf formats. I was needing a way to add a remark to a report before it was printed but the remark does not need to be stored.

The basis of my question is MS Access. My experience in access reports was that if I had a undefined in access it wouldprompt me for that data before it would generate the report and I was wondering if it is possible to do the same thing in a coldfusion reoprt.
Thanks
Shawn

 

[imstillatwork]

how are you building the reports? we need details, but yes, it should be very easily possible.

 

[TruthInSatire]

it isn't part of the cfdocument or cfreport tags. You have to check for the data first. for example...

1 run query and set default flags
<cfset error = false>

2 check query for required data (which should be done when the data is inserted in the first place)
<cfif not len(trim(myQuery.colName))>
<cfset error = true>
<cfset errorMsg = "oops, you forgot 'colNameHere'">
</cfif>

3 check to be sure error is eq to false
<cfif not error>
display report
<cfelse>
<cfoutput>
#errorMsg#
</cfoutput>
</cfif>

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