Installing Reports Builder

[Guest]

Hi,

I want to install Reports Builder, but I don't have ColdFusion on my machine, It's installed on a server that I access through a network, actually several. I write ColdFusion pages in Dreamweaver and then simply save them to a folder I make and test them. I have been building a reports tool by hand, and while having some degree of success( thanks in large part to this dev forum)., it is taking a long time. I would love to try out this tool, but I'm sure it won't install with out CF on my machine. So, my question is: Can I install a local version of CF on my machine to install and run the Reports Builder Tool, or will that screw things up, or even not work because the server has to be told to read the special tag? I am pretty sure we are running MX 7, but with so many servers, I'm not even sure who administrates the one(s) I use, and if they would even want to try it, with all the red tape to go through. Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

[LL]

You can download and install the Developer Edition of ColdFusion for free.
Please see https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en%5Fus&product=coldfusion

[Guest]

Hey LL@Work,

Thanks for your reply, I was intending to do that , but I wanted to know if it will work on the sever when I go to test? Does the server administrator have to do anything?

Steve

[LL · Accepted solution]

No,

When you have created your report in development, you can just upload the resulting .cfr to production.
The Report Builder is for the development environment and the .cfr is all that is needed for the runtime environment (assuming that your data sources match).

[Guest]

Hey LL@Work,

I'm up and running. Is there any way to turn off the watermark when I publish a report? Iv'e done a few tests and get the "mx7 developers edition, not for production use" across it.

Steve

[LL]

A standard license for ColdFusion will remove the Watermark