Include a ColdFusion report template in another ColdFusion report template

Is there a way to include/wrap PDF data generated from a ColdFusion template inside another ColdFusion template, or a cfdocument tag?

I'm working with a system that has generates lots of different reports, some are generated from .CFR templates, others are created by cfdocument/cfdocumentitem tags with HTML inside.

What I need to do is to add a header and a footer to every report, which should look the same everywhere.

My first idea was to creat开发者_如何学运维e the header+footer as a separate .pdf file, adjust the scale/margins on the existing reports, and then use a DDX and a PageOverlay to merge the report with the header+footer file. However this does not work since ColdFusion does not support PageOverlay.

My second idea was to create a header and footer in HTML, then paste together header+content+footer. This works on the reports that are created from HTML but not on the ones that are created from .CFR templates, because I can't figure out a way to combine HTML code and generated PDF data in the same report. Rewriting all the reports as HTML is not an option.

Any ideas?

Which version of CF are you working with? You can now add header and footer to a PDF using CFPDF with addheader/addfooter attribute.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7995.html

You could use ColdFusion Report Builder tool itself to generate the above using sub-reporting concept. When you say Also the ColdFusion Report Builder tool helps to set common Header and Footer.

I think the Report Builder standard would be top down (Label & Values). Because it has a set bands for Report Header, Page Header, Column Header, Column Detail, Report Footer.