Question

Does anyone have a tutorial or code samples on how to implement report generating with jqgrid and coldfusion.

I added a button to my grid but not sure how to process data any further. Excel report must be in new window popup.

Basically, my question is, can I capture the data from the grid itself or, do I take arguments from the grid and generate report on new coldfusion page using the same query as I use to generate the grid?

Thank you in advance.

Gena

).navButtonAdd('#pager',{caption:"To Excel", onClickButton:
            function(){
                    document.location.href=''  // call processing file
            },
            position:"last", title:'Export to Excel' }
        );

Answer 1

You’ll need to have your button call a new page that generates the Excel file. In the new page, re-run your query and then output to an HTML table with a content type of application/vnd.ms-excel or use <CFSPREADSHEET> to generate the Excel file from the new page.