Contribute itself is not a true CMS - in terms of features anyway!
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From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 14:20
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CF CMS recommendation
Have you also looked into using Contribute? For our www web site, we
are
I am trying the following but it is not populating the .csv file ?
Instead I am getting the following error
Connection to LDAP Server failed
The error occurred in cfldap10.cfm: line 11
9 : cfldap action=query
10 : name=adresult
11 : attributes = cn, mailNickname, proxyAddresses
Hi all,
I'm using the ColdFusion built-in security framework
(cflogin/cflogout) for a small application.
I can check if an user has a role by using the isUserInRole function.
Is there any way to get a list of all roles for an user?
Thanks.
First, make sure your username is a domain account that has access to
view the IT OU in AD. If that doesn't help, then remove the filter and
specify only the cn attribute.
Also, make sure you have specified a domain controller. If you have a
different, working, CFLDAP tag, just use it and
If the dbs are on the same server, and the connected user has the
correct rights, you would just need to qualify the table names with
the db names...
SELECT FROM db1.table1 INNER JOIN db2.table2 ON
I believe the above will work for MySQL...in MS-SQL, you will have to
also include the
Have you also looked into using Contribute? For our www web site, we
are probably going to use that rather than a packaged, or home-built,
CMS.
M!ke
That's what is being used now. I am not fond of it. It does not play well with
CF. (Which IMHO is funny since it runs on CF) Also, I often have
That's what is being used now. I am not fond of it. It does
not play well with CF. (Which IMHO is funny since it runs on
CF) Also, I often have to clean up the html (not as bad as
frontpage tho) and way too much inline CSS
You do know you can control the use of inline CSS, right?
In my
It runs on CF? eh?
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From: Mark Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 15:18
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CF CMS recommendation
Have you also looked into using Contribute? For our www web site, we
are probably going to use that rather than a packaged, or
I query a database and receive multiple rows of data. Now I need to do
some conditional math on one of the columns. I would do this in the
initial query but I can't.
I tried to see if I could do an update on the column with a cfquery on
the record set. Sadly, update doesn't work in Query of
Show us your query and what you want to do - mathematically.
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From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 16:37
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Can I change query results?
I query a database and receive multiple rows of data. Now I need to do
some conditional
Hey Mike,
We are considering this as well. I have not been able to find an upgrade
path from CFMX7 Standard to Enterprise, have you?
On 3/24/06, Mike Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all. I currently have CF Standard up and running on a production
server. The client downloaded the
Oooh...
I forgot about that option. I'll give it a shot and see how it works.
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From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
There is a path, I think it is 2699 retail or something like that. I
believe it is the new license gets the Enterprise stuff, can anyone
confirm? (going by how the trial works, enterprise back to developer,
etc)
Eric J. Hoffman
It runs on CF? eh?
The Contribute Publishing Service uses an embedded CF server, yes. CPS isn't
required to use Contribute.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our training centers in
The QuerySetCell function should work, if you use the row_Number
parameter (loop over all rows):
http://techfeed.net/cfQuickDocs/?querysetcell
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From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:37 AM
I query a database and receive multiple
Well, so it runs on Java ;-) using CF as the application?
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From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 16:56
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CF CMS recommendation
It runs on CF? eh?
The Contribute Publishing Service uses an embedded CF server, yes. CPS
Well, so it runs on Java ;-) using CF as the application?
Yes, it contains enough of JRun and CF to run the CF scripts that it comes
with. You can also extend some of those scripts to provide additional
functionality. You can't, however, write your own CF code and run it on CPS.
Dave Watts,
I believe it is the new license gets the Enterprise
stuff, can anyone confirm? (going by how the trial works,
enterprise back to developer, etc)
Yes, whenever you change your serial number, you get the functionality
allowed by that license. However, a lot of the value of an Enterprise
I query a database and receive multiple rows of data. Now I
need to do some conditional math on one of the columns. I
would do this in the initial query but I can't.
I tried to see if I could do an update on the column with a
cfquery on the record set. Sadly, update doesn't work in
Can don't you derive the computed column in the SQL statement itself?
Let the db do the heavy lifting.
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From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:37 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Can I change query results?
I query a database and receive multiple
No, but there's a workaround.
What I do is I stick the role list in the name of cfloginuser, once the
user has been authenticated, like so cfloginuser name=userName|role
list. Later, when I want to get the role list of the user, I do this
ListGetAt(GetAuthUser(),'|').
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Contribute itself is not a true CMS - in terms of features
anyway!
Sure it is. It may be on the low end, but you can certainly consider
Contribute (especially with CPS) to be a CMS. You can set up workflow,
notifications, etc.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig
I'm more interested in why you can't do the calcs in your original
query. Why don't you post the query and tell us what the calcs you'd
like to do look like. I'll bet we can figure a way to get it done in the
query.
--Ferg
That makes sense. My client is mainly looking at the upgrade to take
advantage of the supposed increase and multiple thread runs for cfdocument.
So from what the folks here have mentioned, it sounds as though we can
purchase the Enterprise license, pop the key in and take advantage of that
Okay I have now a need to implement a Captcha type validation.
It seems my forms are getting spammed.
I know it has been discussed in the past as I also have searched
the archives.
Which captcha functionality do you use and the pros/cons?
Thanks!
Cons:
Captcha's have accessibility problems. Unless you also implement a spoken
system (where the system speaks the letters to be typed), a blind person
cannot use your system.
I ran into the same problem with my comment form on my new blog. I
ultimately decided to go with a
The query is a massive query involving an inner and a few outer joins
with several conditionals around the joins. Because of new
requirements, I have to add four more tables to this beast of a query
so that I could let the DB do the math. If you have ever dealt with a
query that involves inner and
Sounds like you need a data warehouse. On line transactional data model
is never efficient in pulling back by massive, additive type of data.
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From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Can I change query
I have a question related to this. When you get into a situation where
you have numerous joins in one query, are you better off breaking the
mess into several database Views and simplifying the query? Could you
realize speed gains?
Lee Surma
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From: Phill B
Hi,
I'm thinking about a solution that will allow me to have several CF
sites sharing some templates in common
in some special directory.
Defining a pseudo directory in IIS for every site is not really a
problem, but what would be a simple
and convenient way for the common templates to get the
Here is an article I just did on regex java objects in CF.
http://www.burnette.us/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/23/Using-Java-RegEx-in-ColdFusion-App
The results were a little surprising to me. CF Tags did better when processing
a million lines in 265 files but the java objects did better when
Why not just assign a mapping in each CF app that points to the common
directory? Automatically gets the App and Sess scope when called.
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Having a common
Why not just assign a mapping in each CF app
Why not indeed ? I'll try this ;-)
Thanks.
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Thanks.
Hi,
I'm thinking about a solution that will allow me to have
several CF
sites sharing some templates in common
in some special directory.
Defining a pseudo directory in IIS for every site is not
really a
problem, but what would be a simple
and convenient way for the common templates to
If your using cfinclude just use a simple variable. If doing cfhttp use
url variables.
Why does this seem difficult to you?
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Isn't that what custom tag paths and cf server mappings are for?
Well, the problem is that my modules are not custom tags.
Most of them for instance are called inside an iFrame.
Each module is in the admin directory, and the Application.cfm template
checks for users logged
and CFINCLUDE
Why does this seem difficult to you?
Because I'm not using includes nor cfhttp.
These are plain vanilla CF templates that count on the application.cfm
to set a whole bunch of variables and parameters.
Every set of templates is a sub application. Ie: select a user in the
database, edit him,
I have a null value being returned from a query. I would like to catch it
and give it a value before proceeding.
So, assuming that CF returns a null value as a null string, I tried the
following:
cfif len(expr3) eq 0
CFSET expr3 = 0
/cfif
Also
cfif expr3 =
CFSET expr3 = 0
The results were a little surprising to me. CF Tags did
better when processing a million lines in 265 files but the
java objects did better when processing 1 large file (100MB).
That's very interesting. Looking at your results, I'd think Perl is
faster than both. But I haven't tested it.
I use len ( trim ( the_null_value ) ) often and it's never failed.
Any chance the value returned is actually 'NULL'? Try dumping expr3,
but wrap the output with some sort of delimiter so you can tell
whether there's any space, maybe...
On 3/24/06, Richard Colman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have
cfif NOT len(trim(expr3)) will ctach NULLs
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If the value is a Query value two options you could possibly do
CFOUTPUT QUERY=myQ
!--- Assign value to a new variable ---
CFSET myNewVar = myQ.expr3
!--- Run validation for Null and 0 ---
cfif len(expr3) EQ 0 OR expr3 EQ
cfset myNewVar = 0
cfelse
cfste myNewVar =
Did that, no spaces ...
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From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:48 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CFIF and null values
I use len ( trim ( the_null_value ) ) often and it's never failed.
Any chance the value returned is actually
What is the data type of the field in the database? If it is a char, it
could be an empty string of the length of the field specification, ie
char(10). In which case, adding a trim to the function should work -
trim(len(expr3)) eq 0
Steve
Richard Colman wrote:
I have a null value being
Here's a blurb on some job postings we're putting out on net that someone in
our group might be interested in:
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Health and Social Services is looking for talented software developers with
all levels of experience. Our
I have a null value being returned from a query. I would like
to catch it and give it a value before proceeding.
So, assuming that CF returns a null value as a null string, I
tried the following ...
CF does return NULL values as empty strings (not null strings, since there
are no such
I've found that it's a good practice to trim any strings whose length
is being tested - especially when testing for zero-length. You never
know when a space is going to sneak in there and I find random spaces
that I'm not expecting to be a very time consuming thing to debug
because it's never the
Use the isNull() function directly in the SQL.
Mike
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From: Steve Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:50 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CFIF and null values
What is the data type of the field in the database? If it is a char, it
could be an
but what would be a simple
and convenient way for the common templates to get the application name
it was called from
and set the proper application and session variables ?
By calling the template from the application. Viola your done!
If you include any template from a virtual directory it
cfif NOT len(trim(expr3))CFSET expr3 = 10/cfif
cfoutputexpr3=[#expr3#]br/cfoutput
Results in:
expr3=[]
on the web page.
I can see the NULL in the database. Datatype is SQL-Server numeric.
I am mystified why this does not work Maybe a typo??
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From: Bryan
cfif expr3 =
This should be 'eq' not '='. You knew that, I'm sure, just a slip. :)
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Use the isNull() function directly in the SQL.
FYI, coalesce() is ANSI standard, isNull() is proprietary Microsoft
syntax.
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www:
They are called in iFrames, by url or by forms.
Ahh, by using iFrames you are making new requests. My first thought is to call
a façade template inside the application that simply includes the common
template from the shared or mapped folder. But I'm sure there are other ways
to skin this
Try this, works for me all the time
cfif trim(queryname.expr3) is
cfset newvar = 0
cfelse
cfset newvar = queryname.expr3
/cfif
cfoutput#newvar#cfoutput
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From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
If you include any template from a virtual directory it will
automatically be in the application
and session scope of the application that included it.
As I said, I do not include the templates but run them as part of the
application.
However, I've found a place in my app where most of them
On 3/23/06, wolf2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I still wonder why the cflogin cookie includes the full login info
(username/password base64 encoded), what does it need to then?
I stand corrected again!
I did further testing and the cflogin/cfloginuser code will
automatically login the user
Ahh, by using iFrames you are making new requests.
Exact.
My first thought is to call a façade template inside the application
that simply includes the common template from the shared or mapped folder.
This is the solution I'm testing, thanks.
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ColdFusion Server is broken with respect to the CFLOGIN security framework
working on a clustered system with failover. The reason is that the
authentication cookie contains the authentication information but not any
authorization (roles)
For the record, this worked. Apparently, changing the variable name is
required of CF can't keep track ot it.
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From: Michael E. Carluen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:12 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFIF and null values
Try this, works for me
Actually, if your using the expr3 variable on cfoutput query=queryname ,
just be mindful of where the var is coming from- either from a query column
or as locally cfset var... always helps to be a little bit more explicit.
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From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I'm not mistaken, *authorization* (not authentication) can't work across
multiple CF servers -- clustered or not -- because there's no mechanism for
specifying *roles* on any computer other than the one on which CFLOGINUSER was
executed.
It doesn't matter whether you're using cookies or
one of the difficulties in choosing a cms is to get your head round what
your (or your clients) real requirements are.
You really need to play with some to find out if it suits you.
The bad news is that this represents a huge time investment.
My approach was to start with a fairly simple CMS
Sorry, you are right. Meant to mention that, but forgot.
Mike
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From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFIF and null values
Use the isNull() function directly in the SQL.
FYI, coalesce() is ANSI
Has anyone ever had any trouble installing an MX7 instance in
multi-server configuration? I have a developer machine:
WinXP SP2
CFMX7 Multi-server
IIS 5.1 (if that matters)
The machine is currently running 3 instances of MX7 and 1 instance of
MX6.1 that is deployed as a war file. I'm trying to
Can you please help me to create java String from coldfusion srting?
I tried
cfset ul = CreateObject(java, java.lang.String)
cfset ul.init(#myString#)
but it returns the following error: Unable to find a constructor for class
java.lang.String that accepts parameters of type (
CF strings ARE Java Strings. You needn't do anything special.
cfset s = my string /
cfoutput#s.indexOf(s)#/cfoutput
cheers,
barneyb
On 3/24/06, Oleg Gunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you please help me to create java String from coldfusion srting?
I tried
cfset ul = CreateObject(java,
Can you please help me to create java String from
coldfusion srting?
I tried
cfset ul = CreateObject(java, java.lang.String)
cfset ul.init(#myString#)
but it returns the following error: Unable to find a
constructor for class java.lang.String that accepts
parameters of type (
Nevermind, I screwed up in another place. Please ignore this thread.
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Information Technology Services
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From:
You are absolutely right. I needed substring method.
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From: S.Isaac Dealey
Ahh... I'd use mid() instead of string.substring() ... it's less
likely to confuse an entry-level cf coder and although BlueDragon
likely implements strings similarly, I'm not certain it does. Same
with railo.ch or any other cfml engine that might come later.
You are absolutely right. I needed
On 3/24/06, Hugo Ahlenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| FarCry 3.0 is aimed at revising FarCry's old techie UI to a much
| more appealing Glamourous UI:
| http://docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/display/FCDEV30/Admin+UI
|
| It's probably fair to say the solution is more on the complex side to
| Um.. FarCry 3.0 [1] was released in November 2005. We're just about
| to release 3.0.1, followed by a webskin for Mollio [2] (a template
| resource we released to the public at the webDU [3] conference
| 1-March)
Oh. I have missed this - and the FarCry web-site all mentions betas...
The
On 3/23/06, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have the username and password, why don't you log him in
yourself?
What do you mean?
Thanks.
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Hi Mike
Going to use a different approach
What code would I need to dump the following information from Active
Directory (CN, mailnickname, ProxyAddressses) to a .CSV file for all
users in a certain OU?
Any ideas?
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It is also pretty bad on the usability side of things. Loads of features
though.
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From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2006 19:18
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CF CMS recommendation
Hell no, it aint! I must have missed the budget part.
I use CommonSpot from PaperThin. This is CF CMS systems. Can be a little
pricy. Software starts at $20,000
Steve LaBadie
Raven Technology
http://www.ravenpcs.com
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From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk
Here is a link to instructions on how to get CF5 and MX7 cohabiting on the same
server under Apache and Windows 2000.
a
href=http://danmacs.blogspot.com/2006/03/deploying-coldfusion-5-and-mx7-on-same.html;
Deploy CFMX7 and CF5 on same server/a
hope this is of some use to someone.
Dan
one of the difficulties in choosing a cms is to get your head round what
your (or your clients) real requirements are.
You really need to play with some to find out if it suits you.
The bad news is that this represents a huge time investment.
My approach was to start with a fairly simple CMS
Hello all. I currently have CF Standard up and running on a production
server. The client downloaded the trial version got it running, then
purchased the license and popped that on the server. We are thinking of
upgrading the server to CF7 Enterprise (mainly for the perfomance increase
for
If they're on the same server why not just cfinclude the form?
!//--
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web developer
ICGLink, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
615.370.1530 x737
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From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006
I'm building a site for a realtor who will be displaying real estate
listings on their website. Now, my company has an agreement with the local
MLS company that we get a nightly dump of their records so that we can have
a local copy of every listing in the middle Tennessee area.
I am storing just
I may not get all the attributes right, since I'm not connected to a
server right now...
cfldap
action=query
name=results
scope=subtree
base=ou=myOU,dc=domain,dc=com
attributes=cn,mailNickname,proxyAddresses
filter=((objectClass=User)(mail=*))
server=domcontroller
username=
password=
That code
If your business rule/model is that you must use CF then you are limited.
If want a best of breed CMS the you really need to look outside of the CF
sphere - this in itself does not mean you have to move away from CF as lots
of the enterprise tools allow you to use any and all technology you have.
Have you also looked into using Contribute? For our www web site, we
are probably going to use that rather than a packaged, or home-built,
CMS.
M!ke
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All you *need* to do is pop in the new license key. That will activate
the Ent-level features. You probably won't even need to restart the CF
services, but I would, just because.
However, if you want to use separate instances, you will need to
unistall, then re-install in the multi-instance
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