thisFile is just a temporary placeholder within the loop. You would do whatever checks were needed and keep appending mergeList with the paths to the files you wanted to combine.
-Justin On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:51 PM, michelle dupray <[email protected]> wrote: > > So for mergeList I would include all files that i want merged (those > required and optional) and thisFile I would include the the optional files? > I also have two sets of optional files cv 1 through 6 and appendix 1 through > 6. Can I use thisFile for both? > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> You'd probably want to build your merge list dynamically: >> >> <cfset mergeList = "" /> >> <cfloop from="1" to="6" index="i"> >> <cfset thisFile = "D:\uploads\FAD\#evaluate('cv' & i)#" /> >> <cfif fileExists(thisFile)> >> <cfset listAppend(mergeList, thisFile) /> >> </cfif> >> </cfloop> >> >> Then use #mergeList# as the "source" attribute for cfpdf since it >> should only include files that were uploaded and exist on the server. >> I'd avoid using evaluate() if possible though, I included it here for >> your existing variable names but you could do better using a structure >> to store the filenames instead. >> >> -- >> Justin Scott >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Michelle Dupray <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I have a form where people submitted pdf documents. I want to give them >> the option to merge pdf documents if possible. Not all the documents people >> submitted were required, some were optional. I'm noticing that when somebody >> did not submit an optional document the Merge Pdfs link doesn't appear and I >> presume it is because the system can't find the optional document. Is there >> anyway around this? In the code below #cv2# through #cv6#. Thanks in advance >> for your help! >> > >> > <cftry> >> > <cfpdf action="merge" source="D:\uploads\FAD\#cv1#, >> D:\uploads\FAD\#cv2#, D:\uploads\FAD\#cv3#, D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#cv4#, >> D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#cv5#, D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#project_desc#, >> D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#abstract_file#, >> D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#budget_file#, >> D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#bibliography#, >> D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\#appendices#" >> destination="D:\defaultweb\uploads\FAD\twoChaps.pdf" overwrite="yes"> >> > <a href="http://www.example.org/uploads/FAD/twoChaps.pdf"; >> target="_blank">Merged Pdf</a><cfcatch></cfcatch></cftry> >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/message.cfm/messageid:5196 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/unsubscribe.cfm
