Unfortunately I don't need the data in that order, I just need the largest value of lvl so that I can use that as the colspan value at the top row of my table.
will ---- William H. Bowen Webmaster ALSTOM's T&D Energy Automation & Information Business "Your friendly neighborhood Webmaster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esca.com/ 425.739.3629 Voice 425.466.7016 Cell 425.739.3690 FAX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Maximum value of column in cfoutput > I'm not sure I entirely follow you, but couldn't you ORDER BY lvl DESC to > get the MAX lvl as the first record? > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > t. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William H. Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:29 AM > Subject: Maximum value of column in cfoutput > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have a column [ lvl ] being returned in a query that is a Count [ > > count(child.startbranch) AS lvl ]of another column. I need to be able to > > find the MAX of the returned column so that I can write colspans into a > > table I am building. > > > > Is there a way to get *essentially* MAX(lvl) in my cfoutput? > > > > Desired result: > > > > A table that builds itself dynamically so the end result will look like > this > > > > td colspan=*max(lvl)* - lvl (here it'll be 0)> 0 level header /td/tr > > td> ,/td td colspan=*max(lvl)* - lvl (here it'll be 1)> 1 level > subhead > > /td/tr > > > > etc. > > > > so far the data I need to display is 5 levels deep but that number is > > variable with new subs. > > > > TIA > > will > > ---- > > > > William H. Bowen > > Webmaster > > ALSTOM's T&D Energy Automation & Information Business > > > > "Your friendly neighborhood Webmaster" > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.esca.com/ > > > > 425.739.3629 Voice > > 425.466.7016 Cell > > 425.739.3690 FAX > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
