I have a huge Sales Application 99.99% completed and 
after hours of attempts.  I'm stumped on the last part!  
Please send any help/advice.  Thanks.

I'm trying to extract values from a query from within a 
Custom Tag.  I can get a record count value, but not a 
needed date column/value.  Argh! Here's what I have ...

***IN THE CUSTOM TAG**********
SET THE VARIABLE FOR THE QUERY
<cfset Variables.Query = "Caller." & Attributes.Query>

THIS EXPERSSION PARSES CORRECTLY AND RETURNS THE RECORD 
COUNT OF THE QUERY THAT IS PASSED TO THE CUSTOM TAG
#Evaluate(Variables.Query & ".recordcount")#

NOW I NEED TO EVALUATE A COLUMN'S VALUE WITHIN THE QUERY 
USING DATEDIFF. I'M UNABLE TO PROCESS WITH THE 
srf_q1_date COLUMN NAME.  WHEN I HARD CODE THE DATE, 
WITH A DATE/TIME STAMP VALUE, IT WORKS.

DOESN'T WORK
<cfoutput query="#Variables.Query#">
<CFSET qdif = #datediff("q", srf_q1_date, now())#>
</cfoutput>

WORKS
<CFSET qdif = #datediff("q", "2/15/2002 12:00:00 PM", now
())#>

***********END***CUSTOM***TAG*****

****CUSTOM***TAG***REFERENCE**SYNTAX****
<cf_excel_2 Query="standard_market_ALL" 
Columns="srf_companyname|srf_approv_eng|srf_sales|srf_cou
ntry|srf_contact|srf_email|srf_projname|srf_frn_pn|srf_to
tal_qnty|srf_sell_price|srf_prob|srf_q1_qnty|srf_q2_qnty|
srf_q3_qnty|srf_q4_qnty|srf_q5_qnty|srf_q6_qnty|srf_date_
created|srf_date_approv|srfor_date_entered|srfor_date_upd
ated" HeaderTitles="COMPANY NAME|MARKET SALES 
ENG|FORECAST SALES ENG|COUNTRY|CUSTOMER CONTACT|CUSTOMER 
EMAIL|PROJECT NAME|FORECASTED PN|TOTAL UNITS|SELL 
PRICE|PROBABILTY|AMT Q1 2002|AMT Q2 2002|AMT Q3 2002|AMT 
Q4 2002|AMT Q1 2003|AMT Q2 2003|DATE SAMPLE 
REQUESTED|DATE SAMPLE APPROVED|DATE WIN FORECASTED|DATE 
FORECAST UPDATED" FileName="Steve.xls" 
AlternateRowColor="silver" Title="Company Forecast Wins 
by Company" NoDataMessage="There was no data returned." 
Border="yes">
****CUSTOM***TAG***REFERENCE******

THANKS
D-


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