Hi all, I've built a dynamic charting application using CF 4.52 and Popchart (trial version) and am in the process of converting over to CFMX and cfchart, which is proving to be a breeze.
All except for one thing. Popchart has a feature whereby you can specify to save the generated image to a location of your choice. I'd been using this feature to allow users to generate charts, then save them (jpg only) to their personal folder on the server for use in creating customized reports with ActiveEdit (WYSIWYG editor), later to be converted to pdf using htmldoc for publishing. I'd like to do the same with cfchart and have set the tag to cache to disk. Basically I want to perform a cffile move action to place a copy of the image into the user's directory. The only problem I have is extracting the actual filename generated by cfchart. Anyone got any ideas? My first thought is to run some directory and fileexists checks before and after the chart generation to try and determine which file to transfer, however this may pose problems with concurrency (cflock could maybe solve this). The whole process must take place out of sight from the user. Basically the user generates flash charts onscreen and then if they wish to use the chart for a report, they click a button or link below the chart, which generates the chart as a jpg and saves it to the users' directory automatically. Ideally I'd like to be able to extract the filename directly from cfchart tag but it doesn't appear to be available. TIA, Dave ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.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
