The salesforce.cfc is fairly easy to use, so if you can, use it. If you cannot, then look at the source code of your web to lead form. There are hidden fields that you also need to pass the params for to SFDC.
Sent from my iPhone. Don't be a hater. On Jun 28, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Shawn Contreras <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am currently using ColdFusion MX v7.0 (I know it is dated but actually is > working well for my purposes and is pretty stable). I am a "newbie" so > please be patient, if I ask obvious questions or request simple > clarification. I have gone through the Salesforce.com Web-To-Lead feature > they offer and for HTML <form> it works without flaw. However, I need to use > <CFFORM> because I not only need to send the form data to Salesforce.com but > also to another .cfm page that uses <CFINSERT> into our own database. Upon > "submit", I pass the data from the <CFFORM> to a page called insert.cfm. > After all my reading, I believe I should use the <CFHTTP> tag and then of > course the <CFHTTPPARAM> tag. So my first question, am I correct that this > is how I should pass the <CFFORM> data to Salesforce.com? If so, this is > what I have done but the data is not getting into Salesforce.com. It is > however getting into my database. It is a long form so I'll just show the > obvious: > > <!--- Begin Insert Section ---> > <html> > <head> > > <!--- Begin Variables to be posted to Salesforce.com at this URL ---> > <cfhttp > url="https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8"; > method="post" resolveurl="Yes"> > <cfhttpparam type="FORMFIELD" name="FirstName" value="#form.FirstName#"> > <cfhttpparam type="URL" value="cfhttp" name="Test1"> > </cfhttp> > <input type=hidden name="oid" value="00D500000007A2e"> > <!--- End Variables to be posted to Salesforce.com at this URL ---> > > <CFINSERT DATASOURCE="MyDatabase" TABLENAME="Subscribers"> > <!--- End Insert Section ---> > <!--- Send the message to yourself, when the user posts it on your site. ---> > <CFMAIL to="[email protected]" from="#form.Email#" Subject="New User > Requests Information from My Company, Inc.!" type="html"> > <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> New User > Requests Information from My Company, Inc.!<br> > <br> > <strong>#form.CompanyName#</strong><br> > #form.FirstName# #form.LastName# - #form.Title# <br> > #form.Address#<br> > #form.City#, #form.StateProv# #form.StateProv2# #form.Zip#<br> > #form.Country# <br> > #form.Phone# <br> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am not getting any errors but the > data is not getting into Salesforce.com either. Salesforce.com generated : > url="https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8"; > as well as the: > <input type=hidden name="oid" value="00D500000007A2e"> > > Thank you in advance. > > Sifu > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
