Hi Steve and Ryan
Still no difference.
Steve, I've inserted the diagnostic code as the top, but CF isn't even
getting that far. It's still stopping at the tag call i.e. :
"
<cf_selectoffices SelectedOfficeID="#attributes.SelectedOfficeID#" Debug="true">
"
The word "attributes" makes no difference.
> Andrew
>
> Firstly, you dont need <CFOUTPUT> around queries. CFQUERY processes all
> outputs within the CFQUERY block anyway.
>
> Put this in your customTag at the top of the file
>
> <cfif isDefined("Attributes.Debug")>
> <cfdump var="#Attributes#"><cfabort>
> </cfif>
>
>
> then pass your values into your custom tag like this
>
> <cf_selectoffices SelectedOfficeID="#SelectedOfficeID#" Debug="true">
>
> what this will do is dump the attributes and their values to the screen
>
> My guess is that the "SelectedOfficeID" value being passed in is making the
> query error
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
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> Dickinson
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> Subject: [cfaussie] custom tag weirdness
>
>
> My first tag is not going according to plan.
>
> I'm attempting to reuse this code :
>
> <cfoutput>
> <cfquery name="getOfficeLocs" datasource="mydata">
> SELECT YOfficeID AS SelectedOfficeID, OfficeName
> FROM YesOffices
> WHERE Active = 1
> ORDER BY OfficeName
> </cfquery>
> <cfquery name="getSelectedOffice" datasource="mydata">
> SELECT YOfficeID AS SelectedOfficeID, OfficeName
> FROM YesOffices
> WHERE Active = 1
> and Yofficeid=#SelectedOfficeID#
> </cfquery>
> </cfoutput>
>
> ... which sets up for a dropdown menu.
>
> I've saved this code as SelectOffices.cfm, and called it as
> <cf_selectoffices> - this is as
> the CFMX reference manual suggests.
>
> The problem seems to be the parameter. When I modify the call to
> <cf_selectoffices SelectedOfficeID="#SelectedOfficeID#">
> it falls over, pointing to an error on this line
> "and Yofficeid=#SelectedOfficeID#"
>
> So I went back to the book and followed the starter example, wihch simply
> creates a file called date.cfm containing today's date, then calls <cf_date>
> from a
> different program. This works. However, when I try to pass a parameter,
> any parameter, using any of the methods in the book, it doesn't work (i.e
> throws an error).
>
> What am I missing here ?
>
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