Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another CFMAIL Problem

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:02:50 -0800

Thanks, Shawn, but I'm hoping there's a simpler way, such as some parm I can set, or that my code intending to prevent caching is inadequate...

-----Original Message-----
From: shawn gorrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 7, 2008 3:55 PM
To: discussion@acfug.org
Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another CFMAIL Problem

You could always check for existence of the file and create a unique filename if it already exists.

From: Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: discussion@acfug.org
Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 3:48:58 PM
Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Another CFMAIL Problem

The web page I'm having a problem with builds a PDF document and attaches that to an e-mail. The problem is that the user can do this for successive job numbers one after the other (it's a site for court reporters to report back to the company that sent them on a job). I have been naming the PDF with the reporter's initials (e.g. PHT.pdf if I were one of them), and the bug is that frequently the PDF for the previous job gets attached instead of the PDF just built.

One solution I thought of is simply to use the job number as the name of the PDF. This would guarantee that each next one built is different. But then it occurred to me that if the user reports a job, then realizes he made a mistake, corrects it, and sends the report again for the same job, there's a danger that the earlier mistaken version would get sent instead.

Here is the CFMAIL tag (names changed to protect the guilty):

<cfmail from="#sendfrom#" to="#sendto#"
  subject="Job #Session.sJobNo# has been reported by #Session.UserName#"
  server="abc.def.net" username="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" password="blahblah"
  mimeattach="c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/Reporters/#Session.UserName#.PDF">
  Report completed: See Attached Job Sheet     
</cfmail>

The code which buildt the PDF attached by the code just above attempts to ensure that the PDF for the job just reported gets overwritten, and doesn't get cached, but evidently does not succeed:

<html>
<head>
<title>Post-Job Reporting</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<cfoutput><META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="#GetHTTPTimeString(NOW())#"/></cfoutput>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"/>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="cache-control" VALUE="no-cache, no-store,must-revalidate"/>
<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF=""/>
</head>
<body>
<cfset filename = UCase(Session.UserName) & ".PDF">
<cfdocument format="PDF" filename="#filename#" overwrite="yes">
<TABLE border="1" width="100%" style="border-style:groove; font-size:14pt;">
  <TR><TD>
  <table width="100%">
  <cfoutput>
  <tr>
      <td valign="middle" align="left">

etc., etc.,...

Any ideas as to what might be wrong?

- Peyton


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