I agree that this is an architecture issue and there is not a quick fix for what you are asking. It seems that what you want to do is to pass maps back and forth. If you do this you lose compile time checking, but you can do simple commands like myMap.getKeys() or myMap.getValues() and that would return a list of what is in the object. I don't know CF so I have no idea if CF has maps... Would assume it does.
But, I'm going to be at the next AFFUG meeting and in our app we do somewhat similar things. We don't know what data each customer needs to capture, but our app needs to process their specific forms. We have no idea what data or rules are on the forms, but we must display them, edit check them based on rules, and process them through a lock process. Some of our customers have 1000's of customer specific fields. If you come to the meeting I'll be happy to talk to you about how we handle this. It is pretty cool, if I do say so myself. This company hired me and 2 other guys to lead a rewrite of the old system that was much like you described... Every customer basically ending up with custom code which means we have an app per customer. We were challenged with the same thing you are where we want a single app to handle all customers. So if you want to talk, I'd be glad to discuss how we did it before the meeting, on breaks, and for a short time after. And, advice/suggestions are free! Just look me up at the next meeting. My name is Dale Bronk. By the way, we don't use maps, I was just throwing that out as a suggestion. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] One-on-one Flex 3.5a and ColdFusion9 help... On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Laurence MacNeill <[email protected]> wrote: > (Oh, I've also posted this on Adobe Forums and FlexCoders > Yahoo group... So please don't tell me to ask there. It's already > been done, with no good responses (yet)... <GRIN>) Frankly, and I hope you take this in the best possible way, this sounds like a software architecture and requirements analysis problem more than a syntax problem someone can just "answer". Good luck, though. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
