Many Many MANY thanks to both Andrew and Tom for their genius. Between the two posts and an additional script to truncate the number of characters in the option it works beautifully. For anyone using Toms script in the future note that where it says #arrayLen(stObj.aOjectids)# aObjectsids is missing the "b". Other than that it worked with no modification. Thanks again to both of you. The Cfdump tip that Andrew gave, helped me find the spelling error. I'm very pleased.
Jaci -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Cornilliac Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 5:46 PM To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: node in files to populate select OK...I see the problems First, you cannot use getDescendants() in this case as it's only going to return dmNavigation objects below the objectid given as an argument. Second, "filename" is not a valid column for this method as getDescendants queries against "nested_tree_objects" in the Db and that table doesn't have a filename column. So as I said before, you're existing code is most definately throwing an exception and your just not seeing it in the output. If I was you I'd develop this feature outside of the _primaryNav template to make debugging easier. Once it's working you can drop it in place. Ok so back to the problem. Here's what you need to do: <cfscript> //get the properties of application.navid.guides oNav = createObject("component", application.types.dmNavigation.typePath); stObj = oNav.getData(application.navid.guides); </cfscript> <!--- Check the array length of stObj.aObjectids and loop over it if it's not empty aObjectids contains your PDF files that are under Guides ---> <cfif arrayLen(stObj.aObjectids)> <cfoutput> <form action="../"> <b>An Agents Guides To...</b><br> <select onchange="parseNavigation(this)"> <option>Choose a guide</option> </cfoutput> <!--- Loop over stObj.aObjectids ---> <cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(stObj.aOjectids)#" index="i"> <!--- Get the properties of the file ---> <cfset oFile = createObject("component", application.types.dmFile.typePath)> <cfset stFileProps = oFile.getData(stObj.aObjectids[i])> <cfoutput><option value="files/#stFileProps.filename#">#stFileProps.title#</option></cfout put> </cfloop> <cfoutput> </select> </form> </cfoutput> </cfif> I didn't test this but it should work. Let me know how this works for you. ~tom On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:39:11 -0500, Jaci Chesnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that its every page because I'm trying do this on the > _primaryNav.cfm > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom > Cornilliac > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:25 PM > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: node in files to populate select > > I'll take a look at your sample code in a sec but real quickly....a > lot of times when you see page content just "disappear" it means that > there's an error and Farcry has silently caught the exception. Try > adding "debug=1" to the URL of the offending page. If there is an > error you should see the exception with this. > > ~tom > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:28:34 -0500, Jaci Chesnes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have created a node in the file section of the farcry site called > guides. > > What I want is to populate a select box with all of the pdfs that are > > present in this node and when selected pop them open in a new window. > This > > is what I have and its causing the content for the entire page to > disappear > > can someone tell me what need corrected. > > > > > > > > <cfscript> > > > > // get navigation elements to root > > > > navFilter=arrayNew(1); > > > > navfilter[1]="status IN > (#listQualify(request.mode.lvalidstatus, > > "'")#)"; > > > > > > > > qguides = > > > application.factory.oTree.getdescendants(objectid=application.navid.guid > es, > > depth=1, afilter=navFilter, lColumns='filename'); > > > > </cfscript> > > > > > > > > > > > > <form action="../"> > > > > <b>An Agents Guides To...</b><br> > > > > <select onchange="parseNavigation(this)"> > > > > <option>Choose a guide</option> > > > > <cfloop query="qguides"><option > > value="files/#qguides.filename#">#qguides.lNavIDAlias #</option> > > > > <cfloop> > > > > </select> > > > > </form> > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Jaci --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia > Developers: > > http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
