Dale, I feel your pain. Flex Builder does need more intuitive and support different develop/production scenarios, especially where the developer isn't running locally or even on a local network. It can be confusing. It is assumed that you're using a dev version of CF on your dev box. (ideal scenario).
Mapped drive works great when on a LAN, but doesn't if I'm deploying to a remote server/host. In my case, I find using the "Basic" project, not CF option, is easiest for me for remote server work. On my local PC, I created a folder path C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\web-inf\flex\services-config.xml CF8 in your case Then after compiling/running locally in Flex, I FTP/RDP the /bin to the remote server. This lets me build locally and compile locally, then test on the server with live data. Not ideal, but it works. But, you do need to right-click on the project, select properties and enter the following in the complier arguments -services "C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\web-inf\flex\services-config.xml" It's a workaround that works for me. When I'm in the office, on a LAN, I map a drive, like Mike suggests. Don --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Chabot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your development server has CF installed on the C:\ drive, map that > C drive share onto your local dev box. Let's call it Z drive. Do in > your Flex settings you write Z:\ColdFusion8\ for the path. I bet you > could also use UNC paths, such as \\server\c$\ColdFusion8\. > > Enjoy, > Mike Chabot > > On Jan 1, 2008 10:39 PM, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a CF development server aleady, > > > > > > > > But what I don't understand, is when I create a new flex project is that it > > asks me for the web root and url of CF. > > > > > > > > What am I supposed to put in here, the server one I assume. It fails of > > course as the locally C:\ColdFusion8 is not available. > > > > > > > > So how do you configure a Flex project that works with a development server > > rather than a local development environment? > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Dale Fraser >
