It was something completely obvious. And Peter was very close. It wasn't the cfcomponent tag that was the problem but the first function in it. This function had a '#'s around the function name making it appear as a variable.
Thanks all, Magnus On Aug 29, 10:06 am, "Peter J. Farrell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you doing something like this: > > <cfobject > component = "admin.progex.manageSeries" > name = "#variables.someName#"> > > I don't think you can use variable in name -- or least the exception you > are getting is saying that. > > Also, maybe share your CFC? You could have a syntax error in that as > well that is causing this problem and the line number is being misreported. > > .pjf > > Magnus said the following on 08/28/2009 11:21 PM: > > > I must be missing something obvious. I am getting this error when > > trying to instantiate a CFC. > > > Type Application > > Detail Invalid Expression: The NAME attribute must contain a constant > > value > > Tag Context CFOBJECT (C:/openbd/webapps/openbd/dspSeriesDetail.cfm, > > Line=17, Column=27) > > Source > > > 14: ---> > > 15: <cfobject > > 16: component = "admin.progex.manageSeries" > > 17: name = "SeriesFunctions"> > > 18: > > > ^ Snippet from underlying CFML source > > > I was getting the same error when trying to use CFINVOKE. And the same > > error mesage came up running under Railo. As far as I can tell the > > syntax is the same as other places I have used CFCs and matches the > > docs. > > > Thanks. > > Magnus > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
