If you where installing a brand new ColdFusion application 8.0.1 server
on a recently acquired Solaris 5.10 64bit Unix box would you choose to
install ColdFusion as 64bit or 32bit?
Is there any downsides to going 64bit? Any considerations that somebody
who has never *ever* installed
Damayanti Gupta wrote:
aList = ArrayToList(anArray);
aList = ArrayToLIst(anArray,'|'); \*or whatever delimiter you care to use*\
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Earl, George wrote:
Is there a fundamental problem with having two or more scheduled tasks
start at the same time? Does this confuse CF?
Not a fundamental problem, but a scheduled task is nothing more then an
automatic HTTP request to an URL resource no different then if a bunch
of humans did
Andrew Clarke wrote:
Are there any actual security advantages to doing this? I'm not sure if they
are just following general best practices that aren't applicable in this
instance or if they know something about ColdFusion security that I don't
know.
It is not an unheard of idea in
Scott Stewart wrote:
Hey all,
Is there a way to detect the use of the browser back button?
I have an issue where I need to prevent a process from running if the
browser back button is used..
thanks in advance
sas
No, not really.
You can structure your application to work correctly
Andy Matthews wrote:
That doesn't make any sense Barney.
If you have page A that collects data from an user which then calls page
B which process the data which then uses cflocation... to page C for
the display of the results. If the user presses the back button they
are sent back to page A
Scott Stewart wrote:
My question is: How much is too much and will having this many session
vars affect performance.
It is more if the amount of data in the variables then the number of
variables. One session variable containing a 5k structure will have
more of a performance impact the
John M Bliss wrote:
[whew] :-)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that's new CF8 syntax.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's because you need both to be inside pound
How would some of you take this text file and parse it into a structure?
I would like to take this text:
options (direct=true, errors=99)
load data
into table raw_i
append
(record_id position(1:1) CHAR,
process_mt position(2:3) CHAR,
process_yr position(4:5) CHAR,
batch_no
Here is a new one for me.
I'm in the middle of creating a simple tool that is going to take a
data file and display a grid of the data for users to review. So I have
a basic form for the user to select a local data file they would like to
review. What occurred to me is I have no need to
Rob Parkhill wrote:
But I thought that in the upload process the CF Server made a temp copy of
the file. Can you use that to read the data from?
That is an interesting thought, I believe it is the web server that
creates the temp file, but maybe I can just go to that source... hmmm.
Off to
patrick buch wrote:
cfdirectory directory=//12.3.123.123/c_drive/ name=dirQuery
action=LIST
Any suggestions?
The user that ColdFusion runs under must have domain permissions to read
from the remote system over the network. The default windows user
localsystem' that the ColdFusion
Rob Parkhill wrote:
Okay,
I have a Canon printer/fax on the network, that we use. It has a static
IP, etc. Is there a way to send the required information here? I don't
really want to use the server to send faxes through the modem. Maybe I will
have to talk to Canon and see if they have
Chad Gray wrote:
Where do I put the file and how to I format the path?
There is a little understood weirdness to the MX generation of
ColdFusion. It has two web roots in which it will look for CFM files.
The first is the web root defined in the web server, IIS in your case.
The second is
Aaron Rouse wrote:
My only complaint is the need to run Enterprise for Oracle support out of the
box
Then your complaint is probably with Oracle. It is my, possible very
wrong, understanding that a big factor in the price difference between
Standard and Enterprise is the license fee for
Che Vilnonis wrote:
Are there any repurcussions for deleting class files that I should be aware
of?
Time, which could be significant depending on your application but for
most cases would not be.
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Quick question that I just can not think of the right terms to find in
Google.
There is a syntax short cut in JavaScript if you are assigning several
properties to the same object. What is it?
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Adrian Lynch wrote:
Or do you mean with?
with someObject {
var1 = not;
var2 = sure;
var3 = about;
var4 = this;
var5 = syntax;
var6 = or;
var7 = whether;
var8 = it's a JavaScript;
var9 = thing or not;
}
alert(someObject.var1);
I am attempting to use the new CF8 version of the Grid an GridColumn
tags for the first time. I have not made use of these tags since 4.5.
I have very specific usage in mind, but I am not quickly figuring out
how to archive my goal from the documentation. I'm hoping a couple of
you all could
I have a multi-level report that I am having trouble building a proper
record set for given the structure of the data I have to work with. I'm
hoping the illustrious minds on this list can help me see the light.
Here is the desired output. Each year should always list all counties.
YEAR 1
Jason Fisher wrote:
I think you can just leave year and county tables 'unlinked' and still OUTER
JOIN to your raw_pur table by both year and county_cd. Dunno, but it's worth
a try:
This was the right idea. Thanks to Brad providing me the proper term,
'Cartesian,' for what I was trying
Jason Fisher wrote:
Very cool to have CROSS JOIN explicitly state your intention there.
Normally, of course, you want to avoid CROSS JOIN like the plague, since the
RDBMS has to full index both tables and cross reference every possible
combination, but in your specific case, the
cfdiv
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_d-e_04.html
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How to select all records from the left table and all the records on the
right that match certain criteria.
This does not work because the where clause filters out all the 'NULLS'
from the records in the a table that do not have a matching record in
the b tables.
SELECT
a.field,
Jason Fisher wrote:
Give this a try. It will still honor the LEFT OUTER JOIN while using both of
your tests to select 'b' records.
Thank you, that worked perfectly.
Ian
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This may not be worth the effort, but before I give up I wanted to throw
it out to this illustrious group.
I have a long but a usually narrow 58 row table. When this is printed
it would span vertiaclly across two pages.
But it is normally narrow enough that the two haves could easily fit
Well, a structure is probably easiest.
pKey: #key#, Value: #form[key]#/p
cfset myStruct[key] = form[key]
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Scott Stewart wrote:
i have a table with a field (study_category.category_date) that is a
comma delimited list (2004,2005,2006,2007) stored as a NVARCHAR
I need to see if a passed value is in the list:
WHERE (#arguments.cat_date# in (study_category.category_date))
arguments.cat_date is a
The client's exact words were: I want visitors to fill out a form and
submit it and get approved for a line of credit they can use to pay for
services on my site.
The first way I read that line, is this is a company that already deals
with credit lines. If so, my first question would be How
Adrian Lynch wrote:
Got the code that does the rewriting of the attributes?
When writing structures, myStruct.someKey will result in SOMEKEY when you
view it. The way around it is to do myStruct[someKey].
And if you are using the CF XML functions, a quick survey showed that
many have a
Rick Faircloth wrote:
Now I know. The cfreturn variable has to match the query name.
Well, no. It has to match what you want to return. Sure there are lots
of examples where the return does not match the query name because the
query is not what is necessarily returned. But if your function
Laura Norris wrote:
we are running CF 7 on Windows 2003 Server.
does that make any difference?
Just that the services name will be Macromedia ColdFusion 7 AS
#instanceName#, instead of Adobe.
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Any help would be appreciated.
You didn't say if you are doing this on Unix or Windows? And what version of
ColdFusion is always helpful.
My main experience is windows based.
The only difference with multi-home is that you have multiple Services, each
service can have it's own login user.
cfhttp would be the closest to in cfinclude... concept. This
would return the .aspx page as it was rendered by the ASP application
server. You would then need to process the cfhttp.filecontent variable
to marry it with your look and feel.
Phillip M. Vector wrote:
Peter Boughton wrote:
1) Scope the variable, e.g. using #Variables.Question# instead of just
#Question#
Did you do this one Phillip.
I'm late to this discussion so I don't really know what your issue is.
But you have some pretty ambiguous code here.
div
Phillip M. Vector wrote:
Ian Skinner wrote:
div class=FAQQuestion
#Question#
/div
Is ColdFusion seeing that as 'variables.question' or
'variables.FAQ.question' you have both on this block of code. And it may
not be picking the one you want to output. If so then be specific
I have in my DB under the field of answer...
We have currently #users.recordcount# players signed up with this site
that your event would reach. While it may not be many in the pure view,
if 7 come to your convention, that would pay for our services (Figuring
the room costs a total of $200 and
Ian Skinner wrote:
cfoutput query=FAQ
div class=FAQAnswer
#Evaluate(DE(FAQ.Answer))#
/div
/cfoutput
O.K. I have never really done anything with this recursive rendering
of ColdFusion variables inside of ColdFusion variables before. But this
is kind of cool
What would I be looking at to run a Perl script at
d:/path/to/my/perl/loader.pl %year% with a cfexecute... tag?
I've tried to do it directly:
cfexecute name=d:\path\to\my\perl\loader.pl arguments=#year#
variable=goodbar errorvariable=foobar/
I've tried to do it through cmd.exe:
cfexecute
yea in win32 you'd want to
cfexecute name=c:\program files\perlinstalledwhereever\perl.exe
arguments=d:\path\to\my\perl\loader.pl #year# variable=goodbar
errorvariable=foobar/
Ok...I gave this one a try too and the same results.
cfexecute
name=e:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
The annoying part of this is that I am NOT getting any results OR errors, just
nothing.
Is there a concept like Start In or Working Directory when running script
with cfexectue...?
The only idea I can come up with is that the Perl script is failing because it
can not find associated files
Try running it at the command prompt or as a bat file and see what happens.
I would get it to work there first and then try it with CFexecute.
~G~
Both of these already work. I can easily run the line from the command line,
and there is an bat file that works fine when used in the Windows
so it runs fine if you do
e:\perl\bin\perl.exe d:\intranet_apps\pesticide_use_report\loader\loader.pl
2008
from a command prompt?
I don't know... I have never tried that form. From the command line, I would
just use the d:\\intranet_apps|pesticide_use_report\loader\loader.pl 2008. And
this
Yeah I see now... I wasn't paying enough attention. Sorry
I would try this. It has worked for me in the past... when I needed to pass
custom vars to an executable I would write the bat file on the fly, save it
and then run the bat file with CFexecute.
HTH
G
Thanks, it looks like this idea will
But I am still getting no results from the cfexecute... tag. The PERL
script generates a ton of output. When I first ran my prototype bat file,
it generated output. But I am getting none of this output out of the
cfexectue... call?
I donno if I can help with that. I haven't used cfexectue in a
Rick Faircloth wrote:
I think I may have been blacklisted...
Rick
This would be encouraging... I changed my e-mail service about an hour
ago and have only gotten 1/2 dozen messages since. I was beginning to
think this service is even worse then my last, which I know was
rejecting at least
Cutter (CFRelated) wrote:
Plus, you had better know the code of each site really well. One inline
style declaration for a color and BOOM, big CF error where none should
ever show.
ONLY if one goes back and wraps the HTML code in cfoutput... blocks!
Otherwise normal html, color declarations
Unfortunately I have to maintain a couple of archaic ColdFusion 4.5
servers for the next couple of years. Luckily all our new development
is going on bright and shiny new ColdFusion 8 Enterprise servers. But
it will be quite some time before many older programs are migrated.
That being said.
It sounds like you are going to need to look at your join syntax.
Since you are join your users to courses you are going to get 9 records
for that one user. Then when you sum those up you are going to get nine!.
But I am unclear on what to do about it. One would need to know a lot
more your
Rick wrote:
Now I want to query that session results much the
same way as you would do a query of Query.
Then why not use the query of query? Having the result set in a session
variable does not matter. The query of a query needs a variable with a
result set in it. Provide it the session
You can not do this with basic HTTP/HTML/AJAX level technology. There
is no connection between the server and any client that recently
connected to receive content. The closest you can get with these
technologies is to regularly pull updated data from the client. I.E.
Set a function on the
I don't know if this is easier or not... but it is what I've done when
worried about 'brown' data.
When a user views a data set for editing, keep of a copy of the data as
they received it, probably in a session variable. Then when they submit
changes to this data, compare the 'original state'
BJ McShane wrote:
My guestion is am I doing something wrong or is there a trick to force it to
behave one way for one program and another way for another program. I like
the cfdocument tag but it seems like it still has a lot of problems. I guess
I'm going to break the printable button
We tried to install ColdFusion 8.01 in 64 bit mode on a new Solaris Unix
server yesterday and it did not complete.
The installation seems to have ran without any noticeable problems, but
the cfmx-connectors.sh does not seem to run properly.
We are attempting to install ColdFusion in a
Shannon Peevey wrote:
Is coldfusion firing up? Or, is it failing when you try to start the
server?
We haven't got that far, I don't think. We can start the JRun server,
but then get errors when we attempt to run the cfmx-connectors.sh shell
script. But I have never done this type of
Ryan Stille wrote:
Check the paths in the connector script and make sure they are correct.
This is often an issue on Linux, and it could be the same on Solaris.
This may be helpful:
http://www.stillnetstudios.com/2007/04/05/problems-installing-the-coldfusion-connector-on-linuxapache/
Robert Harrison wrote:
Question is, if I invoke this program from a CFPage to start the process,
will the process continue when the user exists the page? (i.e., continue to
run in the background).
Does this concept, loop and process a bit each minute until done, sound like
a reasonable
Rusty Owens wrote:
Did you ever get a response? I am trying to do the same thing as well.
I've done it once
When I did it long ago, buried deep in the Pay Pal documentation behind
the ASP* and PHP examples was one ColdFusion one.
The basic concept is fairly simple. You make a request of
Jarlath Eoin Gallagher wrote:
Just place a br/ after the variable and it will render onto a new line
OR #chr(13)##chr(10)#
Depending on if your sending HTML or TEXT formated email.
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Richard White wrote:
... found that at present coldfusion query of queries just isnt built as a
database engine
And probably never will be. That is what ColdFusion engineers told a
group of us at a pre-Max conference a couple of years ago. ColdFusion
is *NOT* a database engine and is not
Jochem van Dieten wrote:
(Just imagine what would happen if that user
enters his password incorrectly 3 times and is locked out.)
Or leaves the company and the user account is deactivated.
Or changes their password after three months as often is network policy.
I've seen it all.
Do as Jochem
Dave Watts wrote:
I don't think this is correct. If you explicitly pass NULL, that's what
you're going to get regardless of any default value for the column.
I concur with Dave, not hard to do. You would have to have you SQL
dynamically not try and set the given field for the default to take
Tim Stutzman wrote:
Hi,
The SQL Server has all the fields I need but one field that is in the DB2
database. I need to join between the two databases, but I have never wrote a
query that uses two different data sources.
You can not connect to to different data sources in a single query.
David Moore, Jr. wrote:
What is the [] for. How would they be used.
That is called 'Array Notation'. All ColdFusion variables are now
structures AKA 'Associative Array' or 'Hash' or many other names. But
it means that you can dynamically reference the elements of complex
variables by using
Gerald Guido wrote:
cfset MyServiceObj = evaluate(Application.#arguments.MyTable#Service)/
cfset mystring = MyServiceObj.save#arguments.MyTable#(myBeanObj) /
cfreturn evaluate(mystring) /
Many TIA
Well I think the first line could be...
cfset MyServiceObe = Application[arguments.MyTable
Adrian Lynch wrote:
A little correction:
cfoutput#variables[x]#/cfoutput
should be:
cfoutput#variables[x]#/cfoutput
Adrian
OR
cfset x = x
cfoutput#variable[x]#/cfoutput
:)
But yea, what does that really gain for you.
erik tom wrote:
On this page I only want to the root menu. After i click on the link it
should take me to the child menu where i CAN CLICK ON THE iTEM AND IT SHOULD
TAKE ME TO THE NEXT MENU. aND SO ON AND SO FORTH
Then don't loop over all the children and output them. Just output a
single
Wally Randall wrote:
Why does this fail inside a cfoutput loop over a query:
application. is an illegal variable name. To do this type of thing
you need to use array notation.
cfset application[appconfig.code_name] = appconfig.code_value
Casey Dougall wrote:
cfloop index=ColumnName list=#appconfig.ColumnList#
cfset APPLICATION.appconfig.#ColumnName# = appconfig[#ColumnName#]
/cfloop
Or the same thing with a few less pound signs and quotes.
cfset Application['appconfig'][ColumnName] = appconfig[ColunName]
Or to completely
Rick Root wrote:
Anyone got any ideas on this?
I read a review of Chrome a couple of days ago that discussed a general
'Flash' problem with current browsers. The reviewer discussed how
greedy Flash player could get with client resources, particularly CPU.
David Moore wrote:
How would I go about creating a dynamic file on the fly from a CF Query
Exactly like you would create dynamic HTML. ColdFusion does not care
what text it creates and will do what ever you direct it to. You can do
it all manually or use the built in XML functionality.
s. isaac dealey wrote:
I believe according to the standard, XML isn't allowed to have any white
space before the doctype. This is the first I'd heard of a browser
refusing to render it though.
Actually IIRC, the XML standard does not care about white space, nothing
else is allowed before the
Rick Faircloth wrote:
Is there a way to make the start of one thread
conditional upon the ending of a previous thread?
It should be possible using the thread.status feature. You would create
a thread then watch the status until it reports completed then start
the next thread.
Don't have a
Rick Faircloth wrote:
Is there a way to break out of the cfscript block once
the status of the first thread, 2_hmls_offices, is Completed and go
on to process regular CFML code?
There is nothing special about the cfscript.../cfscript code. This
is not a requirment of threads or anything,
Have you confirmed that the e-mail contains a proper e-mail address in
the TO property? That is what I see in the error message.
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Is there a way to stop this code from producing an unnecessary XML
declaration. When I run the following code it produces an XML
declaration after the body tag.
body
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Is there someway to control this, or do I just need to do some string parsing
after the
Ian Skinner wrote:
Is there a way to stop this code from producing an unnecessary XML
declaration.
Why yes, yes there is a way to stop this. Add the following line to
your XSLT code Ian.
xsl:output method=html encoding=utf-8
Rick Faircloth wrote:
I see your point.
How do the multiple file uploaders in javascript or flash
get around this problem?
I've never seen javascript that could do this, once a bug in I.E. that
allowed to was closed.
I did once read about an ActiveX that purported to allow this when used
Dan Vega wrote:
I would be interested in your use case for this. As everyone has already
pointed out this is a huge security risk but even from a user standpoint it
doesn't make sense to me why you would want to do this?
I've run into this request when working with corporate web
applications.
Rick Faircloth wrote:
(If I understand it all with only a cursory review.)
Just reading your posted description, this is a way to just create
multiple file upload controls. JavaScript can easily do this, I am
unclear on what the benefit of making them all separate forms in iframes
is, but
Well the way I read it, but I have not looked at the site. Is that this
tool creates multiple file controls, then a user has to populate them
with files, then the button submits them all.
But I got to admit all that iframe and separate form stuff is an awful
lot of work to do this rather
There are javascript solutions for this, so why can't CF have one
that doesn't pose a security risk, if the javascript solutions don't?
Rick
It should be pointed out that CF is not involved in this limitation at all. If
you want to make a case for change it would need to be made with the
Ian Skinner wrote:
But I got to admit all that iframe and separate form stuff is an awful
lot of work to do this rather simple functionality.
I just read through the post for that multiple file loader JavaScript.
The problem he is trying to get around using multiple forms is size
limits
Rick Faircloth wrote:
This issues just sounds like it could be addressed
by placing limitations on what type of files are acceptable
in the upload. Such as with cffile... I don't really know.
But the point is that cffile... would happily accept anything right
now. ColdFusion does not care
Jochem van Dieten wrote:
Ian Skinner wrote:
E:\JRun4\servers\general\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\cfusion\tmpCache\CFFileServlet\_cfreport\
What does this folder do and what would these virtX
files be.
Temporary files that are used by cfreport. It should
Jochem van Dieten wrote:
Temporary files that are used by cfreport. It should be safe to delete
them after cfreport has finished running.
Jochem
I have already spent an hour this morning to delete all the
virt{uniqueIdentifier} file out of this ...\CFFileServlet\_cfreport\ folder
Wow, It
What are the IIS Virtual Directories set up for websites using ColdFusion?
I know there should be one for CFIDE, but isn't there a second one as well?
TIA
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Jessica Kennedy wrote:
I need to write a .csv file with all data encased in quotation marks, the
problem is that cffile output uses double quotes to define the data to input.
How can I get around this?? Geez, i know it's got to be something easy...
Yup, use single quotes.
I'm uninstalling CF8 to do a clean re-install and it seems to be frozen
near the end of the 'Folders' section.
What type of pain am I in for if I abort the uninstaller at this point?
Windows 2003 server FYI
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http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19187
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E:\JRun4\servers\general\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\cfusion\tmpCache\CFFileServlet\_cfreport\
What does this folder do and what would these virtX
files be. There are so many on our server that I can not delete with
the recycle bin.
I as because this was a server that was
David Moore, Jr. wrote:
Not trying to pick a fight, becuase I am sure you have forgotten more code
than I will ever know (seriously) and I am probably just being lazy
(seriously), but is cfqueryparam something a lot of programmers really use?
I have never seen cfqueryparam used on any tags
I will just post a link to what I submitted to the CF-OT forum. But,
this is an important issue to us and I wanted to make sure as wide an
audience sees it as permissible. Looking at the CF-OT forum, it seems
to be a sparsely used list and I do not know how well attend it is.
I've poised
Eric Roberts wrote:
I bet if you give adobe a call they could tell you ;-)
Eric
If you manage to call the write people. I believe we all have heard
many stories about the confusion concerning ColdFusion from front-line
Adobe support staff.
I would give one of these guys that call and
Claude Schneegans wrote:
so why not use a table ?
Or at least a table of lists.
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Tom Chiverton wrote:
On Thursday 07 Aug 2008, Ian Skinner wrote:
into the ColdFusion administrator and replaced the
HTML file path '/rootDir/subDir/subDir/htdocs/errors/404error.htm' with
the corresponding CFML path
'/rootDir/subDir/subDir/htdocs/errors/404error.cfm' it stop working
Adam Churvis wrote:
Missing Template Handler is missing...
Doesn't that just have a sort of Zen ring to it?
Respectfully,
Adam Phillip Churvis
President
Productivity Enhancement
Zen or not, it is also very frustrating that it does not work.
To be clear and up front, I am talking about
Dawson, Michael wrote:
Are you certain that CF can see that .cfm file? Can you actually
execute it? Do you have the correct CF mapping that allows it to
resolve?
mike
Yes I believe that CF can see the file, I can directly browse to it and
it works that way.
Ok so what is wrong with using expandPath() in a 4.5 ColdFusion template
that is used as the Missing Template handler?
That is the source of my problem. When the 404error.cfm file is called
directly in a browser the expandPath() function works properly and
resolves the absolute path I need to
Jim Davis wrote:
I honestly can't remember or find if the missing template handler was
restricted by the same rules... but I have a vague recollection that it was.
Jim Davis
Nope all the other CFML works just fine in the Missing Template
Handler. I was concerned about the same thing and had
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