Re: SequeLink driver.

2007-12-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
jeremy m wrote: First, if someone has a work-around for MX7 and 16+ character passwords for db connections, that would be best. You could try to use the Other driver and specify username and password as properties on the JDBC URL. Jochem

Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Andy Matthews wrote: I'm trying to create a PDF from a page and it's not working. The way I've read is that to do this, you simply wrap whatever content you have within cfdocument tags, with the type set to PDF. So that's what I've done, and it's not working correctly. Here's the actual

Re: Drag Image

2007-12-10 Thread Jose Diaz
How about Flex ;) Jose On Dec 10, 2007 1:55 AM, Azadi Saryev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would start by looking at jQuery (www.jquery.com) or another js library/framework that supports dragging/dropping. i personally love jQuery for its simplicity and power. ben nadel @ kinkysolutions.com

Site-wide Error Handler

2007-12-10 Thread James Smith
Is there a way to override the Site-wide Error Handler for a specific template? I ask because I need to test some code on our production server due to some third party licensing issues but my errors are of course obscured by our error handler. I don't want to turn it off globally as that would

javascript link, window.open - titlebar=no does not work.

2007-12-10 Thread ismail cassiem
Hi, Can anyone assist please. I would like to hide or not display the titlebar (resizable,minimze, close). window.open('browse2.aspx?o=xsl:value-of select=$ID /status=no,titlebar=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no') I just does not work. I would also like to set

re: Site-wide Error Handler

2007-12-10 Thread Jake Churchill
I support a site where we do this based on client IP: cfset unblockedIPs = 'xx.xx.xxx.xx,yy.yy.yyy.yy' cfif NOT ListFind(unblockedIPs, cgi.remote_addr) cferror... /cfif So, it makes sense to me that you could override the site-wide error handler in the same way by changing the if to cfif

RE: Site-wide Error Handler

2007-12-10 Thread James Smith
How could I use this to disable the Site-wide Error Handler (set in the administrator) though? -Original Message- From: Jake Churchill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2007 13:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: re: Site-wide Error Handler I support a site where we do this based on

RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Jochem... But the text doesn't display either. Nothing displays below the address information at the bottom of page 1. -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not

Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Rob Parkhill
Andy, try changing your cfdocument tag to the following: cfdoucument fontembed=no format=pdf /cfdocument I know that when I first started using cfdocument, I had to do this when using CSS on the page that was creating the PDF. Of course the resultant PDF doesn't have the same 'look', but

RE: Site-wide Error Handler

2007-12-10 Thread Jake Churchill
Using CFERROR tags inside the application.cfm file should override the sitewide error handler. So, you'd create a custom error handler and implement it for your IP only and just dump out whatever you want to see. I admit this is a bit of a hacky solution, but it's the first thing that came to

RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Thanks Rob...I'll give that a shot. As a followup question, assuming that I can't get this working with CFDocument, what are my options people? This is part of an app I'm building for a client. I promised them they could convert these proposals to PDF because I knew CF had that built in. Now it's

Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Wally Randall
How do people prevent the same user from logging into an application with the same userid from multiple machines? We have users who are sharing their IDs which is causing application failures with the concurrent sessions. ~|

Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Rob Parkhill
Andy, I guess that you could always design a high level CFR in report builder, and then pass the info that is generated for the proposals as a series of variables, but that seems messy. There is always something like ActivePDF which I was using (and still am on some sites still running 6) to

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Ryan Stille
You can go through all an applications current sessions using the SessionTracker class, but I've found this to be very slow. Instead I switched to keeping a list of logged in users in the application scope. Users get pushed into here when they login, and removed from here when they click

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
How do people prevent the same user from logging into an application with the same userid from multiple machines? We have users who are sharing their IDs which is causing application failures with the concurrent sessions. There's an undocumented function you can use to check for existing

RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
I was actually considering that. But the problem is that my CFC has code to do all of the conversion into DIVs. It just spits out a single variable for each distinct module. If it comes to that, that's what I'll do, but I'd rather avoid that if possible. It's got to have something to do with the

RE: Site-wide Error Handler

2007-12-10 Thread James Smith
I was unaware of that, just setting a couple of cferror tags worked a treat, cheers. -Original Message- From: Jake Churchill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2007 14:25 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Site-wide Error Handler Using CFERROR tags inside the application.cfm file should

CF8 Hot Fixes installed or not, that is the question!

2007-12-10 Thread Ian Skinner
On the information page in Administrator the Version is 8.0.0.176276 and I do not see any jars named either chf801 or chf802. That says to me no hot fixes installed correct? I was told they where but it looks to me like they where not. Ian

RE: CF8 Hot Fixes installed or not, that is the question!

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Watts
On the information page in Administrator the Version is 8.0.0.176276 and I do not see any jars named either chf801 or chf802. That says to me no hot fixes installed correct? I was told they where but it looks to me like they where not. Looks to me like they weren't installed,

[NEWS] Ext.CFC on Ajaxian

2007-12-10 Thread Rey Bango
Brian Love's Ext.CFC CF component is discussed on Ajaxian: http://ajaxian.com/archives/extcfc-easing-integration-with-ext-and-adobe-coldfusion Rey ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax

CFFORM, Checkbox and Binding

2007-12-10 Thread Bruce H. Sorge
I have been searching for the answer to this with no luck (or perhaps I don't know what I am looking for?). Anyway, I have a CFFORM with the Flash attribute for editing users from a cfgrid. All is working well (The grid and text data bindings anyway) except for the checkbox. Basically, if the

Re: Conceptual Search against Database(s)

2007-12-10 Thread d l
Update: -- The previous url has been replaced by a permanent one, http://web.mytata.net:8000/TextSearch/search.cfm -- More impotantly, it's now on cf8 and SPEED has improved SUBSTANTIALLY. -- The key scoring algothrithm is to calculate and assign each term a score, adding them up for each target

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Chabot
I discourage people from using the SessionTracker class to do anything other than a simple count of active sessions. Access to a specific session via the SessionTracker class updates the last access time of that session, which interfers with sessions reaching their expiration time. The method you

Re: cfajaxproxy

2007-12-10 Thread Tony Garcia
Al right, the problem I was having before was just a sandbox security issue which HostMySite fixed. So again, as Sean suggested I copied my /CFIDE/scripts folder to my web root. I uploaded some code to test the ajaxproxy tag from learncf.com (see http://tutorial13.learncf.com/) and added a

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
I discourage people from using the SessionTracker class to do anything other than a simple count of active sessions. Access to a specific session via the SessionTracker class updates the last access time of that session, which interfers with sessions reaching their expiration time. I had thought

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Ian Skinner
It ends when the timeout is reached or when the browser window is closed, depending on how you have things set up. If you clear session variables upon logout, the session is still running, but it is empty. A point of clarification, the session ONLY ends when the timeout is reached, or the CF

Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Rob Parkhill
Andy, I just opened your source of your page above and copied a portion of it into a new document and wrapped it in a cfdocument, and it generated a PDF. Granted I don't have your stylesheet to use so none of the formatting came across the same, but text and images were there. Can you include

RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Hmmm... Can you try the same test, but use an absolute path to the CSS file? I wonder if I need to do that in my CSS generation, just like with images. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF

RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
I just realized I'm asking you to debug my code. Sorry about that. Thanks for the suggestion man. I'll check that out when I get home. -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF creation in CF8

Database vs. Verity Search

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Picker
Hi, (sorry if this post appears twice, having problems with the submission page and our firewall) I’m looking for other peoples opinion on searching via a database vs. Verity searches. I’m building new search pages for our course information system, with the end result being website and

Re: Limit to single user logon with same userid

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Chabot
I was thinking of J2EE session when I wrote that, but you are correct that I should have been clearer, especially when it comes to the OnSessionEnd code. Thanks for making the clarification, because it is an important concept. I was thinking along the lines of the unique ID used to track sessions,

double-take for CF8 servers?

2007-12-10 Thread P. Merritt
My systems admin thinks we should use double-take with CF8 for disaster recovery .. have you had any experience which would suggest this is a good or bad idea? ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top

Re: double-take for CF8 servers?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Chabot
There are a bunch of vendors offering backup/recovery products like that. I have direct experience with a service called LiveVault, which I think is the same concept. I was skeptical at first, esp. when it came to backing up live SQL Server databases with it, but I put the product through a series

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread James Blaha
Hello All, Does anyone operate a CF server behind a load balancer here? If so, when a user access's a CFM template does the IP of the person come through properly as a CGI variable? We are using a Citrix NetScaler and the CGI variable that always returns for a IP is that of the load balancer.

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread James Holmes
Yes - our servers are behind a Cisco ACE and they show the correct remote address for CGI.REMOTE_ADDR and CGI.REMOTE_HOST. On Dec 11, 2007 10:07 AM, James Blaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Does anyone operate a CF server behind a load balancer here? If so, when a user access's a CFM

Re: CF8 Hot Fixes installed or not, that is the question!

2007-12-10 Thread Azadi Saryev
mine (updated to HF2) shows /C:/ColdFusion8/lib/updates/chf802.jar in the Updates Level hth --- Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and

Re: Database vs. Verity Search

2007-12-10 Thread James Holmes
Can you index the web pages with the SQL server and do the search in one place? This is possible in Oracle. On Dec 11, 2007 7:55 AM, Mark Picker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (sorry if this post appears twice, having problems with the submission page and our firewall) I'm looking for other

Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help

2007-12-10 Thread Rob Parkhill
Andy, Obviously, I don't have enough work ;) or I just like to help. So I debugged a bit for you. If I include the CSS inside the cfdocument tag, I get the colors appropriately inside the PDF, but I get 15 pages, and only the first has data, the rest is blank, however, when I leave the css

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread James Blaha
James, Did you have to do anything special to the load balancer to make it work like that? -Jim Yes - our servers are behind a Cisco ACE and they show the correct remote address for CGI.REMOTE_ADDR and CGI.REMOTE_HOST. On Dec 11, 2007 10:07 AM, James Blaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Database vs. Verity Search

2007-12-10 Thread James Wolfe
In Verity, you CAN search within the customX fields as well as all other fields (category, author, etc...). Verity is, however, mostly useless unless you are trying to find exact matches. The ranking engine in verity is the equivalent of the FindNoCase function in CF. It will return a T/F.

Re: Database vs. Verity Search

2007-12-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
Mark, Don't see this as a specific endorsement of Verity -- but I thought I should answer given I wrote the bulk of Verity plugin for FarCry framework [1]. On 11/12/2007, Mark Picker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Verity engine is a little more limited than what I originally thought, for

Re: Database vs. Verity Search

2007-12-10 Thread d l
I share your sentiment about Verity's capability though I appreciate its speed. And that's the very reason why I tried something else. The semantic search technique that I'm using now, imho, provides better search results, record rendering even with cf4.5 against a ms sql server 2000 database

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread James Holmes
I'll check with the network people - I have to check on the status of one of these ACE configs with them anyway. On Dec 11, 2007 11:52 AM, James Blaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, Did you have to do anything special to the load balancer to make it work like that? -Jim Yes - our

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread J.J. Merrick
Jim, Most load balancers will set a HTTP header called X-Forwarded-For with the actual IP. We just created a request variable and used it in our apps. Here is the code we use just in case X-Forwarded-For doesn't exist. !--- Make sure that we know the users real ip address --- cftry cfif

Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Kear
I am at the point where about half my client base is now on CF8, and i need to upgrade my development PC. I still have a significant base using CF7 though, so I need to stay in touch with that version. Are there any 'gotchas' with having CF7 and CF8 present on the same machine?I kind of had

Re: ColdFusion Server behind a Citrix NetScaler (Load Balancer) CGI Issues

2007-12-10 Thread James Holmes
I'm informed that this is the default for the Cisco ACE - the NAT automatically does the job of translating the client address through the VIP. On Dec 11, 2007 1:47 PM, James Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check with the network people - I have to check on the status of one of these ACE

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Mandel
Why not just setup 2 VMs? one with CF7 and one with CF8? You can even have them share the same codebase with shared folders. Mark On Dec 11, 2007 4:21 PM, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am at the point where about half my client base is now on CF8, and i need to upgrade my development

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Kear
This machine is pretty skimpy on the RAM. I thought 1GB would be plenty when i bought it, but i found when i had CF, SQLServer, Apache, Anti Virus, Outlook, Dreamweaver, and a couple of browsers etc all going at once it slowed down to a crawl. Will setting up VMs make that situation worse? (yes

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I have both CF7 and CF8 on the same live machine with no problems at all. I'm using IIS but I'm assuming that Apache will be the same setup. On Dec 11, 2007 12:21 AM, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am at the point where about half my client base is now on CF8, and i need to upgrade my

RE: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Russ
With 1GB of ram you can barely run windows, you really should not be running any VM's. VMs will require a lot of CPU and ram, probably at least 512MB for windows in a vm to run comfortably plus the apps that you need on it. VMs will also eat up a lot of CPU cycles if the CPU doesn't support

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Kear
Excellent news, Michael.that answers the first concern i had. How do you switch between them?I.e. how does your system determine that page a has to be processed by CF8 and page b by CF7? Cheers Mike Kear On Dec 11, 2007 4:38 PM, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Kear
Thanks Russ. The machine in questoin is my development laptop which has a max 2GB Ram, but i was persuaded when i bought it to go with 1GB. SILLY MOVE!!Because of the configuration of he chips the only way to upgrade RAM is to buy a whole 2GB in 2 chips and throw the 2x500MB chips away.

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Mandel
I also tend to run Ubuntu Server on my VMs for development, which are * considerably* lighter weight than a full blown copy of windows. (Mind you, I also run a 2.16 Cor 2 duo machine, with 2GB of ram... so...take a grain of salt) Mark On Dec 11, 2007 4:52 PM, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Sorry, I was assuming that you were doing this on a live server. My local machine here uses the internal server with CF7 on port 8500 and CF8 on port 8501. My comic machine (right next to the dev machine) has CF8 mapped into the webserver and when I need to use CF 7 I go and change the dll that's

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Chabot
I would back up or rename your CFIDE directory before any install if you are using a shared Apache Web server instead of the built-in Web server (the port 8500 one). Other than this CFIDE folder, CF8 would naturally go into its own folder when installing. The default folder name is ColdFusion8.

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Kear
Excellent Mike. So to save on RAM (since that's my major issue with this machine) i can write a little batch file in dos (remember DOS anyone?) to net stop the version i'm finished with and net start the version i want to switch to.Sounds pretty simple. that way there's only one version of

Re: Any 'gotchas' with two versions of CF on one machine?

2007-12-10 Thread James Holmes
Seriously dude, I can get 1GB of Legend lifetime warranty notebook memory for AUD $30. In fact, I'm about to do this for myself (memory is so cheap I don't know why my desktop machine doesn't have 4GB). On Dec 11, 2007 4:09 PM, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to save on RAM (since that's