Flash forms don't show in ColdFusion 8

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lars@work - 03 Mar 2008 21:01 GMT

I am not getting the display of <cfform format="flash" in a new installation of
ColdFusion 8 on Windows 2003 server. Is there some setting, extra software or
mime setting that has to be made to view the apparent .cfswf output?

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Ian Skinner - 03 Mar 2008 21:14 GMT

> I am not getting the display of <cfform format="flash" in a new installation of
> ColdFusion 8 on Windows 2003 server. Is there some setting, extra software or
> mime setting that has to be made to view the apparent .cfswf output?

There maybe. IIRC There are some IIS settings that can cause .cfswf
output to fail. I believe at least one cause is that IIS has been
configured to check for the existence of files before handing off the
request. This causes an issue in the default configuration because
there is no actual swf files created for the forms, they are created in
the server's memory by ColdFusion and delivered to the browser as swf
content.

I've seen workarounds posted in blogs, some Googling should turn one up.

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lars@work - 03 Mar 2008 22:15 GMT

I checked in IIS and it is not set to check that file exists for cfswf file
type. I also followed the instructions at:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=ebd0cbe3&sliceId=1

Now I get the following errors:

2 Errors found.

Error /CFIDE/scripts/cfform.swc
Unable to resolve library location.

Error /sample_flash_form.cfm:3
Unable to load runtime shared libraries.

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What should I do now?

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Ian Skinner - 04 Mar 2008 14:25 GMT

> I checked in IIS and it is not set to check that file exists for cfswf file
> type. I also followed the instructions at:
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>
> What should I do now?

Does the website have the proper mapping to the CFIDE folder? For these
type of functions to work there must be a virtual mapping setup in IIS
for the web site to the CFIDE folder of your ColdFusion installation.

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lars@work - 04 Mar 2008 15:30 GMT

Thank you Ian for your suggestion to check the CFIDE mapping. I checked and on
our 6.1 ColdFusion server, CFIDE is a virtual directory on all domains. But on
this new ColdFusion 8 installation, CFIDE was only a virtual directory for the
Default Web Site. Once I created a virtual CFIDE directory for the domain I
was testing from then the Flash Forms code worked. I wonder why the new
installation required this to be done manually.

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Ian Skinner - 04 Mar 2008 15:38 GMT

> Thank you Ian for your suggestion to check the CFIDE mapping. I checked and on
> our 6.1 ColdFusion server, CFIDE is a virtual directory on all domains. But on
> this new ColdFusion 8 installation, CFIDE was only a virtual directory for the
> Default Web Site. Once I created a virtual CFIDE directory for the domain I
> was testing from then the Flash Forms code worked. I wonder why the new
> installation required this to be done manually.

It doesn't usually have to be done manually, but it is not hard for it
to get lost, but luckily it is an easy fix.

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gauravkhanna - 25 Mar 2008 18:09 GMT

I added CFIDE virtual directory and yet the drop down boxes in the flash forms
are not uploading. I am also getting a clock that indicates a form is loading
and it continues forever.Please HELP. I am using CFMX7.

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sborg - 14 May 2008 17:10 GMT

Have you resolved this problem? I still experience the same problem in
CFMX7, even after adding the cfide virtual directory.

> I added CFIDE virtual directory and yet the drop down boxes in the flash forms
> are not uploading. I am also getting a clock that indicates a form is loading
> and it continues forever.Please HELP. I am using CFMX7.

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