Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

Does anybody have a sample of creating a regular (multiframe) screen with a (pale) background behind.
What are the approaches to create these in ColdFusion ?
Thanks a lot !!!
Gary.

I am stumped and need some help. I have an application that is a plant catalog
and associated prices, which are by size. Plant information is in 1 table and
pricing is in another. Plants may have multiple prices /sizes. I want to
display a plant with it's descriptions and then ...

hey guys
I?m trying to set up an e-commerce site and I wanted this to happen:
- user enters their personal details and press's submit
- that data is automatically sent to me by email

I'm trying to create a Word document using a com object with the following
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TYPE='COM'>  I get the error message: 'An exception occurred when instantiating
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I for the first time have thought about using stored procedures.  I built some
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the mon and yearly components take like 10-20 minutes to generate with simple
queries, and tons of loops.  Would it really ...

1. ODBC connection has string format = unicode option checked in both 6.0 and
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parameter is like this CREATE PROCEDURE sp1 @e  NVARCHAR(4000) OUT ...

1. The FileExists() function is a great way to test for the existence of files
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I know this is more of an HTML or IIS thing, but I thought this was interesting
enough to ask about in this forum.  I have taken over programming of a site and
I am baffled as to the path the original developer used when inserting an image
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Could you tell me if there is a way round re-using a component without having
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when not all arguments are always defined. Using default argument values
obviously updates the fields with the default ...

I'm building a page , call it BuildForm.cfm, that constructs many of the common
form fields that I use, ie Country select fields, Date fields and so on. I'm
going to call this page from any number of other pages where I need to display
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I'm trying to convert a Perl script to cold fusion to validate purchases.
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Isn't there a function to total the values of a query column?
I have looked through the liveDocs and cannot find it. :confused;

I was wondering if anyone had ever seen this done before using ColdFusion:  I
have a scenario where I have a <SELECT> with the potential to display around
700 values.  This will be operating like your typical <SELECT> field, with no
multiple attribute.  This field will be ...

Hi All,  I can dynamically create a word document from my database, but I want
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word document that is emailed to a list of members with each attachment being
personalized. Example if I email to joe@blah ...

Right now I have an online survey in HTML format. Once the page is submitted I
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there I can verify the user?s entries and submit them into the database.
I then have a separate "administration" page where ...