Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

Hi all  We have got cfldap working ok with Active Directory and can search on
any single value field. However, we are having problems searching / filtering
on multivalue fields such as dn and manager.  The sample  We want to find all
the people with a specific manager eg rsmith.  ...

Why does the url:
http://192.168.1.100/digital%20swordsmen/prod/day.cfm?monthOR=January?yearOR=200
5 not work with the query  <cfquery datasource='news_reviews' name='qnews'>
    select distinct monthOR from news_reviews     where yearOR = '#url.yearOR#'

Does anyone know if it is possible to display an excel file in a *.cfm page?  I
have looked into CFMODULE, but it doesn't seem like it is what I am looking
for.  Maybe I am looking at it wrong....  Basically, I have an Excel Workbook
that has about 6 worksheets in it.  Is there ...

Hi guys,  I need to create a test app, exactly the same as the Certified CF
developer test or apps for MS MSCA tests. I need to put on the page ?Remaining
Time? element. The ?Remaining Time? must start on 2:00 (two hours) and go
down(eg. 1:35). The time must update every minute ...

Hi, I have a most mysterious bug in my cfsearch code. I have used cfindex to
populate a collection from a database query (~50k records). It mostly works
absolutely fine. For example if I search for  'kayak' it brings back records
containing 'kayak', 'kayaking', 'Kayak','Kayaking' ...

hello,  I have a question for all.  Here is  my coding   In my search page, I
put  <FORM ACTION='GuestSimpleSearchActionPage.cfm' method='post'> .......  
<dd><b>State/Prov: <select name='State' ></B> <OPTION VALUE='*'>Choose One /
All</OPTION>  <OPTION ...

Hey again. I was wonder how does cfexecute work? I wanted for users  to be able
to run some of my homemade programs but i cannot get them to launch from the
site. I used this code:  <cfexecute name='D:/Ftp/digital
swordsmen/downloads/cannable.exe'>Run</cfexecute>  and got  Error ...

After some testing I have determined that the scopes that cfparam checks
for the existance of a variable are as follows:
1. variables
2. url

I'm not sure if this is possible...but I need to know.  I'm using a query in
MySQL to creates a text file on the DB server...using this code: <cfquery
name='rsDataResult' datasource='#Session.DBsource#'> select
name,address,city,state,zip into outfile 'testfile.csv' fields ...

I'm using a CFC within a page that is run through CFScheduler.  It moves a lot
of data from one table into 2 separate tables, taking about 10 steps to
complete the process.  If the program errors out at any time during the
scheduled job, I want to receive an error message by ...

The following basically get a rss feed, detects what version and parses the  
xml. My problem is that it work fine but suddenly stop at  item #36 while there
is 40 items. I put and arraylen() at the top for each element and it counts 40
titles, 35 descriptions and 40 urls. When ...

Hi...
Is it possible to print an MS Access REPORT with coldfusion?
Thx.

I create a .txt file from my query results using cffile.  I want to create a
link to that file...easy...but when the user clicks the link it displays the
content and I want the download box to appear (so the user has the choice to
'save' or 'open'). How can I do this?  TIA -bruce ...

How can I print an html page without having the printer dialog box popping up?
I have a touchscreen running IE in kiosk mode. Am using this in an exhibition.
On my product page there I have a print button which open up a window in the
background, attempts to print and then closes ...

Hello all. I need to do a few things for my site, niether of which i have a
good idea on how to do. Here they are. 1) Detect users that have not done
anything for 20 minutes and log them out, or auto log them out if they close
the browser. 2) Make a way to message other users ...