Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2005

Hello,  Changing the MIME type of a request is easy enough but what about the
filename too?    I have an 'attachment.cfm' page which returns an 'attachment',
a JPG for example... It works fine except as far as the browser knows, the
filename is 'attachment.cfm', not 'image.jpg' ...

I am trying to generate a pricelist report using the new CF 7 Report Builder.  
When I add an image to the reprt and try to dynamically build the filename the
preview very quickly goes to 'Page cannot be displayed'.  I've also tried using
a BLOB field and I get the same thing.  I ...

Hello,  In ColdFusion MX when I grab a value from a form POST using 'myvar =
form.notes' I sometimes get wierd translations if a user enters some
non-standard characters. This seems to happen most often in a free form fields
to hold comments and notes.  On my form I am using both ...

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in XML or WebServices?  Maybe I
need to use CFC's???
What I am trying to do is, attached to this posting is code that is a query
from a database.  The result is just a table with columns and data that is

Hi All,  Heres my problem...  This snippet of code: <cfif
isDefined('#evaluate('COOKIE.poll' &amp; FORM.pollID)#')>  is causing this
error: Variable COOKIE.poll2 is undefined.   Does anyone know why? Thanks,  
Richard ps. I'm using CF MX &amp; Win2003

I'm having some problem with a "Are you sure???" popup in flash forms.
I want to delete a row from the cfgrid if clicked of and if clicked cancel do
nothing.
This is my button onclick event:

I'm trying to get a standard password / repeat passord validation to work in a
Flash form. I assume I need to use javascript validation but  do I use it with
the onValidate function of the fields in question or do I use the onSubmit of
the form?   I'm finding it confusing as I ...

Does anyone know if it's possible to simulate a Javascript  onClick event in a
CFGrid column? I have a checkbox column that needs to trigger some Javascript
code when clicked. I know I can use the  ActionScript  GetURL function to
actually run the JS but I can't figure out how to ...

I have been having quiet some difficulties understanding the binding that has
to be done to bind between one CFSELECT result and the bind to the second and
then the third CFSELECT which needs to be dynamically populated.
Hows is this done? I have removed the binding I had done. ...

I would like to know if I can use cfgridcolumn to sort by a field other than
what I want to display. For example, this is my query:
<cfquery name="myQuery"....>
select rank, description

We have an Intranet application that will be available to all who authenticate
to the domain. How do we set up the application to query the user's workstation
for the Environmental Variables showing their username and that they have
authenticated to the network. By returning the ...

Good morning.  I have a few pages on an Intranet site that utilize the cfchart
tag.  They were all working fine, as of last week, but this morning, without
any messages in the logs, they seem to be broken.  The charts generate "jpg"
images, but in place of the images, there is ...

I'm using Coldfusion MX.
After a form is submitted, an "action" page is called. That page contains the
queries and stored procedures that need to be done once that form is submitted.
At the bottom of that page, I have a <cflocation> tag to redirect the user to

I have created a webservice which is running fine on BEA Weblogic, the WDSL is
generated automatically.
When I try to invoke the ws method "getFile" from coldfusion it states ...
ILLEGAL ARGUMENT EXCEPTION ...

How do you check the array elements empty or not.
for example, I have array[1] - array[10] , and from array[2]  to array [10]
has some value, and there is no value in array[1]. How can I check it. Because
before I can check it using