Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2005

Is it just me or does the engine used to render the HTML  cfdocument tag
severely lacking in sane behavior.  I can code HTML to display the way I want
it displayed with IE, moz, opera all with the same code.  However when I try to
get the internal engine with CF7 (the idea I ...

Hello,  I'm using CFGRID inside of  a CFFORM format='flash'.  It's pretty sweet
functionality.  Just got CFMX 7 2 days ago and I'm loving it already! :>    
However,  I can't get the date mask to work in my flash-formatted CFGRID
column.  When I don't have the mask attribute, the ...

The BIND part of cfinput is great.
Now I need to format the number calculated so I only see two decimal places.
Tried our DecimalFormat command and it doesn't work .

Anyone know how to set focus in the new flash forms you create with cfform
type="flash" ?
The old java method doesn't work, I tried actionscript comand in the bind

Using ColdFusion 7, is there a way to tell a Flash formatted cftree control to
open to a specific node?  
I can retrieve a selected node using form.treename.path, but how do I specify
the path that should be open when I first arrive at the tree control?  Is that

<cfoutput query='sqlGetAgents' group='areaName'>     <h4>#areaName#</h4>
    <cfoutput group='agentID'>         <p><strong>#agentName#</strong></p>     </cfoutput>
</cfoutput>  how do i get the recordcount of the number of items within the
nested cfoutput ?  thanks  

last name of a customer in the form of (last_name, first_name) but the first
and last  name are too different columns of the database and all i can figure
out  is only firstname , or only last name.

When a user clicks the window close block/x in the top right corner I need to
send the browser to a logout script page that logs them out and closes the
window.  I have about 300 pages in this site so something that could be
included in a Application.cfm file would be awesome.

Hello All,  I am try to create a dynamic search page where the admin would
create the fields or dropdowns for the user to select. For this example, we'll
say a dropdown for month (01, 02, 03, etc.) and year (2001, 2002, 2003, etc.).
now on the next page I want the admin to be ...

I am trying to get a 90th percentile number out of a list of numbers.  
Example...  Number List = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and the 90th percent number
would be 10 Number List = 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and the 90th percent number
would be 11 Number List = 4,5,5,6,6 and the 90th ...

In SQL Server, I use CHAR to store UUID as primary for all my tables.
Is there any performance disadvantage when performing linking with multiple
tables? (i am concerning the indexing for CHAR field in SQL server)
Is using INT to store primary key a better way?

Could somebody exlpain me how I can validate a multilingual form with
LSIsDate()?  For this I create a test script by setting the current local with
SetLocal() from the selectbox and further validate with the LSIsDate(). This
application should validate the date reference the ...

Encrypting URL using this sequence:
<a
href="tiercontrol.cfm?page=#urlencodedformat(encrypt("addmember",session.employe
e.userid))#">

Did someone try to generate a FlashPaper or PDF Document from a page that
follows the web standarts?
The main problem that occurs while you try to generate documents is with
images.

We are currently receiving a txt file from another DB.  We need to import this
file into a Database using coldfusion.  The delimiter that is used is |.  The
first row is the column header.  Any help would be appreciated.