Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2005

I have a calendar search from where an option is to search between dates and
riight now it never finds anything.  Do I need to do a format conversion?  or
do I need to do something to the CFOUTPUT to get it to work? Any idea. thanks.  
(MSACCESS db)

When I log into my CFMX 7 administrator and go to the Verity Collections
I get this message:
Unable to retrieve collections from the Search Service.  Please verify
that the ColdFusion MX Search Server is installed and running.

I have created a collection for searching my website. I?m able to list the
search output on to the results page. But when I display the ?summary? field of
the search output, it displays the variables as ?#VarName#?, not the value. And
the SQL queries as ?SELECT * FROM TABLE? etc ...

I am having a problem with getting formatting.  Users are uploading an excel
spreadsheet, which I am trying to parse and insert the data into my database.  
I have tried about a million different ways of doing this including: COM,
Apache POI, and custom excel2query tag.  I managed ...

Can somebody explain to me why this is happening?  I don't get it....  I'm
trying to create an array of structures using the code below.  Interestingly
enough, clearing the structure in line 8 of the code clears the structure that
was already assigned to position 1 of the array.  ...

I'm trying to consume a web service, it validates a unqiue credit card, its
located at https://thor.aafes.com/val/MilStarVendor.asmx?wsdl - I feel I'm
close to the solution, but no cigar - if anyone has a moment to look for the
obvious I'd greatly appreciate it.

i have a problem with double byte characters not displaying properly  in cf7
charts, flashpaper and PDF on win 2003 server. They all work fine on my XP dev
workstation, but all that's displayed on the win2003 server are little boxes.
Has anyone seen this issue or anything ...

A Web server that uses the Content-disposition: attachment HTTP header to force
a file download should prompt the user to open or save the file; however, in
Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the user is prompted to open or
save the HTML file instead.

I have the following code that is supposed to deliver a pdf file to the
client with the option of either opening or saving to their local drive:
<CFHEADER name="content-disposition" value="attachment;filename=#URL.path#">
<CFCONTENT type="#URL.mime#" file="#Request.repository##URL ...

I am using web services to connect to SQL Reporting Services on our production
CF 6.1 box. After upgrading to CF 7, I cannot connect via web services to SQL
Reporting Services now. I can hit other web services using CF 7 without a
problem. I have two separate boxes running SQL ...

Up until recently I was having no Session issues. However, recently I had to
start using some J2EE code in one of my CF templates. By accident I discovered
that I now have an error whenever the session expires. After looking up some
information regarding this error, I tried ...

I have a database full of contact details but some havethe same email address
but have different names  all these email address have to be emailed info
automatically but at the moment they get duplicate emails  is there a way in my
SQL query that i can get rid of the duplicate ...

Dear Sir/Madam,
I have passed the Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX Developer exam in
November 20, 2004 and I have not received the certification kit yet. I have
sent you more than 4 emails without getting any response.

Help Needed,
Can any one please explain why do we loose client variables when we delete cookie variables from the browser ?

I am so sure I did this before but am struggling with it now...any help
appreciated:  I have a list of papers that I need to sort under topical
categories, some papers go under multiple categories....                      
item1 'category1'        title 1     item2  'category1' ...