Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2005

I have a custom tag I use quite often for formatting large strings with HTML
paragraph tags as well as some other useful text manipulation like auto-linking
URLs.  Recently, I discovered teh tag will cause errors when the supplied
string contains a # character. How can I ...

I am having a problem  populating a table from a structure.  Currently I have a
CFC that returns a structure.  The data in the structure is used  to populate a
series of text boxes in a table (like a data grid). The dimensions of the grid
are 2 rows by a variable number of ...

Creating a Coldfusion Stockmusic site.  And I'm having issues allowing users to
download the tracks they have purchased because of the differences between the
way IE and Mozilla based browsers opperate.
I was thinking of using an Agent or <CFHTTP> to download the track to the

This seems to be completely random:  we are generating charts using cfchart,
saving them as JPG files on the server.  When you look at them on the screen,
they appear to be fine.  However, we are also wrapping them in a cfdocument
tag, and emailing the resulting pdf file to users ...

Does anyone know of a way to print a document (let's say an MS-Word document)
from a Cold Fusion page?  
I have a list of documents on a page and a printer icon next to each one.  If
the user clicks on a specific printer icon, I would like that corresponding

Hi everyone..
I have a custom tag titled "thisdate"
My application calls for the week to end on Friday, so my date display
looks like... saturday (date) sunday (date) etc.. ending with Friday.

What would you folks say is the most efficient way to capture a query
variable and use it through a site??
Bill

I need to submit a form to an external website yet NOT follow browser focus to
that site.  Sort of like spinning off a separate
process and continuing on my way within our site.  It has to be immmediate and
reliable.

Is there a CF equaivalent to the ASP:PANEL web form?  In other words a tag to
wrap certain pieces of content whose visibility property can be manipulated on
the server at run time?  Just trying to seperate business and display logic.
-- Rich

Hey guys. I got a problem. This only happens on our machines that are behind an
F5 load balancer (in failover/standby mode).  One machine is in CFMX
standalone/jrun integrated mode. The other is in CFMX for J2EE. They both have
the same problem in that they'll run fine for a few ...

I am trying to generate a 'contact sheet' of images from one of our system.  I
loop over them and output them via cfdocument and cfcontent.  A 6 page 153
image document displays fine, however a 200 image document crashes out with
'JRun Connector Protocol Error.'

I write a component "hint.cfc" and it work if the cfm file stay in the same
folder...but I want to call this component with all the cfm files of the website
Iin a subdirectory, it doesn't work : how could I give the path of the
component...

I am working on a website and I need to create a way that users can send their
state legislators a pre-written email message directly from the website.
Ideally, I'd like for it to work like this...  1) The user clicks an 'Email
Your Senator' link on the site. 2) The user is ...

I've spent hours scouring the web for a tutorial or udf or something that would
help me do this and have come up with nothing.  So I'm really hoping someone
here can offer some insight; it's my last chance.  If you have any thoughts,
please post them.  Even a little help is ...

All right,
I've got quite a big output on my page which I want to split in pages of let's
say 10 or 20 products.
How do I do this ? I've already sorted the products by first letter but I