Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / June 2005

 I am using createObject to instantiate Java classes.  I am getting variable
null is undefined error when calling the constructor.
<cfset ht = createObject("java","java.util.Hashtable")>
<cfset ctx = createObject("java","javax.naming.ldap.InitialLdapContext")>

I have 3 different user roles and was wonder what the best practice for
handling the different output they see when going to the same page. For example
admin sees more information than other roles who visit the same page ect.
Should this just be handled with a bunch a cfif's ...

I've having difficulties with the CF Administrator that was just installed on
an existing Win2000 server.  Whenever I try to bring up CF Administrator...I'm
prompted with the windows login.  I've went through all the directories to make
sure rights have been properly set...and ...

Hey All,
i wanna input a query to a component, but everytime i do this it gives an
error " u can not convert complex values to simple ones".
 i tried Ben forta's solution in advanced techniques , by making the function

Well I have a question that maybe someone out there would be able to answer.
I have a page named rfLogin.cfm
In this page I have a CFInclude to Logon.cfm
In this Logon.cfm I have two textboxes. I need to set the focus to the

Hi all, is it possible to bind a textfield with a checkbox.  What I am trying
to do is, if the checkbox is selected todays date will display in the textbox
next to it.  If the checkbox is cleared the date is deleted.
Thanks in advance for your help.

message to forums requesting help about approach to crowbar calendar
I have been working on a dynamic calendar for a local music venue.
when i'm finished with it, i want it to be able to display the new content
while using a preformatted template and css, so that the formatting ...

Tearing my hair out trying to figure this out. If anyone can provide any help
i would greatly appreciate it. When I try to do an insert into my MS SQL
Database, keep getting following error....
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Disallowed implicit conversion

Anyone can point me to a resource or tutorial online about tracking users who
have logged into my application? I've built a forum, but would like to show the
status of these users if they are currently logged on or not. Thank you all in
advance.

I can't seem to find out how to do this correctly. I have a field with comma
delimited
text that I need to query against to find a match.
Scenario: A school logs in and would like to see names of volunteers for their

Is there a way to control Excel column widths that are generated from CF?  The
export works perfectly from cfquery, but I'd like to adjust the column widths
for easier printing for the end-user.  I've attempted to use the width
attributes for <td> but it makes no changes ...

I'm trying to cluster 2 cfservers running on the same host.
I have managed to create a 2nd JRUN server using a J2EE arcive. I can get both
servers up and running and I manage to add the to a cluster. As long as I don't
turn on session replication everything works fine. Whe I turn ...

I am trying to call a cfx java tag from within my cfm page, but I kept getting
an error with return "null -1". After trying several things, I added a main()
method to my cfx tag that outputs "hello world", and the errors stopped, but it
is now returning "hello world" to my page ...

Hi all, I have created a cfm that tracks the stages in projects.  Once the user
clicks a checkbox next to a stage in the project, it stamps that stage with
with a date and saves the info to a database.  Is there an easy way to produce
a progress bar that shows the amount of the ...

what I would like to do is if a user submits a new article and they set the
order of the article to 1 then I would like a script to go through the table
and increment the current items so that there would not be to items with the
same order. but I would also like it to stop if ...