Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / August 2005

Does anyone know how, in Coldfusion MX, to NOT display the page number and page
name when printing a HTML page in a web browser. Is there some code to put in
the page to suppress the page information?
I am using CFFORM to create a html page which looks good until I want to print

The question has come up, how to lock a section of an application so two users
can not update the same form at once.  Let?s say there is some type of work
flow in an HR application.  There is a section to update an employee's Contact
Information.  

I have a query that I want to push to the user as a .CSV file.  I have the
following code.  I only create a temporary file, then I want it deleted after
the user downloads the file.  This pushes the file to the user, but never
deletes the temporary file.  I expected the ...

I am getting this err.Note:sometimes the same insert statement works fine..
Error Executing Database Query.  
[Macromedia][Oracle JDBC Driver][Oracle]ORA-01843: not a valid month  
The error occurred in D:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\Calendar\add\addres.cfm: line 8

I've got a little CFC that is basically like a cart. When trying to call the
"add" method via a URL, I get an error saying my storage variable is undefined
in the CFCs variables scope, even though I set it in the init() method. The
relevant code has been attached.

I want to create a robust FAQ application
Features:
FAQ Page ID's
FAQ CATEGORY

Hi  Just wondering if anyone on the list is using CF and XML to create and / or
read Excel or Word docs.  We have apps using Excel and Word server-side to
create and read Excel files and create Word files. We know this is not
recommened but the app is almost 3 years old and using ...

I really hesitated posting this problem here, however I have tried over and
over to find a solution to this problem with no luck at all and Im really
stuck!!
We have a form that gets users to rank various 'skills' - each skill can have

I had been using a custom tag available through Macromedia Exchange to add
users into Active Directory.  Once I upgraded to MX 6;1 the tag no longer
works.  Does anyone know of a tag that will do the same for MX 6.1? Also, I
would need to apply a global group to the user.

I need to produce a "print quality" PDF file using CFDOCUMENT.  By "print
quality" I mean a file that can be taken straight to press by a commercial
printer.  The problem I am having is as follows:
The PDF contains only text.  The text is dynamically generated; and I'm using

Is there a function that allows me to search by the week number?  What I
mean is, there are 52 weeks in the year, is there a function where I can
enter week number 12, and CF will search on dates that fall within that week
of the year without me having to know what those dates ...

I have the form for user to fill out and generated the syntax based on what
they enter.  I am using this code to generate the syntax in text format.
<cffile action="append" file="#getdirectoryfrompath(path_translated)#
Script.txt"

How do I post xml to the remote server? They gave me the url to post the xml
data to, that will in turn echo back the requested xml data, but what's the
process?
Simplified, this is what I have so far...

I need to compare file sizes where we're trying to determine if a file output
changed since yesterday.  We were thinking of reading the files into variables
and then hashing each of the files to determine if the files are actually the
same.  Currently we're only checking for file ...

When a 2nd user logs in creating a new session, all session data from the new
user is overwriting the previous user's session data.
Does ColdFusion allow for multiple concurrent sessions?
When a user logs in I save the Username, FName, LName in a session variable