Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / August 2005

Ok. All I want to do is the equivilant of the following ftp command (for
starters). But I cannot figure out how to use a wildcard in cfftp with action =
"ListDir". I always get the following error: "550 /%.pdf: The system cannot
find the file specified." Can this be done?

Hi Foks,
I'm trying to build an e-mail client that can retrieve and diplay Hotmail (or
any other http) e-mails. With all the new advancess since CF 6.0 and stronger
XML functions, I was wondering if anyone knows of such a solution. Obviously

On page load session.status is "none".
Run query checking help_desk_list table if duedate is now, if status is open,
and if the name for the record is the same in table techstable (to retrieve
tech's email) and if remind is yes.

Is it possible to reference a recordset by field name index, rather than field
name?  Rather than saying:
myquery.field
I want to reference the field by a number (like I would do in ASP) so I can

I'm trying to create a variable which is a comma-delimited list of the output
from a query on a database.
I want to be able to create a single variable which looks like
variable="queryresult1,queryresult2,etc."

I found a great bit of code (from bpurcell.org - thanks!) that gets a list of
scheduled tasks on your server with all the details:
<cfobject type="JAVA" action="Create" name="factory"
class="coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory">

I am trying to move a Password application into a Component.  I am not quite
sure where to properly place these local variables that I have set.  I keep
getting an error message that says. Local variable createpassword on line 52
must be grouped at the top of the function body.   ...

Can CF call regular Dll's? (non activeX Dll's). The Dll's are written in VB 6.
Thanks
Ned Flanders

One user is logged in. What does the Coldfusion server
do  when a second user attempts to login, using the first user's
login credentials? Please give as much technical detail as you can.

i am using cfhttp to query a text file which works really well.  the only
problem is that cfhttp assumes that the first row contains column headers.  or
you can specify column headers for it to use but if you do this, it skips the
first line of the file.  the problem is that the ...

Hi everyone,
I have about ten applications on the one server.
each application requires user authentication.
Each application authenticates against the same "e-directory" using LDAP.

I have different code to be executed depending on what's going on. For example,
an add ticket routine, a delete ticket, close, saveupdate description,
saveupdate.
I had them in <cftransactrion> but because some include mult. datasources i

How should a query look like if i only what to list those records from the database where there is NO DATE
in the collumn closed.
Thanks in advance

Like the summary suggests, I am attempting to pull data from an Access database
and create an aging chart based upon a field called, "datesold". I am not
seeming to get this to work. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
~Clay

Hi All, does anyone know if it is possible to have a print button or print this page link that will print the current page using cfdocument??
Thanks in advance