Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / June 2007

Not sure if this is possible but this has to be the best place to ask!
I have 2 datasources 1 is all the members of my department and another is all
the publications the department members have written.
I have a field in the publications datasource which contains all co-authors

I need to create a form using dreamweaver and coldfusion. We do not have
coldfusion server. just Dreamweaver 8. Until we decide what application server
we will use, I need to create a text file each time a user submits data from a
form and put  the data into a text file. What ...

Hello i need help on CFIF for check boxes being inserted in the database field
car_make.
At this point multiple values is inserted in the field car_make.  i wish to
have only one value depending on what is checked in the check box.    

I have finally gotten weblogic to work with coldfusion, still not sure
completely how... but thanks to everyone who helped (esp cf_dev2 )~
Now I have an error for one of the methods I am trying to call to load an xml
file. It says that I am overloading the method and I need to ...

I had a problem when I view a graph, for example <cfchartdata  
item="#Depart_Name#"  value="#Salary#">. if depart_name to long the name did
not be display. how can i DISPLAY Depart_Name in vertical?anyone?

I am using  
style="position:relative;top:expression(this.offsetParent.scrollTop);"
When I have drop down select box  and i scroll do then drop down box show up
in my menu. How can i hide that

Hello i am getting this error.
Error Occurred While Processing Request  
Context validation error for tag cfoutput.  
 10:54:52.052 - Template Exception - in : line -1

I keep getting a DB CFC error. For some reason CF freaks out when I enter
negative numbers into a flash form an pass it to a CFC has anyone else had this
problem before? If so can anyone help me figure this out. Again it only freaks
out when I enter negative numbers (example: ...

I'm working on a Flex project that uses cfc's and MySQL. I have an
ArrayCollection that I want to store in my db. I was thinking that I could
store it as a BLOB. I'm taking a stab at it now but I thought I'd put the
feelers out to see if anyone has any ideas of how to do this.

I'm hoping that I'm not the only person that this has happened to.
While trying to generate a word file, I get coldfusion error message:
unexpected constant #182 -1.
The trace gives me: java.lang.IllegalStateException: unexpected constant #182

Hiya,
I'm looking for a piece of CF code that strips email addresses from a string.
It needs to be smart, so that various patterns can be detected and stripped.
Ex: email@domain.com, email at domain dot com, email@ domain .com, email at

I am facing problem trying to run calc.exe using cfexecute tag .
its starts process in background but never starts application( we can see the
process running in TaskManager but cant see application).
Please guide me how to resolve this prob.

Hi, thank you for looking at this question, I have an application that has
normal users that update data and admin users.  Every 3 months (Quarterly), the
admin checks to see which users have not updated their records.  In the admin
interface, there would be buttons like ...

Help! I have an app that will be accepting a POST request to a page from an
external app, and I have no control over the field names it's submitting.
Unfortunately one of them ends with _time, so CF is trying to validate the
data? How do I get around this? I'm using CFMX 6.1 on ...

I have been trying to get this final step completed for my application and just
cannot seem to get a answer. I need to retriev a value from a xml post.
I am using xmlsearch to find the result:
<cfset customer.firstname = xmlsearch(xmlcustomer, "name[@part='first']")>