Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2007

I've been playing around with CF8's new Ajax datagrids and the underlying Ext
JavaScript libraries.  I can call some of Ext's other features using the
Coldfusion.Grid.getGridObject([gridname]) function, but it doesn't seem to
recognize some of Ext's extra cool features ...

my custom tag is outputting the generatedContent twice.  but not anything in
the tag, just what was between the calling tags.
It runs the tag once, but before it outputs the stuff in the end portion, it
outputs just what was between the calling tags.

We have a scheduled task that checks a mailbox and, depending on the request,
responds to the sender with information from our contact database. It has
worked fine for several years using CF MX 7 Standard and MS Exchange 2000. We
just changed to MS Exchange 2007 and we get an ...

The user adds master header information and hits submit, which selects a list
from the DB depending upon the user's criteria.  This list now allows the user
to select (cclselect) Yes, No, or NA for each list item, which is a radio
button.  I'm having issues getting cclselect and ...

When I want to lock a session against itself I use something like:
<cflock name="session#session.CFToken#" type=exclusive timeout=10>
[ which one assumes is logically equivalent to <cflock scope=session
type=exclusive timeout=10>]

Hi
I am trying to create a master detail page for a photography site, easy enough
but I am trying to put next and previous links on the detail page next to the
image so that you can go to the next and previous record from the original

Thanks in advance for your help!
I am having issues with upgrading an application to CF8.  The application
primarily produces pdf with specific layouts, fonts, and images.  When
upgrading to CF8, the layout of the pages is very different.  Essentially,

This can be interesting:
Take a .txt file with couples of pair values:
a = uno
b = due

So, I know about all the Is functions (e.g. IsArray, IsStruct, IsXML, etc.) but
what I can't find is any CFML function that I can feed in a variable and have
it spit out what the object's type is.
I'm currently developing an application which, as part of its error handling,

Hi i have a mysql database, and a fairly large crm system, there are some
entries in my database which being deleted somehow, and there are a few
different delete option pages.
is there away of getting an email sent to me when a row is deleted from a

I have a previous / next record navigation on my coldfusion pages. Id like
to create a navigation tool similar to the google format where users can
jump around records. eg:   Result Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Does anybody have good code or a tutorial with advice on how to ...

Does any one know how to implement  this :
A time-out warning message box (with a choice of continue or close)  to remind
the users before the session times out?
I am using MX8 on Linux box with oracle...And using CFlogin..I have session

Big headache bother me 3 days, I run the function from SQL 2005 even just take
0.1s, but when I try to call the function from the CF scripts, it loops
forever, the server host CF 6.1MX, anybody can give me a hint how to solve it?

Our production server has 2G of memory installed, however we can't allocate
more than about 1280m to the ColdFusion process.
Here is our java.args value:
java.args=-server  -DJINTEGRA_NATIVE_MODE -DJINTEGRA_PREFETCH_ENUMS

I am wondering what the difference between using CFLOGIN and a CFFORM for a login page? Is one better than the other?