Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2007

Developers,
I realize that iText has been widely discussed here and Coldfusion MX 8 now
includes the <cfpdf> tag to merge and alter pdfs, but my company still uses
CFMX 7 and PDFLib and am hoping for some assistance in altering pdflib code to

At work, I was required to create a report. We do not have the ColFusion report
tool so when we are creating reports we use the <cfdocument> tags. I will
explain now what my structure was about. I was required to break down the
students in a school by grade then within each grade ...

I'm a little frustrated with CF8 and the new Spry functions. I'm trying to
convert my old autosuggests to the cfinput and binding with a function in a
cfc. I'm trying to follow the examples but getting the following error;
Error invoking CFC /components/tsijobads cfc. Internal ...

I sure home someone can help me with this.
I am trying to run dynamic loops and am stumped with how to call a variable
name.
As you can see, calling the variable names just isnt going to work out the way

Hi all. I am trying to create some statistics/graphs such as how many days pass by between two dates exluding weekends...
How will I start doing that ?
I am using oracle 10g with CF 8.

I am using the CFLAYOUT tab structure to create an ajax style app. All the
async form submits work great but a few forms I want to reload the tab (set to
reload on click) simply because the display will be different. I've tried
several ways to use the Coldfusion.navigate() ...

Hey Guys,
I am trying to make sure that a certain page requested is alway secure but for
some reason the code I am using is not working. Any idea why?
<cfif CGI.SERVER_PORT neq 443>

How can I loop threw and display 2 records as separate and store into db. thanx
<Row>
 <employee>
  <id>232</id>  

I have a report that my users can print in three formats: PDF, CSV and Flash
paper. I am having problems with the flash paper version of the report! When I
am testing my report in my development sandbox my reports looks ok. When I see
it in production two fields look  together. ...

I want to be able to choose from a select and have it filter the results in the
grid.  You can check any record you want and when you submit it I'd want to see
all the changes whether checked or unchecked.  
This example only works on the query first loaded into the grid.  When ...

hi i have just changed over to a new web server and i am using geoLocator which
is now giving this error
any ideas what is wrong?
Error Occurred While Processing Request  

I would like to create xml file from query.
<Name>
 <ADDRESS>
 <ctity>ANN</city>

I am outpting result from query using cfsavecontnent and then output using
XMLFormat function. When I write into file
It is displaying line format. I try to put <BR> in my code but it doesn't work
. It will put <BR> tag in xml output.

I'm totally stumped!
Some users are having a problem with our site because CF can't seem to
maintain the session.  The users keep saying their browsers are set to accept
cookies but CF, for some reason, can't read them.  I am having a hard time

I'm new to CF OO, so apologies if this is dumb question.
How do I destroy an object that has been made persistant by giving it
application scope?
Researching this I've found two things: