Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2007

My users are entering responses into to a textarea which is submitted to my
database. Then I'm displaying the text using CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE
suppresswhitespace="no" so the white space is displayed. But now its expanding
my table too far when people don't use a return.  

Working locally I can access a web service with the following 2 files in
directory root, no mappings, no config of web service in Administrator:
<!--- /simpleTextConsume.cfm/ --->
<cfcomponent>

I'm having a problem with CFWINDOW in Firefox. The problem doesn't happen with
IE.
I create a cfwindow that houses help. When the user clicks on the little help
icon for a particular field, the window pops up (and is modal) . In firefox, if

My code:
<cfform name="test" format="Flash">
<cfinput name="test1" type="text">
<cfinput name="test2" type="text">

I am hoping there is a simple fix for this. I created a web service that I
can get to work fine with a cfinvoke:
<cfinvoke
 webservice =

There are possibilities to get values as below,
<cfquery name="getHistory"  datasource ="#session.odbcfeed#">
     select h.routempid, h.Actingempid
         from #variables.child02table# h

How do I test for a Null value?  I have a query that returns the database
fields, and in the output of the page, I want to include a little if statement
where I can say if this one field is null, display a "No Value" message.

Using CF8:
[li]Is it possible to  store ColdFusion components in the session scope when
using clustering and session failover?
[li]Is it possible to replicate their state across a ColdFusion MX cluster?

Can any one point me in the right direction as to connect to a web service that is not generated by coldfusion.
cheers

I have got this code for a html cfgrid.
<cfgrid   
    name="Foods"
    format="html"

I have a CF page that reads some tab-delimited text files for processing.  
After it reads a file it then calls a CF page to move the file to a new
location.  It moves the file, but it does not delete the old version -- and a
filesystem delete on the file fails -- it appears as if ...

In CF 8, is there any function to compress an uploaded image so the size is
smaller to display on browser? If I use cfzip, I cannot display it as jpg /
gif, right?
Looking forward for your reply.

I am aware that this is an issue that comes up from time to time, but I have
been uable to find specific mentions of this problem being quite as bad as I
seem to have it. I am running CF7 on a win2k3 server with a dual-core athlon 64
3700 w/ 2GB of ram, and a SQL Server 2005 ...

I am creating xml file from query and then read  xml file as pdf using cf
document.
So I have my list in the website  as xml file and pdfs So if click on xml it
should ask me for download/save as and same thing for pdf. How can I do that. I

I have set a session variable to hold the name of a column dependent on who the
user is. Is it possible to use a session variable to select a column in a
database table? If so, how? Does it need a where statement?
Something like this?: