Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

Can anyone tell me why this code returns an error. Whats the correct code?
Thanks in advance
[Q]<cfquery datasource="#request.dsn#" name="testd">
    SELECT f.forumID, f.forumName, t.forumID, t.topicID, p.topicID, p.postID

I have a web page that contains a header and a footer. If the page is inside a
cfwindow I want to remove them and show. Otherwise the footer and header should
be there.
Please tell me a way to do that.

I created a flashpaper .cfm page and it appears to run perfectly until I call
it from a form action page.  I saw a previous thread that mentioned a problem
with this, but no solution was rendered.
I'm running on a goaddy.com server with CF7.  My browser is IE 7.0.5730.11.

  I have a cfc published as a webservice. I have insert statements in the cfcs
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error form
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Hello.  I have a news site that aggregates the latest headlines from major news
sources.  I want to allow other sites to have a widget of the latest headlines
and am not sure how to approach this.  I'd rather have a nice flash widget but
am not sure how to pass data to it if ...

Anyone else have this issue when trying to use cfsearch against a
collection? If so, was there a fix? We installed the search server when we
installed CF8 as a package install.
Message Unable to connect to the ColdFusion Search service.

I am trying to create a special datagrid to store new member of a project (the
interface is to create new project). I am able to open a cfwindow if the user
want to add a new member into the datagrid. The cfwindow will consist of a form
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I have had a set pages using the CfExchange tags working fine with our old
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I have the developper edition of CF8,
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On any <cfimage tag used or image function,
(any method used)

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everyone of them. No problem. What I was asked is to know how many of them
actually read the newsletter. I have search the web for an answer and found
that nothing is 100% bullet proof. The client is aware ...

I keep on getting the below error from the last week.
Timed out while waiting to obtain exclusive access<P> <p>The error occurred
while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFLOCK), occupying
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Dears,  In coldfusion 8, we are trying to implement a web service call in
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I'm trying to use Ajax to submit a form to update a database. Every time I
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Does anyone know how I can reset a client variable, client.afid, after a user
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I have a list of users ordered by last  name. The request has come that the
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I.E.