Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

In my chart I have values ranging from 100 to 1000.  I want to place a solid
horizontal line at value 750 that extends across the entire chart.  Is this
possible?  Also, Is it possible to make unique URL links for each of the values
in the legend?  I am using CF8 Any help is ...

In CF7, I have a routine that opens submitted PDF files through Java to do some
manipulation.  Similar to CF8 PDF manipulation, but more complex.  In almost
all cases, it works fine, except two.
For one, a submitted PDF was corrupted somehow -- I can't even open it with

We're doing email broadcasts which have begun to choke our outgoing smtp server
so I need to send them out as smaller groups at fixed intervals.  So 1,000
emails in batches of 100 every 10 minutes would take well over an hour which is
fine for sending but NOT for the CF server!

I am using Session variables to keep track of the user (ie user name, id, etc).
Some of my pages contain text input using:
<cftextarea name="TextInput" richtext="Yes" toolbar="Basic" />
The problem that I am having is that if the user is entering text and they

I have had the hardest time getting cfgridupdate to work.  Has anyone had
success with it?  I am using CF7.  
The first error was due to not passing the primary key.  I've done this with a
display="no" option on the cfgridcolumn property of the primary key variable.

I just can't seem to wrap my head around this one today.
I need to find the date for a specific day. For example, the first Friday in
November. I can't seem to work out that first Friday part.

I was assigned a project to produce multiple Excel files with the press of a
single button.  I am able to generate the files using CFCONTENT/CFHEADER.  I
used javascript to submit a form multiple times with different parameters to
generate the separate files.  I couldn't figure a ...

Could someone help with this query? I want to select customers who have viewed
a property in the last 14 days.
This is what i tried but not working...it seems to select all customers. Any
help would be appreciated.

Hi, i have been having a issue with my coldfusion scheduler in the
cfadministrator.
every now and then the scheduler stops working ie runs  the schedule then does
not re-schedule, according to the scheduler log files.

Can anyone tell me how to handle this situation? I want to include information
about the bands in a music calendar w/o having to re-enter the band websites or
descriptions for each entry. So the bands have their own table. The idea  for
data entry is to 1) select a location 2) ...

I made a query and displayed the data with <CFGRID>. What I now want to do is
to make a button on the page to open the content/data in excel. [export to
excel]. Is this possible in coldfusion? What do I have to do to get this
started?

I'd like to run a backup routine when there is nobody active in our
application. I have an cfm applet that will do this, looking for live sessions
and looping every 60 seconds. We have SessionTimeOut set for 2 hours. If users
log out, everything is clean, but if they close their ...

Hello all, I am constantly banging my head on my desk and I am needing some
assistance I hope someone out there has done.
I am working with a credit card verification type of company who I need to
integrate my ColdFusion app with.  They have provided me with a web service to

My application allows each user to checkout one item at a time.   This is
enforced via session.item_ID, which can hold only one item at a time.  Is there
a way a session can access item_ID of all other concurrent sessions?  Then I
could make sure that a user doesn?t checkout an ...

I have a client who has given me a task.. and I can't find the answer.
Their site has a form that uses CFMAL to send an email to their admin email
address.
When the email arrives, it shows up in Times New Roman font, which is fine.