Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2008

I am trying to loop through the results of a CFFTP ListDir command, but only a
single response is showing up in my output.  What am I doing wrong?
<cfftp action="listdir" connection="my_query" name="dirquery"
directory="/array1/Plasma">

CF8hf3, W2K3, IIS.
Site1\application.cfc  (-> this.name = "site1";)
Site1\Components\MyComponent.cfm
Site1\UseComponentToShowSiteNameOnSite1.cfm

I'm using CF7's cfdocument tag  (with no hope of upgrading to CF8 anytime
soon).   I'm generating PDFs and not able to display .bmp or .tiff files in the
PDF.    This was a known issue in this version.  
[bullet]Has there been a fix, hotfix, or scheduled fix?[/bullet]

Anyone with knowledge of this problem please reply - thanks!
On a version 7.02 server I have a process where:
1. We run page1 which populates a table with X records
2. page1 also creates a scheduled task to run page2 to process those X records

I can't seem to get a simple BIND value to work on my form.  Basically, I'm
trying to get the value of the first field (hsName) which is generated from an
autosuggest, and based on that value, call a CFC to get the zipcode based on
the school's name.  The autosuggest works fine.  ...

Hi all -
I just did a cfdump of a cfc I instantiated, and within that dump I see all
the methods returned as well as the instance data. This leads me to believe
that each instance contains its own copy of the cfc's methods.

I am trying to present several questionnaires to subjects. Within some of these
questionnaires are lists of adjectives which they will rate with the same
7-point scale (radio buttons). I have to randomize the list of adjectives when
presented. I've been able to accomplish this by ...

I am a noob in CF, please can you help me with it, i am trying to work
using CFGRID, can the CFGRID have dropdown in it, yes i know , can you
please tell me how to populate the dropdown values when we select a
value in another dropdown in the same grid?

I'm currently using <CFContent TYPE="application/uwi_form"> to view a IBM Lotus
Form.  But MX7 and CF8 no longer has this CFContent type.  Does anyone has a
work around to open a file extension "XFDL"?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

If I use the source property in CFWINDOW and specify a file I want to load
within it the page does load but none of my css styles are present.  What do I
need to do to get my stylesheet to be seen within cfwindow?
Thanks.

I have a c# website that I'm trying to send encrypted urls to via my cold
fusion 7 application.  I have control of both the c# and the cf code.  The cf
site is doing the encryption, and the c# code is doing the decryption (2
different sites sharing data).

I have a SQL Server 2000 database where the createDate field has a default
value of GETDATE() and the data type is datetime.  It is inserting the date
just fine, but I do not want to capture the time along with the date.  I only
want the date to be entered.  How can I accomplish ...

In CF8 multi-server you can duplicate an instance (multiple times if you
desire) and link them all together as a cluster.  Is this purely for fail-over
or is there also a performance increase?  If it is for fail-over, how would you
know if one of your cluster members has failed ...

while reading xml I get error content is not allowed to prolog.
I tried removing while space, Save doc as utf-8 encoding.
What is about this encoding?
I am using XMLParse() to read document. Is there any other way I can read xml

I'm looking ti access the coldfusion admin api using web services, but not
from coldfusion so I cant use the normal
createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("admin"); I've
tried using SOAP to request the login method at