Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2008

This is a little strange.  I've got a server side redirect that works fine on
my CF8 development server but throws an IllegalStateException when run at my
host (hostmysite.com).
The error persists until I browse to the  target page manually.  Then the

I have an CFC that I set in application scope in the onApplicationStart method
which contains some system parameters, one of which is a flag saying whether
the site is currently "Online".  I call a method on this CFC in the
Application.cfc "onRequest" method to see if the flag ...

I was testing a cfgrid and because of an error in the code it took a long time
to respond so I hit the IE6 (I know, but that is my customer's call) stop
button and tried to submit the grid request a second and then a third time. I
received 3 error messages, one for each of the ...

Need help w/ a form technique.
If I have X number of check boxes that are created dynamically, from 1 to X.
On submit, I want to check if the box is checked, and if it is checked perform
an action.  I wrote the below but it's not working, need some help.

Problem in the following code...
<!--- Gets all information with in a table from the SQL DB - columns type and
name of a table from the SQL Database --->
<cfinvoke

I have the following wsdl:
<xs:simpleType name="moneyType">
   <xs:restriction base="decimal">
          <xs:fractionDigits value="2"/>

I use DW CS3 with CF8.
I have a country form on a shipping page.  If the country is USA, I want to
make the state form a select box that outputs a query named "qryStateList" that
list all the states in the USA.  If the country is NOT USA, I want the state

We have an application that periodically indexes the document folder using
cfindex.
If the folder contains PDF documents not created using CFPDF and are standard,
the verity index process works correctly.

Hey guys, I have an excel page does some giant calculation. I can use CF to
modify the cell values that are inputs to the formula, but the formula only
updates once I open up the excel file with Excel (I have found this to be true
with simple formulas as well). So, if I use CF to ...

I have an array like this :
DATA  |   YEAR   |   SCENARIO   |  JAN  |   FEB   |   MAR   |   ....
data1        2008             1                120       101         109  
data2        2008             2                120       105         104  

How can I generate a PDF file in binary format in coldfusion?

Im just about to start a new project and was woundering if any one had any
pointers on how I can group by weeks when selecting data
Each line of data consists of a part number and a due date for example.
I wish to select data and group by weeks 21 / July -  27 / July  etc

i have date like 02/02/02008
and i am using isdate function and its return true.  any idea why?
Year has 02008 which is incorrect. so how can i validate that.
thanks

I'm working on a project where we have to create a lot of reports. Our
accountant loves the fact that we can export to Excel so she can then use the
data and do her own calculations, formatting, etc. Now she's asking if when we
export to Excel, if certain columns can be hidden so ...

I am using event gateways to send and receive via SMS, IM, and Email.  I can go
back and forth just fine, and if the client initiates the session, session
persistence is not a problem.
Sometimes, though, we need the server to initiate the session and the client