Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / July 2004

Having a hell of a time with dropdown menus. I can get the list/menu to populate, but the behavior I'm looking for doesn't occur.
I've created a Master Recordset Navigation page that allow you to view items, click on the code and open and update the detail. But, I need to be able ...

I have a database with some one-to-many relationships (and my first time
 working with one-to-many) and the query below is supposed to return
all the "many" records from tblTerm table.  The one side is tblBilling.
 However, the query is just returning only one record (not the ...

     Error Diagnostic Information
     An error has occurred while processing the expression:
session.this_number=CFTempOnlyForSetVariableNeverUseThisNameInYourCFMLCode12
2333444455555654321

I had been using a CFLDAP snippet of code (running on CFServer 5.1) that breaks after we upgraded to CFMX Server.  It is a basic anonymous query that does not require authentication or anything complex.  I get the following error:
The tag does not allow the attribute(s) DN. The ...

Has anyone in the group gotten CF up and running with MySql on OSX and
understand all the settings. I've been trying to find good resources
but have been coming up dry. The only one I've seen to date is
O'Reilly's but hasn't been updated or continued. I've gotten CFMX

Please help me out,
I'm being forced to use a third party javascript component that leaves
the result of multiple select input field , the name of the input
field contains brackets as in "mySelect[]"

I'm trying to use <cfcontent> and <cfinclude> to return a.gif image, but the
returned image seemes to be "destroyed" :-)
main.cfm
. . .

Please excuse this posting if I confused this group with another.
I'm assisting some people with an existing site that they want to
store files on a drive that is mapped (on a Windows 2000 advanced
server).  The tag being used is CFFILE to upload the file (sometime

I have this cf script below that works perfectly i.e. the screen is painted
successfully, the javascript executes successfully, and a new window opens
when I press 'click me' when I call it up using the url in the browser.
But when I "POST" to it from another script the javascript ...

We rebuilt our site www.ohsuhealth.com in coldfusion two months ago
and the site traffic has seemingly dropped sharply. The client is
quite concerned and we're not sure what to tell them. We are using the
same softare (WebTrends) to analyize the logs. Does anyone have any

I have a query that retrieves variable length varchar fields and writes them
out to a forms textarea element. I need them to formatted so each field has
a break after it. If I write it out to a plain webpage it works fine like
this:

Hi, I'm new to this group and I have a broad question concerning Coldfusion.
The department at the university that I have just started working for uses
Coldfusion w/ an Access database for all their content. They are wondering if
they should stick with this model for updating ...

I'm building a shopping cart, and I need some opinions or suggestions
here.
If you have a certain quantity of each product, would you decrement the
quantity in the database immediately after the payment is done (i.e. the

I'm trying to dynamically populate a select list but it's only
displaying the first item in the table.  Here's my query:
<cfquery name="readstatus" datasource="esidb1">
select status, name

Guys, can anyone confirm this mis-behaviour of ColdFusion MX 6.1 in Linux?
I wrote a component, which makes use of the ExpandPath function.
Scenario:
- Mapping in CF Admin called "mappeddir" with is "/var/www/mymappeddir".