Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / February 2006

Is there a way that Cold Fusion can automate processes ? In particular, file
imports. I will be receiving either an Excel or txt file and I need to import
the data into an Access database. For testing purposes, the file came across as
txt and I converted it to Excel then imported ...

I am going thru an index loop (count is the variable) ... all is fine... but
some form items don't exist (varied reasons) so the loop will sometimes
encounter a non existing var. so I tried to test  with --IsDefined-- but it
says error -  that the  var can't be found - which I ...

Here is an issue that we ran into today.  Not that much of an issue
since the workaround is simple enough.
But has anyone ever run into problems with using cfquery within a
cfsavecontent tag.

Hello, I am a relative CF and newbie who hasn't worked on my app in over 6
months.  So forgive me if I am not clear.  At anyrate, I have a form where
users can update information for a grant record.  One of the fields the user
can update is departments.  One grant record could ...

Folks, I have already run a few searches but have found nothing. What is the
most efficient way to create and HTML page and links associated with a file
directory listing. If I have a file directory, I want to create and HTML page
and create links to each file in the listing. Can ...

Looking for other's thoughts on this or maybe someone knows some inside detail.
We've had a lot of issues trying to use CFDocument to create PDFs, and looking
over many of the posts on these forums, we're not the only ones.  Some problems
we simply could not overcome so we ...

Hi everyone.  I'm hoping you guys can help.  i'm trying to pull some data out
of a table.  However, the data entered in the form needs to match the data that
is in the table exactly.  I know how to do it with two fields (like first name
and last name), but this time i need to ...

Im running a VPS server on plesk/virtuozzo.. and it doesnt support CFML 7 and
the moment.. Is it possible to purchase cfml 7, install 6.1 and run 6.1 until 7
is supported... and then reinstall 7 when it is supported.. as would like to
only purchase 7, dont have the money to ...

Hi there, i would like to do a calculation in my application, as shown in the
following:
Recordset 1 is a totals Recordset (pulling data from DB.table1), and it gives
me the figure of ?xxx

I have a query that pulls back a single column result.
I would like to do some quick searches against the query results
to see if a record id is in the result...
It would be ideal if I could convert the query result into a list and

I have a list:
<cfset filespace_names = "{OTHER}|'ASR'|'SYSTEM STATE','SYSTEM OBJECT','SYSTEM
SERVICES'">
And use it something like that:

We created a collection "test_collection" in the administrator.
We are getting the following error "The server encountered an internal error
and was unable to complete your request. "
while indexing a collection.

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Hi,
I have this function in my "search.cfc" file:
                   <cffunction name="TableList" access="public">
        <cfargument name="colName" required="yes">

I am fairly inexperienced but need to figure out how to do something with
the records returned by a query (Previous 1 2 3 4 Next). I tried doing a
Google search, but wasn't sure what to call it. I thought I had it figured
out, but it isn't working when I try to navigate from page ...