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‎Nov 02, 2020
12:17 PM
I think I've finally come to the conclusion that these forums are complete bovine scatology. I'm sick and tired of the "type the code we sent you here" bs. I decided to come back, even though this platform is completely worthless, and I get this. I'm removing all bookmarks to any Adobe forum. I'll find my ColdFusion support somewhere else. Somewhere decent.
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‎Oct 16, 2020
08:24 AM
Great to hear that many of us get back the ability to edit posts. Now to work on deleting our own posts. On top of that, even though I've been logging on to this forum from the same computer since 2015, I now get the "We'll email you a code to prove you are who you say you are." The hits just keep on coming. When someone fixes this, email me. Until then, I'm done.. again. The frustration just never ends.
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‎Sep 28, 2020
09:07 AM
1 Upvote
Unfortunately, the list of contributors who are fleeing en masse will now include me. If/when the ability of the user to edit messages returns, then I would appreciate someone from the Adobe staff contacting me via email to let me know. In the meantime, I'm out. Not coming back until then. Be well, stay safe. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 16, 2020
08:45 AM
According to the help page for cfprogressbar: "If you use a bind expression, the called function takes no parameters, and must return a structure with two values"
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‎Sep 16, 2020
08:16 AM
1 Upvote
So you're saying that the decision to remove editing messages wasn't Adobe's, it was the decision of the people that Adobe is RENTING THIS PLATFORM FROM? Adobe has NO SAY in how their platform is being run??? I've complained to Adobe, before, about how they have all these products but never use any of them, themselves. The optics of a company not using their own software to create their forums should be raising red flags in everyone's mind. The fact that someone else gets to decide policy on this platform, alone, should be cause for concern. I'm done. If a company can't even control the most rudimentary aspects of their U2U tech support forum, I have completely and utterly lost the minute amount of respect that I had for Adobe. These forums should have been done in ColdFusion, by Adobe staff, not rented from a third-party that gets control over how things are run.
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‎Sep 16, 2020
05:23 AM
1 Upvote
Adobe,
I've hated this platform since day one. I even hate it more than I ever hated the Jive! platform. Taking away the user ability to edit messages that they post is not helping. As I've stated in another (related) thread, I'm seriously considering leaving and never coming back. The number of people with tons of experience in the ColdFusion forum has significantly dropped. Do you _really_ want to chase away more with this arbitrary decision?
Or, maybe I should just view this as another straw on the camel's back. Due to the pandemic, I had to back off trying to convince management to switch to Lucee. Think I'll double-down.
Bad decision after bad decision. It's a wonder Adobe is still in business.
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‎Sep 15, 2020
07:05 AM
Thank you for that information, Amebr. To whom do I direct my anger at, this time? The option to edit posts was present for all users for quite a while. This sudden and arbitrary decision to take that away from users is not a good one. I've been fed up with this platform since day one. I'm seriously contemplating never coming back. And another thing: I do not appreciate my thread being hijacked by Adobe and melded into this one. I don't care what the 'reasoning' is - leave the thread I started as it is, and let others chime in on that; don't confuse things for me by removing it and adding it to another thread. I'm so fed up with this. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 14, 2020
02:04 PM
Okay, Adobe. What's going on? I saw the thread about updates on 07 SEP 20, but ever since this morning I cannot edit messages I've typed. Click 'More', and a thin bar appears, which I assume to be the dialog that contains the link to edit, but the link cannot be seen or clicked. And I have Adobe Community Help bookmarked, but access is now DENIED. Why? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 14, 2020
08:48 AM
AFAIK, the method you're using for getting the JSON is what I've used. And it should be in the REQUESTBODY. Which is why I think it's the way it's being SENT is the issue. Perhaps this SO thread could provide some solution. HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 14, 2020
08:23 AM
Hello, ghanna1, I haven't worked much with JSON, but it seems to me that the issue isn't in how the JSON is received, but rather how it's sent. If the requestbody is empty, then whatever is sending the JSON would have an issue. At least, that's how I perceive it. Check whatever is sending the JSON. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 14, 2020
07:53 AM
I'm suddenly unable to edit my messages. In FF and Chrome. Anyhoo, I can answer my question. If the application.cfc has an onError function, that will trigger before the CATCH. Can't try it without the onError. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 14, 2020
07:31 AM
I'm curious, though. If the CFFUNCTION were placed within a CFTRY/CFCATCH, would that work? Or is that not canon? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 11, 2020
09:59 AM
So, I've been playing around. I created a CFC that will return a CFDUMP of the function called. test.cfc: <cffunction name="myTest1" access="remote" description="This is only a test to see what is returned." output="no" returnformat="plain" secureJSON="no">
<cfsavecontent variable="variables.thisStuff">
<cfdump var="#this.myTest1#" />
</cfsavecontent>
<cfreturn variables.thisStuff />
</cffunction> test.cfm: <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" id="testBtn" name="testBtn">Click Me</button>
<div id="testDiv"></div>
<script>
var testBtn = document.getElementById('testBtn'),
testDiv = document.getElementById('testDiv');
function testFunction(event,data){
testDiv.innerHTML = this.responseText;
}
testBtn.addEventListener('click',function(){
var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.addEventListener("load", testFunction);
oReq.open("GET", "test.cfc?method=myTest1");
oReq.send();
});
</script>
</body>
</html> This is what it returned: Notice that even though I used the attribute returnFormat, it's not listed. What happened here, Adobe? Shouldn't this have all attributes? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 11, 2020
08:39 AM
Actually, I just thought of something else. Whitelisting. In the CFC, near the top, use a switch/case that uses the valid formats, and set a default to JSON if nothing matches. Voila. Problem solved. <cfswitch expression="#arguments.returnFormat#">
<cfcase value="JSON,WDDX,XML,PLAIN" delimiters=",">
<!--- Do nothing; it's valid! --->
</cfcase>
<cfdefaultcase>
<!--- Someone is trying something they shouldn't be trying --->
<cfset arguments.returnFormat = "JSON" />
</cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch> HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 11, 2020
08:30 AM
I've never tried anything like that, myself; not a legacy app, nor a brand spanking new one. But I believe that CFLDAP would be in play, as that will access the Active Directory that the users exist in. As far as code changes, the only thing that would change, just off the top of my head, would be setting the variables that grant the roles, etc. Instead of being set by the result of a query, they would be set by whatever is returned in the CFLDAP results. But, then I'm not at all familiar with your legacy app.. this is an assumption. V/r, ^ _ ^ PS. Personally, just from a security standpoint, I would be using CFLDAP on every page load; that way, if a user is online using this app, and (for whatever reason) said user has a role taken away, then the change will be reflected in real time, not upon the next time the user logs on. Just my two cents.
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‎Sep 11, 2020
06:49 AM
Hello, and welcome to ColdFusion. I hope you enjoy working CF as much as I do. A CFTRY/CFCATCH could work well, and you can use the catch to return a simple error message to the user for display, and also use that to CFMAIL a CFDUMP of the error message (#cfcatch#) to yourself. At least that is how I would handle it. I'm sure there are others who can also provide some really good ideas. HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 10, 2020
08:15 AM
1 Upvote
Hello, Juan, I don't know how much help I can be with this, as I'm not using CF2018, but I'm going to give it the old college try. According to a blog entry by Charlie Arehart, CF2016 uses version 3.12 of the POI library (this is what allows CF to work with Excel and Word documents). According to Apache POI, the current version is 4.1.2. I've done some Googling, and cannot find what version of POI is in CF2018, but I'm going to guess that Adobe actually went with a newer POI library, and this _might_ explain why you are seeing this error in CF2018, but not in CF2016. I'm totally guessing, here. But if this is the case, then the overlapping cells might be a game changer. HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 08, 2020
02:16 PM
As someone who isn't _that_ familiar with Dw, I didn't think it was possible, but didn't want to just jump in with saying it couldn't be done. However, now I'm curious. Jon, how does one set up a webserver to process HTML pages as PHP? Does it have to be an Apache server? I'm assuming yes, as I don't think IIS can process PHP. Or, am I that far out of the loop? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 08, 2020
09:25 AM
A quick Google search found this: https://cfdocs.org/cfcontent Examples of both tag and script use cases. HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 08, 2020
08:38 AM
Hello, fox2, I believe that this link should be able to provide you with information related to using CFSCRIPT. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 08, 2020
06:38 AM
Well, while creating functions that are called from different areas is, indeed, more efficient than writing the same function over and over, there is a point where efficiency can overwhelm the application. And if said SQL functionality can be contained within a single SQL query, that would be much more efficient than several, separate SQL functions all focusing on the same goal. That being said, there are instances where what you are doing is the only way. For example, if the data needs to be aggregated from more than one DSN. If security is set properly, the tables accessed from one DSN cannot be accessed by another DSN. So, in this case calling queries and doing other processing inside of the iteration of a query object is the only option. But if you are working from just one DSN, then JOINS and other methods within SQL would be significanly faster and more efficient. And if you are working JOINS, then aliasing your tables and using said alias in front of each column name is paramount, if some tables have commonly named columns. I call it "pre-emptive disambiguation". HTH, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 04, 2020
01:43 PM
Hello, ghanna1, I think part of the problem is running a SELECT query, and including other .cfm files (which I assume are also doing some kind of data crunching), inside of a query iteration loop. I don't think cfflush will help with this. If you can write a JOIN query to get all of the information, and then use GROUPBY in your cfoutput, this might run a bit quicker. And are the includes really necessary? Could it be done another way? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 04, 2020
12:36 PM
Doggonnit.. someone removed my comment. There was nothing offensive about any of it. Why?
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‎Sep 03, 2020
01:12 PM
Thank you. Commented, and voted. Anyone else? V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 03, 2020
09:38 AM
Well, I think I know why it didn't work. But I found another way of doing it, that I will be using. <cfset thisFilePath = getCurrentTemplatePath() />
<cfset lastMod = DateFormat(GetFileInfo(thisFilePath).lastmodified,'mmmm dd, yyyy') /> I was hoping to do this in application.cfc, just the once. The above method has to be put on each page, but I'm okay with that. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 03, 2020
09:15 AM
Hello, Ed, According to Adobe Help, the "this" scope is for the user session. Life span, as a real number of days, of the user session, including all Session variables. Use the CFML CreateTimeSpan function to generate this variable's value. So, if the remote call creates a new session, then you should be limiting the session for just that remote call. This is not gospel, this is my best guess. V/r, ^ _ ^ UPDATE.. I may have read your question wrong. The current user session is making a remote call, not the other way around. So, yes, you'd be setting a timeout for that user's session.
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‎Sep 03, 2020
08:50 AM
Hello, all, I'm working on some legacy code, and the original developer was manually setting a "last modified" date on documents he worked on. I learned that there is a programmatic way of doing this, and I'm trying, but the value returned is 0. <!--- I got this from Pete Freitag's blog. --->
<cfset thisFile = CreateObject("java","java.io.File") />
<cfset thisFile.init("" & cgi.script_name & "") />
<cfset lastMod = thisFile.lastModified() />
<cfset lastMod = DateFormat(DateAdd('s',lastMod,"January 1 1970 00:00:00"),"mmmm dd, yyyy") /> Last mod is reporting as January 1, 1970, which means that it's 0. Please advise. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Sep 03, 2020
07:47 AM
1 Upvote
If you submit this feature request and post the link to it, here, I'll gladly vote for it. I imagine a few others might, as well. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Aug 31, 2020
06:46 AM
I hate to say it, but Task Manager > End Process might be your only option. If you can't Alt-Tab to it (it's not a program, it's a part of Dw) and minimizing doesn't work (same), I think killing it is the only option. V/r, ^ _ ^
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‎Aug 28, 2020
09:16 AM
No replies, so I went ahead and did what I didn't want to do. I edited the jquery.reveal.js file. Just changed the only .live() tag in the document from: $('a[data-reveal-id]').live('click', function(e) { To: $('[data-reveal-id]').on('click', 'a', function(e) { I loaded the page, and did not get any error messages. Still have anxieties, though. Keeping my fingers crossed that, somewhere down the road, this doesn't come back to bite me in the undercarriage. V/r, ^ _ ^
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