ColdFusion

Hello fellow CFers,The Stack Overflow 2019 survey was just launched. Each year they ask developers to share information about their jobs and what languages they develop in.  it would be great if the ColdFusion/Lucee community would participate and let them know you're an active CFML developer.Here's the link to the survey:2019 Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey

I am in need of a good “dynamic form builder” that integrates well with ColdFusion 2016/2018. Any suggestions?

I was looking for a source/reference to help me implement our own event gateway type. I could not find out an example on the internet for the same.Can someone please help me on this with step-by-step details. Also, I would like to know, in which scenario we should go for a custom event gateway type.Thanks,

i have some code which reads a datetime field from an sql database and then formats it using lsparsedatetime.this has worked for years under previous CF versions and produces{ts '2018-01-11 08:00:00'} when passed2018-01-11 08:00:00.0read from SQL database.when passing this in CF2018 it refuses to format it but produces no error just the original 2018-01-11 08:00:00.0i have set <cfset loc = setlocale("English (UK)")>  on both machinesaccording to my hosting company the date/time settings are the same on both servers though the old server is running older versions of windows/iis/sql serverbut as the db date is the same when retrieved from both databases i can only assume CF is the issue?any help greatly appreciated

Good afternoon everyone Here is coldfusion9 company and want to use the 2018 version. Our file is application.cfm yet. Code in coldfusion 9 is compatible with the 2018 version ?? Thanks

Is it possible to pass a value to a datefield cfinput?I have an edit form that is auto filled from a database - I can fill text fields by passing value to them.  I tried value and default in the type="datefield" and it doesn't seem to work.<cfset ThisDate= "2016/01/20"><cfform id="Add" name="Add" method="post" action="UpdateDonation.cfm" >     <cfinput name="test" type="text" value="#ThisDate#"> <--- Works but no date picker     <cfinput name="test" type="text" mask="yyyy/mm/dd" default="#ThisDate#"> <--- date picker, but no date prefilled     <cfinput name="test" type="datefield" mask="yyyy/mm/dd" default="#ThisDate#"> <---- Gives error</cfform>    What am I doing wrong?Thanks!

Good afternoon. One more doubt. I have a server with 4 cores and I want to buy ColdFusion 2018 Standard.Will I have to buy 02 licenses?

I inherited some order entry websites that have worked seemingly flawlessly for the past 3 years. Today I learned that 3 files didn't get sent to a customer last week, and I can confirm these files they should have gotten were never created on the server. However, I can find no entry in any of the log files (C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\logs) that would indicate what the issue was. I would have expected some kind of exception to occur if a file could not be created or is that not that case? This part of the code does not contain any cftry / cfcatch blocks. I'll include the relevant parts here:<cfset OrderPath = #GetTempDirectory()#>  <cfset DateTime = DateFormat(now(),"yyyymmdd") & "_" & TimeFormat(now(),"hhmmssllll")><cfset OrderFileName = ("WB" & "_" & #DateTime# & ".ORD")><!--- Check if order file exists - if so, delete it ---><cfif FileExists(#GetTempDirectory()#&#OrderFileName#)>     <cffile action="delete" fi

Here is the link for a really important survey for us here at Adobe. Your responses will help determine some of the potential future directions of the product.This survey is one among the series of future direction surveys posted by us. Irrespective of your participation in the previous ones, we need you to participate in this survey. Although not mandatory, it will be very useful if you can leave your contact information in the survey response for us to follow up with you.Here is the survey link again.Thank you for your time.

We have some positive news to share. Here is a blog post that addresses the concerns some of you may have regarding the Oracle Java policy change.Oracle Java support for Adobe ColdFusion - ColdFusion

Hello,  I am using Adobe ColdFusion (2018 Release). When I run a page containing a Crystal Report, the page appears blank, Crystal Reports (SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for 32 bit and 64 bit are both installed).Can someone please help me in resolving this issue ?ThanksIQAdobe ColdFusion (2018 Release)Developer

We are getting the below error intermittently in Coldfusion 2016 error handler where REST service is used.I would like to know if this issue is due to network connectivity or SQL Server connectivity of max connection exceeded issue with ColdFusion REST Service.Error Occured At : UserValidation REST Service [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]A problem occurred when attempting to contact the server (Server returned: Connection reset). Please ensure that the server parameters passed to the driver are correct and that the server is running. Also ensure that the maximum number of connections have not been exceeded for this server.I am not a ColdFusion expert. I would like your help to identify the root cause of this issue. Please Help.

I have a query that returns results like thisRow 1 -C,HU,NU,PO, CY, CABRow 2 - A,AB,AB,ABC,TY,GYU  So I need to combine these results into one string and then see if the string 'CAB' is in the new combined string.If it is, then output YesHow do I do this easily?

I recently installed Coldfusion 2018 Dev locally (to replace 2016) and everything seems to be working fine, except the Connectors section of the Performance Monitor doesn't show any data.I am not sure why and I cannot find the documentation to describe how anything needs to be configured for that data to show up.

HiWe're running ColdFusion 2018 Standard with Update 1 installed on a Windows 2016 server.When sending emails using <cfmail> we have two issues...1) We fire email frequently, but not heavily. Maybe 100-150 email per hour during the working hours. These emails are backing up in the /cfusion/mail/spool folder and clearing very slowly. Each one takes approx 6-10 seconds to fire, but it does fire successfully.2) In the Administrator > Server Settings > Mail > Maintain connection to mail server is not checked. When checking the box and submitting the form, the Administrator does not update this checkbox to stay on. When looking at the cfusion/lib/neo-mail.xml file this value selected as true.<var name="maintainconnections"><boolean value="true"/></var>Does this imply there's a glitch with the administrator?Has anyone any suggestions to help?Kind regards, Stuart

I am having a problem uploading multiple files at the same time. The site we are building is a catalog of sorts, and each item may have anywhere from 1-20 images.For this discussion, let's say we're uploading three imagesThe input on the form creates three cffile tags in the form, named img1, img2, img3. Those are working.After inputting the form, I see three distinct temp files. However, when the <cffile> tag runs, it only uploads the first file. Three times.I created output that would show all of the variables, and the output shows the three distinct images, but then <cffile> runs and all of the server variables are correct for the first image, but shown three times.Now, these file names also have to be written to a database, so I have to write the actual file name to the table, with time and date appended on it so that the file names are truly unique. Everything is working for the first file, it's the second and third that are the issue.The code that generates the input

Hi I'm planning to setup a highly available and scalable ColdFusion server on AWS. If I purchase a single ColdFusion Enterprise licence, can I install it on multiple EC2 instances? These can be fail over clusters or auto scaling groups.

I have a database of vehicles that have zip codes associated with them.I want to allow the user to do a search, i.e. Within 40 miles of zip code 19606.  An API will be queried, I will match results to my database and display the vehicles by distance from 19606.More deeply, although you probably have better ideas, this will send the distance and zip parameters via an API and return all zip codes and distance from the initial zip code.   I will then take these zip codes and query my local database to get zip code results and sort them by distance from the initial zip code.Alternatively I have searched and have seen people use their existing zip codes and adding lat/long data and then using some magic (ok some formula) figuring out which zip codes are within the radius and how far they each are from the original zip code.I have searched and most of the questions relating to this topic are rather old so I'm open to any and all ideas.Cheers!

Greetings, We've been struggling with this for a few days so I thought I'd seek some help. We are continually receiving the following error, causing the lockdown tool to rollback all its settings: "Failed to change the logon users for ColdFusion services!"Has anyone else seen this?Thanks,Henry

We are trying to execute a REST API call (particulary GET) using CFHTTP tag as below : <cfhttp     url="https://reqres.in/api/users/2"     method="GET"     result="remoteCallResult" >            <cfhttpparam type="header" name="accept-encoding" value="*" />                 <cfhttpparam type="header" name="TE" value="deflate;q=0" /></cfhttp><cfdump var="#remoteCallResult#">The URL "https://reqres.in/api/users/2 " is a public url and it responds with below content :{"data":{"id":2,"first_name":"Janet","last_name":"Weaver","avatar":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/josephstein/128.jpg"}}When CFHTTP tag is being used, I consistently see below error on my webpage :Above issue persists, even after installing the certificate from "reqres.in" into cacerts of JAVA_HOME.Can you pl

Hi Team,Can i set auto scaling for ColdFusion application hosted on PaaS (Azure /GCP). Will the single license purchased work while the server is auto scaled in cloudIs the above possible on cloud.RegardsAshwath Shetty

Can anyone explain why I cannot find a link to the 2016 version of cf server or developer edition for 2016 anywhere on the adobe site including this forum?  Is anyone else concerned about using 2018 dev edition and not having true compatibility for clients that I am developing code for 2016 server base?  Please help adobe update these links on the downloads page here - >> Adobe - ColdFusion Support Center : More Downloads and can someone please give me the direct download link for 2016 developer edition.Thanks!

I have a simple question regarding how I build an application using ColdFusion Reporting Service. I have an application that setup to pull individuals certificates, badges, and confirmation letters. One of things I have done is created a *.cfm form that generates a stored procedure in the database when a specific individuals certificates, badge, and confirmation letter is pulled. After the stored procedure is created the *.cfr is call and the stored procedure is executed.I am using CF-9 to do this which I know is past end of life.I have been told this is an antiquated method of do this by an individual that has only used PHP and WordPress and never used a ColdFusion Reporting Service or SQL Server Reporting Service for that matter.Is there a better way of creating reports such as this?

I am trying to figure out how to reference a 2nd level key within a structure for the purpose of hiding it within a CFDUMP.  If I just CFOUTPUT it, I can use one of these references and the value outputs perfectly:- #test.level1.level2#- #test["level1"]["level2"]#But if I don't want CFDUMP to output test.level1.level2, I can't get it to work (e.g. hide='what?').  I've tried these permutations, with no success.- level1.level2- test.level1.level2- level1["level2"]- test["level1"]["level2"]Any ideas?  Thanks.

I've successfully created/registered a rest service, but I'm having trouble keeping it alive. I can understand that a change in code needs a refresh of the service (in administrator or restinitapplication), but the following situations also break a service"clear template cache" button in administratorrestart of serverAnd the only way to handle this, is to write a scheduled task which polls the service and calls restinitapplication when it does not respond.Even if I set the scheduled task to run every 5 minutes, it's still possible that the service is totally unavailable for 4+ minutes. Other frameworks like Taffy does not have this problem.Why should i opt for REST if SOAP works many times better? Or am I missing something?