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Cfdocs in Coldfusion 10 missing?

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
October 8, 2012
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I have recently installed CF10 and found that the local copy of the documentation is nowhere to be found. It's still an installation option when you install CF, but I cannot find the folder cfdocs anywhere. I looked in all the usual places, even did a drive search to no avail.

I have since installed ColdFusion 10 in a Mac, Linux and now Windows and none of them have the documenation locally, though all installers showed ColdFusion Documentation as an installable option.

Am I missing something? If it is no longer available, so be it, but why then is there an option during installation to install it? I would dearly like to get it back as I relied on that on a constant basis.

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BrettPR

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I'm guessing that this has not been addressed by Adobe? They are sticking by their "use the PDF docs" statement?

What a farse!

I guess it is because Adobe is a document company rather than a web company?

Bah humbug!

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Adam Cameron.

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"farse" is a rather pleasing & poignant mash-up of "farce" and "arse". And it made me smile :-)

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AlbusTeck

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Updates in Bug Status:

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Local documentation is no longer available as part of the installation. You can access the documentation online at http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion.html.

You can view/download the ColdFusion 10 CFML Reference guide as a PDF from http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/CFMLRef/coldfusion_10_cfmlref.pdf

However regarding the option in the installer, don't have any updates yet.

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dlanghAuthor

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I really hope Adobe reconsiders this. The online help is fine and certainly has it's place, but generally the search functionality is less than ideal. For one I always have to remember to limit my searches to the section I am in (small checkbox next to search field). Online search also then limits itself to THAT section only, not the general CF 10 documentation, which the local CF9 did.

If I don't check the box, then more often than not I get results for CF 9 documentation and seemingly NEVER cf10, even though I searched FROM the online CF10 documentation. This is easily seen by going here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/CFMLRef/index.html Then do NOT check "This reference Only" and based on what you search for you will get:

1. cfquery - multiple references to CF9 documentation, even 1 for MX 6.1, but NOTHING for CF 10 on the first page of results. This is not good needless to say.

2. ListGetAll - this is even worse, I get results like "Barack Obama Speec tonight"??? but nothing that references any CF version documentation. I might add that having been IN CF documentation, Adobe did actually append "Coldfusion" to my search, so I have no idea why a result about Barack Obama would have a higher hit than the CF 10 function reference, which doesn't even show up anywhere.

3. I challenge you to search for any CF tag or function, if you don't drill into the section you want and limit search to that section, the results are pretty much worthless if your using CF 10, and sometimes worthless for any CF version

Basically to put it nicely, online search doesn't work and is broken in my opinion, so right now I really have no good mechanism to use CF documentation, so PLEASE consider bringing local docs back where it will properly search only within it's own confines. At the very least someone should in addition take a hard look at the online search within Adobe help, because it needs help badly.

It seems to me the local docs would have been easy to continue, the functionality didn't need to change, just the content, would very mich like to see a change with regard to this.

Sincerely,

Don Langhorne

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Adam Cameron.

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This is all easily solved, Don. Don't use their search to search the docs, use Google. It works much better. Just bookmark this:
https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhelp.adobe.com%2Fen_US%2FColdFusion%2F10.0%2F

Then browse to it and add your search string to the search box. It's a million times better than Adobe's own search of its own information.

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Adam Cameron.

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I just de-installed / re-installed on Win Vista 64-bit, and can confirm I'm seeing (or not seeing, as is the case here! ;-) the same as you: not CFDOCS to be found anywhere.

Do you wanna raise a bug: https://bugbase.adobe.com/

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