cfgrid, bind with additional arguments?

Quote from http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/14/Coldfusion-8s-CFGRID , said by Gary Gilbert:

In order to do that you would bind the grid to the onchange event of the  cfselect.  To do that you would change the bind expression on your  grid.
<cfselect name="myselect" bind="cfc:mycfc.getSelectData()"  bindonload="true">
<cfgrid .....  bind="cfc:mycfc.getGridData({cfgridpage},{cfgridpagesize},{cfgridsortcolumn},{cfgridsortdirection},{myselect})"

Quote from http://cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm/2007/8/9/Filtering-Records-In-An-Ajax-Grid , by Todd Sharp

<cfgrid 
    format="html"
    name="artGrid"
    pagesize="5"
    sort="true"
    bind="cfc:art.getArt({cfgridpage},{cfgridpagesize},{cfgridsortcolumn},{cfgridsortdirection}, getSearchString())">

<script>
getSearchString = function(){
    var s =  ColdFusion.getElementValue('searchString');
    return s;
}
</script>

The above examples explain you how you cannot just write anything between the curly brackets - it's gotta be a DOM object name, not some ColdFusion variable value.

Not having tried cfgrid filtering myself lately, I'd try first a simpler example, like

bind="cfc:art.getArt({cfgridpage},{cfgridpagesize},{cfgridsortcolumn},{cfgridsortdirection}, '#dateformat(now(),'m/d/yyyy')#'"

That'll pass your CFC the date in Month/Day/Year format (note the single quotes!). Then your make your back end filter the data which will be returned.

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