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September 23, 2009
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Generate ORM CFC menu choice missing

  • September 23, 2009
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CF9 CFB1

As described in the video, this will generate a bunch of code for me.  However, it doesn't appear in my installation of CF9 where it is supposed to be.

Has this menu item been moved?  Where can I get it?

Thanks in advance.

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BKBK
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September 27, 2009

I think you should look for it in the Coldfusion Builder instead.

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September 27, 2009

I've gotta be careful about my acronyms... yes, I was looking in ColdFusionBuilder 1 (Which runs on top of CF9), right where the video shows it's supposed to be (under the right click on a table or field under a datasource.  I've installed it according to the video.

BKBK
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September 28, 2009

You have to install the extension in Coldfusion Builder. Here are the steps to install a Coldfusion Builder Extension.

Install extensions
1 In ColdFusion Builder, select Window > Preferences.
2 In the tree-view, select ColdFusion > Extensions.
3 Select the Archive file to install.
Note: If the extension that you are installing is shipped with ColdFusion Builder, the Archive file is available in the Extensions directory within the ColdFusion Builder installation.
4 Click Install.
5 The Extension Install wizard guides you through the installation.
6 Select the Server. If no server is configured, click Add Server to add a new server.
7 Enter the path to the ColdFusion web root (if the path is not automatically populated when selecting the server). For example, C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\
8 Select a folder within the web root to install the extension. The archive file is extracted to the install location.
9 Click Install.
10 The name of the installed extension appears under Installed Extensions.
To view details about the installed extension, select the extension and click Show Details. If you have installed the same extension on more than one server, you can make one of the servers active. To make a server active, select the server from the Active Server drop-down list.

Import extensions
You can import extensions from an existing directory into the ColdFusion Builder IDE. It is useful to import extensions when you use existing extensions to develop new extensions.
1 In ColdFusion Builder, select Window > Preferences.
2 In the tree-view, select ColdFusion > Extensions, and click Import.
3 Select the ColdFusion Builder extension to import.

Reload extensions
If you change the configuration file after installing an extension, you must reload the extension to reflect these changes. To reload an extension, do the following:
1 In ColdFusion Builder, select Window > Preferences.
2 In the Preferences dialog box, you see a tree-view structure on the left side.
3 In the tree-view structure, select ColdFusion > Extensions, and click Reload Extensions.

Then open the RDS Dataview, navigate to the database table, right-click on it and there you are. If it doesn't work the first time around, restart Coldfusion Builder.and try again.