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October 7, 2007
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HomeSite help pages for CF8 practically useless

  • October 7, 2007
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The CF8 help files included in the "ColdFusion 8 Update for HomeSite+" are so meagre they are practically useless. take, for example, the page on the parsedatetime function. Here is what the help files say:

Description
Parses a date/time string according to the English (U.S.) locale conventions. (To format a date/time string for other locales, use the LSParseDateTime function.)

Returns
A date/time object

Function syntax
ParseDateTime(date/time-string [, pop-conversion ] )


Compare that with the actual CF8 help page for parsedatetime. You will find that the page for Homesite is very meagre indeed.

I remember we even got the CF8 help files for Homesite only after a lot of pleas in these forums and elsewhere. Someone at Adobe is not doing their job properly.

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    Participant
    June 5, 2009

    If someone still needs it....

    http://www.kenreiss.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/18/Installing-ColdFusion-8-Help-Files-into-Homesite

    Inspiring
    October 8, 2007
    if it's any consolation, it is same with DW help...

    compared to the built-in help you had for CFMX7, the CF8 help is
    non-existent...
    for CFMX7 you had descriptions/help even for each ATTRIBUTE of a
    tag/function!

    and there are errors in CF8 DW help, too, like misspelled attribute
    names in the pop-up hints/tip, which cause cf compile errors!

    and that is so strange, considering LiveDocs have full help content... i
    am sure it can be very easily converted into built-in HS/DW help....


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    Azadi Saryev
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