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I just installed Coldfusion 11 on a new Windows 7 build. Additionally installed the latest version of WAMP (to develop my databases).I created a datasource, and used MySQL5 for my driver.  When i try to connect my database (created in WAMP) i get the following error: Connection verification failed for data source: myTestdb java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver available for myTestdb, please check the driver setting in resources file, error: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver available for myTestdb, please check the driver setting in resources file, error: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.  Any suggestions?I searched the web, and all the solutions are extremely confusing.  Does anyone have a straight forward solution?

I had a problem when I view a graph, for example <cfchartdata item="#Depart_Name#" value="#Salary#">. if depart_name to long the name did not be display. how can i DISPLAY Depart_Name in vertical?anyone?

Is there a good/active ColdFusion Discord channel?  

I am trying to get data from a coldfusion api but on hitting the api I get this error message:"Message": "Datasource '' could not be found." I have subscribed to the api and have a default application setup which can produce application/json response. The authentication used is apikey which i am using for the app that I have subscribed to and everything seems to be setup fine. Below are details for the request when i try out the api. Can someone please suggest what could be the problem.   Request Details:URL : [url]Method : GETAccept : application/jsonCache-Control : no-cacheIf-Modified-Since : 0Pragma : no-cacheParams :api_key : [api_key]client_key : [client_key] Response Details:Status : 500content-length : 47content-type : application/json;charset=UTF-8 Response Body:{"Message": "Datasource '' could not be found."}

Ok, building a web site that, once loaded, does not select objects based on URL, instead we have one huge <div id=""></div>When button is clicked, javascript function loads an AJAX function and sends it an "object ID". <cfsavecontent>constructs all the data.  Returns it to the Javascript and we then object_detail.innerHTML=xxx and put it to the screen. Then perform a JQuery slideDown ... ALL WORKS WELL.  Until we want to Google Maps.  Or a new widget we want(ed)  to add; a weather widget to provide us with the weather in that object. I also created on a simple .cfm splash page and put the same script into that. Works perfectly. Script looks like:<a class="weatherwidget-io" href="https://forecast7.com/en/48d862d35/paris/" data-label_1="PARIS" data-label_2="WEATHER" data-theme="original" >PARIS WEATHER</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementBy

Hola!I hope all is well. I'm running into an issue in a ColdFusion (CF) app and I was hoping someone could help. I took over an app that someone else wrote that's running ColdFusion v11,0,19,314546; IIS v10.0.14393.0; Windows 2016 Server. I know, I know. A little old school. But that's what I gotta work with. The CF app works. It has been in Production for years. Decades, actually! So I know the code works. I'm in the process of moving the app from Apache Tomcat to IIS. And that's where I'm running into problems. I'm new to ColdFusion so please excuse my description, but this CF app is made up of ColdFusion scripts that are "hosted" in SharePoint Online (SPO) pages. In other words, the app consists of a number of SharePoint Onlne webpages.  Each SPO webpage is made up of webparts. These webparts are ColdFusion scripts that execute when the SPO pages load. Every time a SPO page loads, the application.cfm is called which grabs the user's identify from the SPO pag

Hello,I now coldfusion 8 is old but can i install it on windows 10 Thanks

I installed CF2016U14, then updated the connector, then verified server.xml and workers.properites had the shared secret, then verified the updates was installed in CF Administrator, and finally verified the sites were up and running. A few minutes later, some of the sites went down.  Looking on the server, the CF 2016 service just stops running.  Accessing the site gives: The service is unavailable.Service Temporarily Unavailable!The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.Tomcat/ISAPI/isapi_redirector/1.2.46 This is happening on severla of our 5 servers (at least 3 so far). Has anyone encountered this?

As the titles states, when I attempt to run the migration wizard, it fails to migrate the runtime portion of CF 11.  I'm following the CF 2018 Migration .pdf provided by Adobe and have performed the pre-install step of shutting down the CF 11 Application server process before installing. I want to note that there are also several other services related to CF11 that I also shut down. (.NET, Add-on, ODBC agent and ODBC server) Should these stay running to assist with the migration? The guide was vague. I am running a self-contained server installation, production profile. Default options throughout the installer process. Here is the output from migration.log within the CF2018 \cfusion\logs\ "Severity","ThreadID","Date","Time","Application","Message""Information","http-nio-8500-exec-4","03/30/20","10:13:50","","C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\logs\migration.log initialized""Information","http-nio-8500-exec-4","03/30/20","10:13:50","CFADMIN"," Note: Value for Max Pooled

Hi there,I have a table with a field name called currency.  Currency is a keyword and normally I have to delimit the field name in a query, eg update table set [currency] = 'USD' When I use cfinsert with the currency field, I get query syntax error.  I wonder if I there is a way I can tell cfinsert to delimit the field? Right now, I just left the currecy field out of cfinsert and run another update afterwards. I am using CF18 Thanks

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 8 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 14   The following are links to the tech notes for each update: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 8 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 14   These updates fix security vulnerabilities that are mentioned in the security bulletin,  APSB20-16.   The Docker images for these updates are also available.   Please update your ColdFusion versions today. Let us know if you face any issues while installing the updates. Your feedback is essential to further enhancing the product.   We thank you for your continuing support.

As a user of my web site drives around, her latitude/longitude changes. I would like for her to be able to click a button and have her current coordinates (which are captured through JS in a geoLocation script) passed to the query below through a form as #userLat# and #userLon#. The resultset would be displayed in a new cfml template. If I have to use the JS variables within one of the JS scopes, can I create the form using javascript and pass the variables to the query that way? Perhaps the question is as simple as, can a javascript variable be made available for use in a cfml template? And, if so, how? Sounds simple to some, I'm sure, but I've had only cursory dealings with javascript and none with Ajax. I'm hoping for a conceptual overview that can lead me to focused self-education. Your advice is welcome.~John ========================SELECT MID, AptName, round(calc_dist,2) AS DistanceFROM (     SELECT MID, AptName, sqrt(power((#userLat# - lat),2)&

I've recently inherited a Coldfusion 2018 instance. I was provided a clone of the production server which I have running as a VM on an external drive. It's also up on AWS so that others on my team can access it remotely. I can access the CF adminitrator app just fine from the local VM at the typical address (http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm). However, on the AWS VM (which is theoretically identical), I get the default CF 500 error screen at that same address. Not seeing any errors logged, so I'm not sure what is causing it. Has anyone else run into a similar issue? I'm at a loss for how to troubleshoot without any detailed errors.

Ok, I am trying to make a PDF file ... At the end of a <cfsavecontent> within a function within a ajax .cfc template ... I added <cffileaction = "write"file = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webstuff\coldfusion\images\pdffile.html"output = "#invoice#">That worked fine. Then I added ... <cfhtmltopdf>source = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webstuff\coldfusion\images\pdffile.html"destination = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webstuff\coldfusion\images\pdffile.pdf"</cfhtmltopdf>The moment I run it I get a parse JSON error.  It's hosing on the cfhtmltopdf tag. I know I do not yet have a other parameters ... but what am I doing wrong to cause the JSON error? 

Recently, I have become aware of Ghostcat as a vulnerability in the Tomcat AJP protocol can be exploited to read file contents and access source code and configuration files. If the servers allow file uploads, the flaw can also be exploited to remotely execute code. Dubbed GhostCat because is has existed in Tomcat for more than a decade, the vulnerability affects Tomcat versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x. Apache Tomcat has released versions 9.0.31, 8.5.51, and 7.0.100 to address the issue. Since Tomcat is embedded in ColdFusion Server, is there a plan for patching ColdFusion to account for this issue?  Is there a way to mitigate the problem until such a patch is implemented?  Is there a way to patch the Tomcat on the Server without a ColdFusion patch?   My company is currently running ColdFusion 2016.   Thank you for any suggestions you might have.

I tried to log in in Bullhorn but this error keeps on appearing.Invalid data for CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_INTEGER.The error occurred in C:\jrun4\servers\Bullhorn_1\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfusion\CustomTags\BullhornPro\Tools\BHGetClientstore.cfm: line 53  

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Hello All,I am new to Adobe LiveCycle. I  need to  assemble the converted pdf files using assembler service.  I got the assembled pdf  with table of contents like below TOCHello Text ..... 3Sample Text ....5Sample PDF ... 8But i need the TOC  with number listing format TOC1. Hello Text ..... 32. Sample Text ....53. Sample PDF ... 8 Could anyone please help me on this?RegardsBagya

Hi,We are currently migrating an old CF10 server to CF2018; theres been very few problems.  A lot of the pages have the ability to export their views to xls.  When the system gets to the SpreadSheetWrite() call, a java runtime reflection exception is thrown:java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException It seems like java is throwing the error in such a way that CF isnt able to resume so my catch never gets triggered, so I cant get any additional information.  Haven't been able to figure out a way to catch and unwind the java error and the CF logs don't seem to have anything in them.I've tried the traditional CF catch "any" and I've tried catching "java.lang.Exception", but processing seems to end the moment SpreadSheetWrite() is called. I've also dumped the spreadsheet object prior to the write call, it appears to be properly formed in memory. I tried the same function on multiple sites within the server, they are all exhibiting the same behavior. Does anyon

How long should it take to install the lockdown tool? I have 4 websites in IIS and it has been stuck at 100% for an hour. Installing… Change permissions of IIS website: The log stopped populating and the cpu under task manger is at zero.

Hi,We have migrated from Coldfusion 10 to 2018. In the windows services I see Coldfusion 10 services and Coldfuision 2018 services running. When I stop the CF 10 services and just run the CF 2018 services the coldfusion administrator url does not work. When I run the CF 10 services the CF administration works. Do I need to run the CF 10 services? How do I make the CF administration work? Thanks.        

Hello all, QQ, with each CF Hotfix, there is also the PM hotfix.jar file that is bundled.  I see the date modified on the bundled hotfix.jar falls in date/time range for the update.  For example in hotfix 8, the PMT-hotfix\hotfix.jar has a modified date of 3/13/2020.  However, when I run the jar, the wizard notes its for PMT Update 1.   Thus, what is up and should the PMT hotfix be run as well?  If not, perhaps it should not be bundled with the CF HF 8? please advise. Bill

I just saw that CF11 is being unsupported at the end of this month.  Two tags that I see I need to replace with going to CF2018 are cftree and cfmenu.  Can someone point me to where I can find replacements for these?  thanks,Ronnie

In the installation documentation there is reference to installing CF on Unix (Other) by using ColdFusion_2018_WWEJ_java.jar but I can't seem to find that installer file.

I am helping a client update their existing ColdFusion 8 server environment to ColdFusion 2018. They currently run many (hundreds) of websites through a single instance of ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition on Windows Server. Is this model still supported by ColdFusion 2018 Standard Edition, or does this require an Enterprise Edition license to do so? Aside from all of the obvious changes to code required to make the upgrade (there will be a development and staging environment setup to test everything before the new servers go live), the client is worried that the license for Standard Edition may not cover their specific use case any longer. Can someone shed some light? I cannot find the answer here nor through the official license documentation. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting it, but it doesn't appear to touch on this specific use case.