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My company's IT architects have mandiated that ColdFusion be phased out. Some of their reasoning comes from Forrester Research Inc. Does Adobe have any comments on the following? Has they spoken with Forrester Research about their views on ColdFusion?"[J.R.] asked Forrester, where is ColdFusion product life? Should it be a strategic product for our company? You can asked your experts if  should have ColdFusion apps is part of their critical solutions which are the most important to the company.Response to the above question is from John R. Rymer, VP & Principal Analyst of Forrester Research Inc.Forrester stopped doing research into ColdFusion several years ago, as it is no longer considered strategic by clients. To be sure, clients still have ColdFusion investments (the National Park Service, for example, is a big user), but these applications primarily run straightforward (non-transactional) Web sites, not strategic applications.In recent years, Adobe has driven ColdFusion

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So we installed CF 10 and things were going along fine, for awhile. The update component was working well until one day it did not work. When we log in we get the following message: "Error invoking CFC /ColdFusion10/cfusion/wwwroot/CFIDE/administrator/updates/download.cfc : Not Found [Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' to your URL parameters to see more information]" You can say OK but the updater will not work now. When you go to download and install the update the popup box warning you that the service will be started comes up but when you click on continue nothing happens! We tried to do a manual update of the update but that hosed the machine and we had to do a role back of the update. I spent a very hairy afternoon getting this back up and running! So the file, download.cfc, is there! I confirmed it and it appears to be ok. I even copied over the file from the test server, this is our production server, and it still did not see the file.  So the question is has anyone else

Hi,        I have not used CF in long time and need help with a simple query.I have an access DB table with 3 fields, name, date and numberWhat I want to is to create a query to pull all names between 2 datesWhen I query the date field, the results are showing in this formate 2013-07-12 00:00:00Here is my query<cfquery datasource="mydb" name="test">Select name from mytablewhere edate Between '2011-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2013-01-01 00:00:00'</cfquery><cfoutput query="test">#name#</cfoutput>What I get is this errorODBC Error Code = 22005 (Error in assignment) [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Data type mismatch in criteria expression.Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.Please let me know.Thanks

Any recommendations on how to read an Excel XLSX file (using CFSpreadsheet) that has a leading "#" in a cell?I checked and this bug was reported over 2 years ago:https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3043393(Please test and, if you encounter the problem, upvote to get this bug reopened.)The issue has been marked as "closed/withdrawn/cannot reproduce", but I am encountering the bug on the latest versions of both ColdFusion 9 & 10. It doesn't matter which format the column/cell is in. I've tried both "general" and "text".Here's simple spreadsheet sample data that will cause ColdFusion to throw an error:ReportNumber#1123#2324#2345In some cases, the column is non-essential and it'd be ok to identify the column & remove it from the spreadsheet, but this can't apparently be done without first successfully reading the spreadsheet.Are there any work arounds for this?  Thanks.

Hi,I am setting up the schedule task to run my cfm page.  I’d like this task to run on the last day of each month.  How can I accomplished this since each month is different, some have 30, or 31 or 28, 29 days…..?Thanks

Does anybody have an suggestions for a stepping off point to create a "drill down" type search navigation tool for ecommerce?  What I am looking for is when a user searches our website for "Red," they get search results with a list on the left side of ways to narrow their search.  It is pretty common on ecommerce sites but sadly, our site currently just searches through product descriptions using a sql query and displaying the results if there are any.  We have been looking at vendors but they are really expensive and I don't like giving 3rd parties too much control.For some reason, we do not have Verity installed or it is not installed correctly.  We are running CF 8 on Linux servers.  I have been looking into getting it installed but I am not sure if that will help my situation other than providing me with a better index search.I was hoping to modify an existing script or module so I don't have to lock myself away and try to code it from scratch. Thanks!

Im confusing about the step 2:Extract the JAR file and copy it to {ColdFusion-Home}/runtime/servers/lib (for Standalone installation) and {JRun-Home}/servers/lib (for Multiserver and J2EE installations).what is the exact location to install the Jar file on CF 9 multi server edition

Hi,,I am query from my table and want to save this query results into excel file in to specific location. 1.  Is there the way to overrite the file each time the page is run?2. when open the myReport.xls, i got message: The file you are trying to open "myReport.xls" is in diffrent format than specific the file extension.3. I then change myReport.xls to myReport.xlsx then run the page to get new file and sitll got diffrent error when open it : This file can't be previewed because of error in MS Excel previewever.4. If i change myReport.xls to myReport.csv then create the file again, and re-open and it show no mesage but it shows all HTML attribute (td, tr, table).  How can i save the resust into csv file?What can i do not having either one of message ablove when i open the file? i am using MX excel 2010 version. Woul you pls advice this? Thanks<cfsavecontent variable="saveContent1"><cfcontent type="application/msexcel"><cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value=

Hi,are there any known issues about changing required attendess of an event using the cfexchangecalendar tag with action modify (CF10, Exchange Server Version 2010)? It is possible to add another attendee, but if I want to remove an attendee the changes don't take effect.Example:Old list of attendess a@mail.com,b@mail.com, c@mail.com, strored in the associated exchange event item.<cfset eventStruct.requiredAttendees = "a@mail.com,b@mail.com"><cfexchangecalendar     action = "modify"     event = "#eventStruct#"     uid = "myEventsUID"     connection = "establishedConnection"> Thanks in advance

Hi, I have the form is displayed with several text boxes.  The checkbox is displayed beside each field which has it own ID.  If i check three checkboxes then hit next, i'd like to see it passed three diffrent IDs' passed to next.cfm page.  Can someone please help how to pass value with dynamic name?<!---form.cfm---><cfform name="update" method="post" action="next">    <cfloop query="q_cat">    ......    <cfinput type="checkbox" id="cat" name="update_#id#" value="#id#">    <cfinput type="submit" name="next" value="Next">    </cfloop></cfform><!---next.cfm--->  <cfoutput>  #evaluate("update.#id#")#  </cfoutput>thank you

I'm using CF9. Has anyone been successful with CFHTTP when the target URL is using a wildcard SSL certificate? I've imported the cert and full cert path into the certificate store. I don't have any problems with non-wildcard certs, only wildcard certs. Thus far I've only found one reference to this topic and it simply stated "I have never been successful using wildcard certificates on CF8 and below." Yet there is no reference as to if or how to be successful with CF9 or above.

Update 9, 10, 11 have not been run.Following is the error:java.lang.String cannot be cast to coldfusion.runtime.Scope The specific sequence of files included or processed is: path removed, line: 100Pretty simple and straightforward attempt to insert:<cfschedule action="update" operation="httprequest" startdate="07/10/13" starttime="1:38 PM" url="path removed" interval="once" task="TEST1">Any ideas?

I've been developing an API for FIFA 13 that will allow me to search for cards and if any of the results match my criteria then it will make a bid for that card.At the moment I have an index.cfm file that contains a 'Start' search button and this calls a JS function which makes a XMLHttpRequest and I call another file from my application in the .open method which makes a CFHTTP request to the server, loops round the response, and submits another CFHTTP request if I'm submitting a bid on any of the returned results.The issue I seem to be running in to though is that there is a max request per second threshold of 3 which I seem to exceeding.  I've put the JS function within a setInterval function and set it to every 5 seconds (which should be more than enough) but from looking in FireBug what seems to be happening is that some of the CFHTTP search requests are queuing and then sending all within the same second which is causing my session to timeout.What I've now tried to implement

Hi, Just found one security patch info from the following link. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-19.htmlI have ColdFusion 9.0.2 enterprise edition running on UNIX. Please let me know if the released patch is applicable or not.Thanks in advance.

Hi. I am trying to have an email automatically sent to me when an html form is completed and also include an attachment that the user has attached when they hit submit. But whhen I go to run it, I get no errors however I don't even get the email.  So I can't debug because there is no way to set breakpoints in dreamweaver. Here are parts of my .cfm code. Thanks for your help in advanced.<CFMAIL TO=....my code>----------------------------------Data entered through form----------------------------------Date: #form.Date#Name: #form.Name#  <cffileaction="UPLOAD"fileField="form.datafile"destination="#GetTempDirectory()#"nameconflict="MAKEUNIQUE"/><cfmailparam file="#form.datafile#" disposition="attachment" type="text"></CFMAIL>

Hello, I tried to call a web service hosted in a IBM WebSphere server, but could not pass WebSphere's security framework. After some talking with the guys in the WebSphere side, I'm not sure whether this is possible in ColdFusion because they ask for a <wsse:UsernameToken> in the SOAP envelope header. We did some testing, and they confirmed that ColdFusion could talk to the web service, by could not pass security validation. Would someone help me here? Must it be done in Java? Here is my calling syntax in ColdFusion: <cfinvoke webservice="https://WebServiceURL?wsdl" method="myMethod" username="myUserName" password="myPassword" returnVariable="ReturnCode"> <cfinvokeargument name="ParaName" value="ParameterValue"> </cfinvoke> The web service is locked down, so the calling client must issue a SOAP message containing VALID security extensions: <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ws=" http://somedomain" xml

Hi everyone,I was problem while run cfm page, for 4 weeks ago, the ColdFusion stop in error Protocol Violation Error - ORA-17401.I'm using JDBC Oracle connector version 1.6 with Oracle 11 g.Where the error show, the server stop communication from Oracle and returns only restart the CF Service, other servers dont stop communication.I have 4 servers with 4 processors Quad-Core, 32 GB RAM and 1 TB HD, with Windows 2008 and IIS 7.5.The ColdFusion is update level 11.Any answers?

Version is 10,0,11,285437info athttp://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-update-11.html

I just migrated my last MS Access database over to SQL Server 8 database.I have  tables with 100-20,000 rows in them.My question is what can I do to improve performance (page load time)?I have pages that are taking 10 seconds to load that took 2 seconds with Access...I expected improvement with MSSQL.I have indexed tables etc...Is there something in the CF code I need to modify also.I am using CF9

Hi! I am working on a first CF app, and encountered three things that I don't know how to do it regarding forms1) I need to test that the password and confirm password fields are the same before submitting the form to processing cfm. How do I do that with cf? (I don't know other  languages)2) I have a first field in a form with a dropdown where a choose employee gender. I want in the same form below within a second field to have a dropdown list populated with all employees having the gender selected above which I get through a query. Is it possible to do that without submission? 3) I want to arrange payments to employees based on their job. For management, there are beside salary, bonuses. I want to make a general form for this action, but if I choose in a field above a MANAGER position, another field to be inserted below to be filled with bonus amount, however, if i choose NORMAL EMPLOYEE above, this BONUS Field should not appear. Is it possible to change the content of cfform ba

Is there a way to access public folders on Microsoft Exchange.  This can be any version of ColdFusion and any version of Exchange.  Right now I have CF9 and Exchange 2007, but we are looking to upgrade to CF10 and Exchange 2013.

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Spent past 12 weeks building web site using a ton of CFLAYOUT's; which are new to me.  Developed in Google Chrome. Today someone told me it was spinning.  In IE10. Removed code chunks bit by bit.  Til I found the culprit. Then I built an incredibly simple test template ...                       <cflayout type="tab"                        align="left"                        name="eventdet"                              tabHeight="100px"             &

I have a new site that I'm trying to launch on my local IIS7 server on Windows Server 2008.  In the past, to handle mappings etc. I've always been able to run the wsconfig tool after creating the site within IIS without issue.  However, after the latest run I'm getting an Access is Denied error when I run the command from command line:wsconfig.exe -ws IIS -site my_site...\ExecutedAppCmd.exe (Access is denied)When I tried to run the utility via the GUI, there are no sites within the initial dropdown for Configured Web Servers(See below).I'm am logged in as an administrator, and I'm running the command line as an admin so that shouldn't be an issue.This utility worked a month ago.  What could possibly going on?  Google is turning up nothing for me.I'm currently running Coldfusion 10 Enterprise.