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As others have mentioned, CF Builder is based on Eclipse. Here's what I recall of how this works. It's been a long time since I've used CF Builder, though. Eclipse has its own, arguably somewhat peculiar, approach to where it puts files and how you get them to where they ultimately need to go. In Eclipse, you create a workspace, which typically is somewhere in your own local Windows profile if you're on Windows. But your CF server, or more specifically IIS in this case, doesn't typically store its web root in your local Windows profile, so you have to have some way to get files from your workspace to IIS.

CF Builder's default approach to doing this is to configure a RDS connection to CF/IIS. When you save your project, you'll be able to deploy it to CF/IIS via RDS, which connects via HTTP to a "fake" URL that CF uses for management requests. RDS must be enabled within the CF Administrator for this to work.

Now, this is a significant amount of work if everything's on the same machine, so you might find it easier just to configure your workspace directory to point to your IIS webroot and call it a day. If you do this, you'll lose some of the RDS functionality for other things like building SQL queries, etc, but you might not need or want that anyway.

I think this link is still relevant.

ColdFusion Help | Manage projects in ColdFusion Builder

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

I hope you don't mean you imported the FILEs one by one. There would have been no reason to do that.

And to be clear, you do NOT need to use the "run" feature in CFBuilder. It's a convenience, but it's merely opening a browser to the URL that you could type yourself. Still, there are ways to associate a URL with a project, and that would be your next step now that you have created a project.

Still, rather than detail the steps, I'd rather "teach you to fish", as the saying goes.

Your need now is to simply get up to speed with using CFBuilder. I realize one could reasonably hope/expect to just open it and go to work, but it's VERY different from Visual Studio. Indeed, it's very different from traditional CFML editors that preceded it like Dreamweaver and CF Studio, or more popular current editors like VisualStudio Code, Sublime Text, and NotePad++ (all of which offer CFML extensions to ease working with CFML in them). And surely some will just recommend you switch to one of them, the current darling of the community being Visual Studio Code (for good reason, and which is free).

But for someone wanting to get the most out of (or simply forced to use) CF Builder, note that there is an entire guide for it, as well as (what may suit you better) a "getting started" guide, at Getting started with Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release) . It would be 18 pages if printed and will really help you, I think.

Then as for the complete guide,  it's available not only in the help of CFBuilder itself but also online at ColdFusion Help | ColdFusion User Guide .  There are still other online resources you can find, but to beware relying on ones that are too old. Indeed, you may find readily via google searching what seems a "great" PDF  of the CFBuilder docs, at https://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusionBuilder/Using/cfbuilder_help.pdf. But note that it's from 2010, which is the CF9 era, and it's about an OLD version of  CFBuilder. It was changed quite substantially in the CF10 (2012) era. Look instead to what I link to above.

But some don't like to read, and you asked about training. If you mean for CFBuilder, I have not seen any class about it specifically, but note that it was covered in the substantial free 9-hour series of training videos that Adobe released about getting started with CF2016, available as a youtube playlist here: Getting Started with Adobe ColdFusion (2016 release) - YouTube

And FWIW, I offer a link to that and several OTHER free trainign resources in a category of my CF411 site, here:
http://www.cf411.com/cftrainingfree

And I offer there a category as well for CF trainers (with paid training), at http://www.cf411.com/cftrainers , but as you experienced often the challenge is getting them to commit to a date, if they don't get "enough" students. With so many free resources (online training, youtube vidoes, Adobe online docs/guides, and more), it's no wonder that folks offering training find fewer and fewer interested students. (It's certainly not because there's not plenty to teach about CF, as it's changing in useful ways every 2 years).

And since that last comment will surely bring out the skeptics, I would say that it's also NOT because "no one is using CF anymore", because clearly Adobe would not be in the business of offering it, let alone updating it, if that were true. And my own business, having over 1000 clients for my CF troubleshooting consulting and getting a new client about every week also let's me say with confidence that CF is not dead, nor even dying. I realize others will argue that point. This is not the place for that. I only brought it up in the context of the challenge one may have with finding training. It's simply less and less needed with so many online resources.

@remmarg, I hope that what I shared above helps you.

PS I see that you offered a similar but different variation of this same question in the CF Portal. Since some will see this and not that, or vice-versa, I will go offer a link there to my answer here.

Hello, remmarg, and welcome to the forums.

As someone who has been developing CF for 19 years, I am really curious as to why you would want to start learning CF.  TBH, ColdFusion has been losing popularity for over a decade, and I've been to many job interviews (over 7 years ago, granted) that were looking for CF devs to help port their apps to other platforms (like .Net), and I'm not seeing many jobs in my local area (St Louis, MO) that are looking for CF developers.

If you are truly dedicated to using CF Builder, I can't help you with your issue as I gave up on CFB a long time ago.  It's an Eclipse-based IDE and I've never liked Eclipse.  I've been using DreamWeaver, and it's very easy to setup a project in DW.  There are also IDEs such as NotePad++, or even Adobe's Brackets, that are much easier (IMHO) to use than CFB.

But, it sounds to me as though when you set up this project in CFB, you picked one folder as the project root but are saving files to another.  Again, I'm no longer familiar with CFB, so the way projects are set up are probably different from when I last used CFB (v2) many moons ago.

V/r, (Very respectfully)

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