settings.xml file??

[WolfShade]

(I still say the new JIVE interface is ugly)

Hello, all,

One of my co-workers has been tasked to document a legacy CF site that was built about ten years ago.

Everything was going well, until he noticed that in the root of the site is a "settings.xml" file.

He's not finding any references to it in any of the CFML code.  Is there a valid reason to have settings.xml in the site root?  He's not sure what to write for the documentation; and in all the years I've been working with CF, I've never seen that, before.

V/r,

^_^

[Carl Von Stetten · Accepted solution]

Have you or your co-worker used ColdFusion Builder to work with this code?  If you create a project in CFBuilder, a settings.xml file for it will be created (along with a .settings folder).

What's in the file?

[WolfShade]

Hi, Carl,

I haven't looked at the file, so don't know what's in it.  But there is a very good chance that the original developer used CFB when he developed the legacy site.  Is it safe to delete?  We don't use CFB, anymore.

V/r,

^_^

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[Carl Von Stetten]

You need to verify what the contents of the file are to be sure it is from CFBuilder.  Does it look something like this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ResourceDetails>
  <ServerName>SomeServerName</ServerName>
  <LauncherName>SomeProjectName</LauncherName>
  <ExternalBrowser/>
  <UseStartPage>false</UseStartPage>
  <StartPage useextension="false" />
  <Mappings/>
  <VariableMappings/>
  <DictionaryVersion>ColdFusion11</DictionaryVersion>
  <CFCMappings>
       <MappingName>/Mapping1</MappingName>
       <Path>C:\somepath</Path>
       <MappingName>/Mapping2</MappingName>
       <Path>C:\someotherpath</Path>
  </CFCMappings>
</ResourceDetails>

[WolfShade]

I'm getting the co-worker to bring it up. 

Yup.. it's similar to that.  Is that for CFBs benefit?

V/r,

^_^

[Carl Von Stetten]

Yes.  It stores the project-specific settings you configure in CFBuilder.  It can be safely deleted.

[WolfShade]

Thanks, Carl.  I'll let him know.

V/r,

^_^