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settings.xml file??

LEGEND ,
Apr 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016

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(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.

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Guide , Apr 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016

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?

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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?

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LEGEND ,
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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.

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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>

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LEGEND ,
Apr 21, 2016 Apr 21, 2016

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

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

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

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Thanks, Carl.  I'll let him know.

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