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January 7, 2009
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CF8 Help in Dreamweaver CS3

  • January 7, 2009
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Does anyone know how to configure Dreamweaver CS3 to show CF8 help when I hit F1 while I have a CF tag highlighted?

Thanks so much for any help.

A.J.cfm
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Inspiring
January 7, 2009
A.J.cfm wrote:
> Does anyone know how to configure Dreamweaver CS3 to show CF8 help when I hit F1 while I have a CF tag highlighted?

CTRL+F1 provides ColdFusion help. If you specifically want F1 for ColdFusion help, then you can change the keyboard shortcut via: Edit-> Keyboard shortcuts. If you've not made any changes to your shortcuts, then you'll need to make a copy to work from. Then, you'll need to change (remove?) the F1 shortcut from the Menu commands category under Help -> Dreamweaver Help. Then change the ColdFusion help to whatever shortcut you want.


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Inspiring
January 7, 2009
A.J.cfm wrote:
> Hey thanks didn't see the CTRL+F1 menu item (I know 'da') but that just opens
> up the livedocs.adobe.com web page and the help content is not for the tag
> highlted in DWCS3. Is there way to make it work like it did in Studio and
> HomeSite?

Never used CF Studio or HomeSite so I don't know how they worked. Perhaps you can explain more about what you're actually like to have happen.

There is the CF8 updater extension for Dreamweaver (for CS3 and CS4):
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html
Which adds a new menu item on the Help menu which goes to: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/
Adobe is moving toward online help, but they tend to have PDFs available of their docs which the above link offers.


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Danilo Celic
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Inspiring
January 7, 2009
A.J.cfm wrote:
> Well lets say I have the tag cfinvoke highlighted when I hit CTRL+F1 I would like the help (any type) to open and show the help for cfinvoke. Does that make sense?
>
> Thanks so much BTW.

This extension may be of use: http://www.tom-muck.com/extensions/help/contexthelptoolbar/

I've not used it and it specifies "newly updated for ColdFusion 7" so not sure how well it will work with the CF8 tags.


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Danilo Celic
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