CF8 Help in Dreamweaver CS3

Report · Jan 07, 2009

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

Report · Jan 07, 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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Report · Jan 07, 2009

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?

Report · Jan 07, 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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Report · Jan 07, 2009

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.

A.J.

Report · Jan 07, 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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Report · Jan 07, 2009

Yeah that works great and it works for html tags as well.

You rock dude! Thanks

A.J.cfm