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Please vote for documentation on using servlets in ColdFusion

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:34:03 GMT

There is at present little to no documentation on using servlets directly in ColdFusion 10. The little documentation there is, is wrong. Please vote for the bug report.

Re: What happened to the ColdFusion 8 documentation?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:00:13 GMT

Looks like the ColdFusion 8 documentation is available again: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/index.html

What happened to the ColdFusion 8 documentation?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:36:03 GMT

All links to ColdFusion 8 documentation (such as on this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/archive.html) seem to redirect to http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion.html now.

Re: Inserting PDF Filename

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:08:48 GMT

Are you referring to processing that file somehow with the ColdFusion web application server software from Adobe? If not, then you have really found the wrong place to ask your question. This forum is only for working with that software.

If I’m understanding you right, your problem is with your HP application, and you should be directing your question to an appropriate HP forum. Again, did you choose this forum because it had the name “documentation” in it? If so, and you are not using ColdFusion, you will not find your answer here, and in fact your forum thread may be deleted by the forum moderators.

Do let us know if I am misunderstanding you. We absolutely want to help with ColdFusion documentation-related problems here.

/charlie

Re: Inserting PDF Filename

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:35:45 GMT

Hi Charlie

Thank you for time!!

I'm saving with an HP application that accompanied the scanner machine.

The application is a simple scanning software.

When the paper exits the scanner, it pops up a Save As dialog.

I want to reduce the time of writing down the filename, because of the amount of paperforms.

So i realized that someone could have create a script which can name each scanning papaerform automatically.

That name has to be taken from the scanned papeform (9 digit number, always) by OCR method.

Any help would be helpful...thanks once again!

Re: Inserting PDF Filename

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:28:33 GMT

Please tell us how it is you’re trying to save the PDFs. There are many tags and functions in CFML that you could be using. We really need more details to understand how best to propose a solution for you.

Also, you have raised this in the context of a documentation comment. (That’s what this “documentation” forum is about. Not about documentation as a task or role in general.) If you don’t find you get a good answer here, you may want to raise this instead in the CF Getting Started forum, http://forums.adobe.com/community/coldfusion/coldfusion_getting_started?view=discussions.

Hope that’s helpful.

/charlie

Inserting PDF Filename

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:31:29 GMT

Hello there...

I have a very hard job to do here in the office...Documentation in general...

So my problem is this (and i think it's somewhat complicated, at least for me)

I have to scan about a dozen of thousands of applications (style: form) and then i have to save and name them.

THE PROBLEM:

The name of PDF has to be a application field-number, with many characters.

I want this number to be pdf's filename while i'm saving....

Conclusion: Because of the outrageous number of papers that have to be scanned, i lookup for a solution that will help me from spending time on writing each PDF's filename

Thank you very much for your time..

I appreciate any help...

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:58:24 GMT

You can get the PDFs of the documentation here:

https://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/Downloads

When saving a word doc as pdf the TOC changes all the page numbers to 2?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:53:13 GMT

When saving a word doc as pdf the TOC changes all the page numbers to 2? Any help would be gratefully received.

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:53:31 GMT

Hmm, on the top right you can see the View Help PDF download link, like this one http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Developing/coldfusion_10_dev.pdf

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:55:51 GMT

Thanks Carl,

I agree. That's my plan. I just need some references when I run into problems so I can figure out what is wrong. Coldfusion has great error messages, but I still need to be able to look up the tags, functions, etc that will most likely be showing up in the error messages to see how they are being handled in ColdFusion 10.

Thanks,

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:49:32 GMT

Joe CF5 to CF10 is probably another topic.

Make a development CF10 environment with a datasource to a copy of your database ie not live database, place CFM application, apply any CF environment to make application work (eg mappings). Begin testing and debug of application usage.

All the best with that, Carl.

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:48:51 GMT

Thanks Petro,

I must be missing something as I don't see the pdfs. Just links to more HTML pages. The links to Coldfusion Admininstration or CFML Reference take me to HTML pages and more links. I'd like to get what they are calling the Documentation Set in PDF form so I could read and search through it, but I can't find them anywhere. I am hoping that will help with our migration from ColdFusion 5 to 10.

Thanks,

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:34:28 GMT

Thanks Carl,

That's where a lot of the searches take me. The problem is, I have to click through link after link to get to something and then it's pretty brief. I have a site that is in ColdFusion 5 and we are starting to migrate everything to 10. What I am really looking for is to find out what has changed since 5. I am sure there is a lot. Any thoughts on what the best approach might be for this kind of migration? I mainly need to know the changes and new features that have been introduced since 5.

Thanks,

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:33:19 GMT

The guy wanted PDFs, here you go - http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Developing/index.html.

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:27:22 GMT

Hi Joe, Perhaps you will like this URL https://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/Home

HTH, Carl.

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:18:25 GMT

I tried this and it takes me to http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/help/index.html. I am looking for the manuals in pdf format. This page keeps to taking me to link after link and it finally ends up on very small html pages. I would really like to get the files in the format they used to be in, which was pdf, so I can read and search them. Are they still available?

Thanks,

Re: Installing the Server Configuration

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:00:31 GMT

In the section above, "Updating from an earlier version", Step 2 refers to the directory for the previous CF instance's neo*.xml files as being cf_webapp_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/. That is indeed the location on a multiserver deployment (multiple instances) for previous releases, such as C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib.

But this is chapter about 'Installing the Server Configuration", if one may be referring to the neo*.xml files of a previous CF9 or earlier Server configuration (for CF Standard or Enterprise in the Server configuration), the location would instead be cf_root/lib, as in C:\ColdFusion8\lib or C:\ColdFusion9\lib.

Similarly, step 3 refers only to "Edit the ColdFusion 10 cfusion/lib/adminconfig.xml file". That is almost correct. CF10 no longer has a separate multiserver configuration option, but the Enterprise Server configuration does offer the means to install new instances. So while that refernce to the cfusion/lib is correct for a Standard deployment, or an Enterprise deployment with only one instance, it's worth clarifying here that if one adds a new CF10 instance (under an Enterprise license), then the location would be instancename/lib/adminconfig.xml.

Re: HMac

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:05:34 GMT

HMac function returns encrypted string. Not a Boolean value as description states.

Re: HMac

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:02:58 GMT

HMACRIPEMD160 algorithm they used in sample is not listed at docs.oracle.com article. So, ColdFusion's algorithm names must be different.

Algorithms from this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.h mac.aspx recognized with HMac():

HMACMD5, HMACRIPEMD160, HMACSHA1, HMACSHA256, HMACSHA384, HMACSHA512

Re: cffile action = "uploadAll"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:58:49 GMT

@carehart, thanks for the info. I just submitted a bug report.

Re: cffile action = "uploadAll"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:03:20 GMT

@Jerry, note that if you really mean to be making a bug report, you want to file that at https://bugbase.adobe.com/, to ensure that Adobe sees it, it gets tracked, you'll get notified of any response, and others can vote on/watch the progress of the bug. There's no guarantee anyone from Adobe would respond to your observation here.

Still, sharing the info here is indeed helpful, so other readers of the documentation page in question know of the concern. But then some people (sharing such info) would instead file a bug report and then offer here a link to its URL with perhaps just the title. Hope that's helpful.

Re: cffile action = "uploadAll"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:31:55 GMT

Bug report.

The Result attribute returns a Structure instead of an Array of Structures when an exception is thrown under the following condition:

1. More than one file is being Uploaded.

2. The first file uploads successfully.

3. The second or subsequent file throws an exception; in my case the file didn't meet the acceptable mime types specified in the Accept attribute.

When this occurs the Result returned is a Structure which contains the results for the last successfully processed file.

Example: If you are uploading 6 files and sixth one throws an exception the Structure contains the results for the fifth file; the results for file 1-4 are lost.

Additional info:

If you are uploading only one file and an exception is thrown, Result is an empty Array. Good

If you are uploading more than one file and an exception is thrown on the first file, Result is an empty Array. Good

Re: Creating WebSocket object using cfwebsocket

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 30 May 2013 07:53:45 GMT

Spell check your sample code. "receives" not "recieves".

Re: encodeForHTML

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:05:20 GMT

Just FYI, I did some analysis here:

According to the docs for OWASP’s encodeForHtml(), this function ought to be escaping characters in these ranges: 00-08, 0B-0C, 0E-1F, and 7F-9F. However, obviously, there are no characters in those ranges in that input string.

Now I can see what’s going on: a THORN is HTML character entity 222, which is DE in hex, so if one was to treat "%DE" as a percent-encoded hex charcter, then that’d be a thorn. However percent encoding has got nothing to do with HTML (it’s to do with URIs), so that interpretation seems irrelevant to me. What I do know is that in the context of HTML, "%device%" doesn’t need encoding to be "safe", so it shouldn’t be touched by this function.

Not that this helps you, but it helps understand what's going on.

I've voted for the bug.

Adam

Re: encodeForHTML

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:58:32 GMT

Alright, until I know more I'm sticking with the old HTMLEditFormat. In the mean time I've added Bug 3566150.

Re: encodeForHTML

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:33:35 GMT

I see the same. I'd raise a bug if I was you. As for a work-around, not sure, given I don't see why it's messing with your string in the first place (it already seems safe to me?)

Adam

Re: encodeForHTML

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:33 GMT

When I try "EncodeForHTML('%Device%')" I end up with "Þvice%" which displays on the page as "Þvice%" Obviously this isn't what I intended. Is there a way to prevent this function from assuming the input string is encoded?

Re: Using the built-in web server

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:20 GMT

Unfortunately I need things really spelled out for me so virtual directory code was still a little bit vague for me. For you simpletons like me, this what the virtual mapping would look like for a windows user needing multiple alias mappings.

<Context path="/" docBase="C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot" WorkDir="C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\tmp" aliases="/VD=C:\newwebroot\VD,/test=C:\newwebroot\test">
</Context>

This link was verrrry helpful for me when figuring this out: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/coldfusion-tomcat.html

Re: Using the cfcompile utility

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:48:23 GMT

The doc page here about the precompile utility does not clarify where it puts the compiled class files, so I'll add a little more info for readers here.

As the cfcompile tool's purpose is (by default) to simply precompile CFML templates the same way that CF would, running the tool puts the resulting .class files in the same place that CF would put them when it compiled them itself during normal page execution (assuming you have “save class files” enabled in the CF Admin>Caching page).

In CF10, that location would be [coldfusion10]\[instance]\wwwroot\WEB-INF\cfclasses (where [instance] is cfusion if you have not created multiple instances).

If anyone would wonder, no, it does not matter whether you have “save class files” enabled in the CF Admin when you try to use the cfcompile tool. It will save files to that cfclasses directory, regardless.

(Also, note that if you had used the -deploy argument for the cfcompile tool, then that WOULD let you name a destination directory for the resulting files. This form of the tool is intended for you to create files that you would take and put on some other server, and they would be sourceless CFM files, not class files.)

Re: HMac

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:02:35 GMT

The Mac algorithms are documented here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/StandardNames.html#Mac.

Re: CF 7 in windows 2008 R2

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:44:21 GMT

Hi,

CF7 is not tested with SQL server 2008 R2 and is not officially supported. A detailed list of supported environment is available at http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productinfo/systemreqs/fp_frameset.html

Regards,

Anit Kumar

CF 7 in windows 2008 R2

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:52:45 GMT

CF7 works in windows server 2008 R2, can it connect with SQL 2008 R2?

Re: DateTimeFormat

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:32:35 GMT

Adobe, are you actually going to sort these docs out? Have you seen the great swathe of comments pointing out its shortcomings? Maybe - like me - you have a Flash blocker, and don't even SEE the comments by default. Why do the comments require Flash? (why, these days, does ANYTHING require Flash?)

Other observations: there's no Category, See Also or History sections on this page.

Adam

Re: Functions by category

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:33:43 GMT

listRemoveDuplicates isn't listed: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/CFMLRef/WSd8001ae4abdbd911-7fc6f4b01350d8e2282 -8000.html

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:39:39 GMT

Okay, so the answer is that it's "AsDesigned".

There's an option in the installer to install local documentation, but there's a bug report with a comment on it:

"Local documentation is no longer available as part of the installation. You can access the documentation online at http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion.html."

(Full bug located at https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3342688)

Well fix the installer them. Wasting my bloody time!

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:23:12 GMT

Thanks for that Carl.

I was actually hoping for the HTML version, similar to what I was able to get on previous versions. But I guess the PDF is not too bad an option.

Andrew

Re: Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:38:02 GMT

Hi Andrew, You could go to online help and select "View Help PDF" then save the PDF file to local drive for latter reference.

HTH, Carl.

Local Copy of CF10 Documentation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:34:04 GMT

Hi,

When I installed CF10, I selected the option in the installer to install the documentation. However I cannot see any sign of it on my PC.

Where does it put it? I realise I can access it online, but I have always found it much more efficient to have an offline copy running on my local server.

Alternatively, is it possible to download the docs as a zip file and install them locally?

Regards,

Andrew.

Re: cfsearch

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:16:51 GMT

Building a Search Interface link is 404

Re: cffile action = "upload"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:43:25 GMT

Well, to be clear, I don’t think the docs have ever been updated between releases. The point of mentioning them here is a) so that it might be fixed in the next version and b) so that until then others who do come looking might see the comments.

/charlie

Re: cffile action = "upload"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:28:33 GMT

RE: strict

Yeah, amazing that it's been out here a year and it's still not updated.

Re: Regular expression syntax

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:57:55 GMT

FFS! Useless comment system:

cfdump var=#rematch('[a\-c]','abc-123_')#

Re: Regular expression syntax

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:56:32 GMT

This is incorrect: "To include a hyphen in the brackets of a character set as a literal character, you cannot escape it as you can other special characters because ColdFusion always interprets a hyphen as a range indicator."

You CAN escape the hyphen in a character class.

This can be demonstrated with:

Were the hyphen acting as a range, there would be five items in the array but since it is literal there are only the three.

Re: Handling form field validation errors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:25:42 GMT

Use a Try and Catch Statement to test the data.

Re: cffile

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:33:43 GMT

Charlie,

I tried text as the MIME type but not HTML. I realize that strict was added in CF10 because I'm having to modify the code we used in CF 9 where I used accept="text/, image/, application/*". Perhaps I'm wrong about strict defaulting to true but when I leave it out altogether or include strict="true" in my cffile tag and then try and use accept=".cfm" (which works when I include strict="false" in the cffile tag) I get this error:

When the value of the attribute STRICT is TRUE, it requires valid MIME types in the attribute(s): ACCEPT.

The error occurred in C:/inetpub/wwwroot/sonisweb26bugfix/upload_rpt.cfm: line 42

40 :

As you can see I do not explicitly set strict="true" in my code but the error clearly indicates that CF thinks STRICT is TRUE. Note: this is another upload function for uploading CFR files, not CFMs. I will need to determine what MIME type CFRs are, too.

Re: cffile action = "upload"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:29:07 GMT

Wow, I just noticed that this page makes no mention of the new STRICT attribute added in CF10 for CFFILE action="upload". I also checked and find no reference to it in the Developing CF Apps manual. There's a brief mention of it in the main page for CFFILE here in the CFML Reference, but it doesn't explain what the feature does. It seems (for now) that the best resource may be the blog entry from Sagar Ganatra, who was an Adobe engineer: http://www.sagarganatra.com/2012/03/coldfusion-10-cffile-restricting-file.html

Re: cffile

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:25:33 GMT

As a followup, I just noticed that this page does in fact indicate that "The default value of strict is false", for what it's worth. But hope the last reply more directly answers your question, Jim.

Re: cffile

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:20:21 GMT

@jsidway (Jim?), I really don’t think that the default of STRICT was changed to true. Indeed, to be clear, STRICT was only added in 10, and for compatibility sake I’m nearly positive it defaults to false. I just noticed that the cffile upload page in the CFML reference makes no mention of that, so I will go add a comment there. (I’m not at the moment able to setup a test myself in answering your question here. Am just sharing some thoughts if they may help.)

As for your need, of course some would caution against uploading CFMs for security sake, but hey the whole purpose of the strict is to increase security so that if you do allow some type, at least you make sure that the file IS only of that type (according to its contents, which the STRICT will check), and not some other type.

So as for the mime type for CFM files, well, I’d propose that since they’re just text files and mostly like HTML files, then you just need the mimetype for HTML files. Have you tried text/html?

/charlie

PS I notice that you’re asking here on the main page for CFFILE, rather than that CFFILE upload page. I’d think that would have been the better place for this, though at this point I realize it’s too late.

Re: cffile

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:22:39 GMT

It appears that since this page was written that the default value of the strict attribute was changed to 'true'. I would like to configure a file upload to accept .cfm files and enforce the strict attribute but I cannot figure out what MIME type to use. With strict = false I can upload .cfm files with this code: but if I set strict="true" I can't get the upload to work with accept="text/.cfm" or accept="application/.cfm" or anything else that I try as MIME type designation. I really don't want someone to be able to disguise an exe or other non-cfm file as a cfm.