CF8 - Ajax Form Post and Document Type

[tSpark]

I'm having a problem trying to figure out how to get a form post to return a PDF document using CF8. I can't seem to get CFDOCUMENT to deliver a PDF through the form.

I have a form inside a CFDIV...

<cfdiv id="mydiv">
<cfform action="myscript.cfm" method="post">
a bunch of input fields, then...
<input type="submit" value="Generate PDF" />
</cfform>
</cfdiv>

On submit, the form makes an Ajax call sending the data to a script that generates a PDF using CFDOCUMENT and delivers it through the browser.

However, it is not delivering the PDF. Instead, it is delivering the CODE for the PDF into the CFDIV and trying to display the code. I tried the same form delivering an Excel file with cfcontent and cfheader. It delivers the code instead of the actual document.

If I take this form out of the CFDIV, everything works great.

Why can't the Ajax call made by the CFDIV functionality deliver a PDF or other file?

[mostlySimple]

I'm having the same problem...

[mostlySimple]

I'm having the same problem...

[mostlySimple]

I'm having the same problem...

[Newsgroup_User]

I'm having the same problem...

[Guest]

I'm having the same problems over two years later. CFCONTENT doesn't work as documented when you call it from within an AJAX app. My workarounds that call the code from another directory are way too kludgey for the client, but proved my standard code works outside of AJAX layout areas. I'm specifically trying to do what tSpark also mentioned, that is generate an Excel spreadsheet from query results displayed in an HTML table.

Has anyone solved this problem?

[Adam_Cameron]

See my response to EDUYork on this thread:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=1&catid=7&threadid=1432805&ente...

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Adam