Please kindly update HTML help files for Coldfusion 8. The
team responsible for Homesite should wake up from the slumber.
There is a persistent sloppiness in the way Adobe is handling
the Homesite update for Coldfusion 8. The help files for Coldfusion
8 are not helpful at all. They miss information that is vital to
the developer.
For example, compare the
Livedocs
documentation on cfquery with that of
Homesite+[{HOMESITE_HOME}\Extensions\Docs\CFMLTags\cfquery.htm].
Having just the paragraphs Description, Syntax and Example, the
Homesite version is disgracefully thin. Most of the vital headings
like Category, See Also, History, Attributes and Usage are missing.
This applies to all the help files for tags, and also to all the
help files for functions in the directory
\Extensions\Docs\CFMLFunctions\. Homesite's help files are too
meagre to be of much use.
They say nothing about the attributes of a tag or about the
parameters of a function. It doesn't get more fundamental than
that. Yet, no one at Adobe seems to bother. We've been complaining
about it for some time. See for example:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=1&catid=3&threadid=12 99253
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=1&catid=3&threadid=13 04932
Could you please redo all the HTML help files, for tags as
well as for functions, so that they match the content of the
Coldfusion 8 Livedocs. With the current help files, it is
practically impossible to develop Coldfusion 8 on Homesite.
+1to that!!!
@BKBK: i have been advised by Jason Delmore to submit an official but report about this in reply to my post on Kristen Schofield's blog
Pardon my ignorance, but am I to assume that the help files are still incorrect after installing the ColdFusion 8 Update for HomeSite+? (I'm not currently a Homesite user, but I will be moving to it in the not-too-distant future.)