ColdFusion
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ColdFusion Dropping, Losing, or Resetting Session Variables and CFID/CFTOKEN
36 Comments
ColdFusion, Web development
Actually, this is not ColdFusion’s fault; it is a browser issue. Here’s what happens: A user logins into your application, navigates through it, and then, inexplicably, gets booted out or not recognized. Sometimes it is just one page that seems to be the problem, sometimes several. Sometimes it is one browser, say IE, and not [...]
Tags: browser, ColdFusion
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Google Visualization API and ColdFusion: Create a Data Table
The Google Visualization API is fun to play around with and it’s quite powerful. There are a number of charts and graphs to choose from and filling them up with data from ColdFusion is a snap. At least it was for this table example here. Most of this code comes straight out of Google’s documentation [...]
Tags: ColdFusion, Google
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Using ColdFusion to Generate Multiple Word Documents (Batch Creation)
5 CommentsColdFusion, Web development, Work
UPDATE: Now includes line returns. The example’s form has been modified with additional fields so adding line returns to the Word doc could be shown. The zip has all the new files. As a continuation (and request from Simon) to the Using ColdFusion to Generate a Custom Word Document post, here is an example of [...]
Tags: ColdFusion, Word
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Using ColdFusion to Generate a Custom Word Document
27 CommentsColdFusion, Web development
An oldie but a goodie, ColdFusion can be used to generate Word documents. Here is a quick example of writing to and opening a Word document. Create Word Template Create a Word template by adding “placeholders” in the document. This is done by wrapping a keyword with % (percent) signs as such: %firstname%. Put in [...]
Tags: ColdFusion, Word
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Cfpop with Gmail and Other Pop Accounts: Processing Emails and Attachments
Accessing messages and attachments in gmail via cfpop can be done in a relatively straightforward way. An example of connecting to and reading messages and attachments from gmail is shown here. Enable POP on gmail First things first. POP access must be enabled on the gmail (or other) account before attempting to download the mail. [...]
Tags: ColdFusion, Google
