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• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 21, 2009 at 9:13 AM

  In other words, I never thought of trying to be aware of other custom tags on a page, and I never even thought of thinking about a solution like you have been discussing. My idea was not a counter idea to what your discussing, simply what I did with my custom tags when I need to have multiple ta... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 21, 2009 at 9:11 AM

  It didn't, I created my custom tags with the CreateUUID() to be 100% self contained. They each had their own copy of everything they needed to run. Hence: "Not the most efficient, but it worked..." For example, if a custom tag needed to call a JS function, the JS Function would look... read more »

• Do Remote CFC Method Calls Add Any Value In ColdFusion?

  Posted on May 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM

  When I ventured into my first project using the built in cfajaxproxy in CF8, I found the mechanism for directly connecting to the object from the client not as cool as it first looked. First, my CFCs are never stand alone CFC's that's contain all the data it needs to be self sufficient. Lik... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM

  I accomplish this before with creating a variable at the beginning of the custom tag which is nothing more than <cfset uniqueID = CreateUUID()> Then I use that and append it to all my JS functions, and global JS variables. Not the most efficient, but it worked... I like... read more »

• Populating An Existing, Formatted Excel Document Using ColdFusion And POI

  Posted on May 25, 2007 at 11:33 AM

  This looks pretty cool, but I have a question for you, I am in need of something liek this, however, in my template, I need to create a dynamic amount of formatted items... Is there a way to create extra formatted rows?... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on May 25, 2007 at 11:09 AM

  Jean I have my issue solved with what I posted. Question for everyone, I can't find any detail on how to right an excel sheet with formatting, is this possible?... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on May 25, 2007 at 9:54 AM

  Fixed my issue. If you are using your own Query, be sure to add the optional parametters to the QueryNew function that defined the typenames of the columns. This will NOT work <cfset testQuery = QueryNew("column1,column2,column3")> This will work <cfset testQu... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on May 25, 2007 at 9:50 AM

  Ben, I am also getting the typename error, and I am running version 7. This is based on the exact demo code you have listed on this site. Did you figure out how to help jean?... read more »