This worked great. The main reason is that I wanted it to work with something that already exists. I am putting up a placeholder site and using components from another site/application. All this will be redone in a few months and it will be it's own application then.
> ><cfsavecontent variable="myText"> > <cfinclude...> ></cfsavecontent> > >Adrian > >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel Kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 September 2006 15:43 >To: CF-Talk >Subject: including into a cfset > > >okay, I'm sure this is cause I'm just not thinking right this >morning, but I've stared and stared and just don't see the answer. > >I have a bit of text that I want to represent in alot of places >("epidemiology and biostatistics") and wish to do: ><cfinclude template='department_name.cfm'> which is just >"epidemiology and biostatistics" > >I also have a variable this is used in alot of places that I also >need to set to this text: ><cfset page_location = "epidemiology and biostatistics"> > >It would be nice if I could set page_location to the cfinclude, but >not only does it not work, it looks silly: ><cfset page_location = <cfinclude template='department_name.cfm'>> > >How would I do this ? >page_location is used in other modules not owned by this, so I need >to keep that variable and just set it to the included information. > >thanks. > > >-- > >Daniel Kessler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4