We actually used to use it all the time for on the fly conversion of word
processing documents into HTML and it worked rather well. When the volume
got higher though we moved to an inbox/outbox system where a dedicated
converter machine fired off a WSH scheduled task to convert stuff in
batches.
We also had the typical problems with passing non-string values, and not
being able to drill directly down into the hierarchy without setting
intermediate variables.
In general I would reccomend using MSWord through the CFOBJECT tag if the
volume of work you have to do is low. When the volume gets high, though, you
probably do want to migrate your process off the server machine and on to a
dedicated "beater box".
Michael Caulfield
Cognitive Arts
-----Original Message-----
From: Reed Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:44 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Using CFOBJECT to connect to WORD?
I just read a real interesting article on the www.coldfusionmonthly.com site
about using CFOBJECT to access Excel files via COM. The primary motivation
of what was talked about in the article was to get Excel to create charts
and graphs. Has anyone tried the similar tack of using CFOBJECT to get
MSWORD to create/edit documents?
thanks,
-reed
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