Best approach
Looking for the best approach to the following task: allow users to download a checklist to a tablet pc, do some security checks with the tablet pc in hand (not connected to the web). Upon completing the checks, connect to the Internet and upload the results. Then I can parse and add to the master database. Thought? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326364 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Best approach
I have a great approach to this, assuming java can run on the tablet PC. It is possible to make a bundle with OpenBlueDragon (with some .bat files to handle the startup) capable of running on the Tablet PC. It can run locally with no network required, allow you to leverage your CFML skills to do the processing of the checklist. Once done, the local CFML web application can then send the data (once connected) via web services (or whatever upload mechanism you decide upon) to the main server over the internet. It is also possible through the admin api to set up a datasource from the tablet to the master server programmatically in OpenBD, and insert directly into your database, but you may prefer to expose the database in a different way (ie Web Services, etc.) instead. I have done a standalone server in this manner before. Otherwise, you may be looking at writing a native app on the tablet PC to do this. Allen Randy Adkins wrote: Looking for the best approach to the following task: allow users to download a checklist to a tablet pc, do some security checks with the tablet pc in hand (not connected to the web). Upon completing the checks, connect to the Internet and upload the results. Then I can parse and add to the master database. Thought? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326367 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Best approach
Or look into an AIR app with Flash and the embedded Derby database? AIR will help you handle the sync from local to server. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326368 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Best Approach for Budgeting Tool
Hi, all. I'm creating a basic budgeting/forecasting application and I'd like some possible solutions to this issue: Rather than have the app go through all the debits and credits to calculate the current balance each time the app is used, I'd like to have the previous balance already available from the last time the app was used. Would the best way be to store the previously calculated current balance in a database table with the date of the calculation, so any additional debits and credits are added and subtracted from that balance? Or is there another way to do this so there's not so much calculation everytime the app is run. indexing? Rick ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289504 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: checking for best approach
Alternatively I could save the form data on the confirmation page to hidden values and then on the action page use the data in the hidden fields to write to the database. That's probably how I would approach it. Uncle Ben's CF_EmbedFields custom tag would make this easy. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn131extID=101 #loc=en_usview=sn131extID=101viewName=Adobe%20Exchangeavm=1 ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: checking for best approach
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Everett, Al (NIH/NIGMS) [C] wrote: That's probably how I would approach it. And of course, I don't need to warn you about just blindly taking the data you've saved into the form and got then got handedd back and using it in SQL do I ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to autoschediastically initiate extensible experiences On: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271297 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: checking for best approach
And of course, I don't need to warn you about just blindly taking the data you've saved into the form and got then got handedd back and using it in SQL do I ? Of course not. I am a zealous user of cfqueryparam. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271299 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: checking for best approach
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Tom Chiverton wrote: you've saved into the form and got then got handedd back and using it in you've saved into the form and then got handed back and using it in Damn pubs :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to autoschediastically deploy customized channels On: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: checking for best approach
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Everett, Al (NIH/NIGMS) [C] wrote: Of course not. I am a zealous user of cfqueryparam. Excellent. I'd still parse the inital form into the session scope and just redisplay that though. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to assertively drive compelling solutions On: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271305 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: checking for best approach
I'd still parse the inital form into the session scope and just redisplay that though. Nothing wrong with either approach, of course. I had a couple of reasons for thinking form would be better. - I have to have a form for the configuration button anyway. - Sessions would have to be enabled. - If the user navigates away from the confirmation page I don't want the data to hang around. Of course, these might not apply in the original poster's case. As with so many things CF, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same thing. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271309 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
checking for best approach
Hi there I have a form which I am using to allow a user to enter data into an application. Basically I have it that the user enters the data and then I display the results back to the user - so that they can confirm what they have entered is complete and accurate. The use will then press submit on the confirmation page. I was trying to figure out the best approach to do this. Initially on the confirmation page I was going to: 1. Display the values entered by using cfoutput#form.dataentered#/cfoutput 2. At the same time store a copy of the form data entered into session variables Then once the user pressed submit on the confirmation page I was going to take the values that had been stored in the session variables and use them to write to the database. I was thinking then - is this the best approach? Alternatively I could save the form data on the confirmation page to hidden values and then on the action page use the data in the hidden fields to write to the database. I look forward to hearing ideas and thoughts on the best approach. Regards P ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
I found a JS solution for this. I can create a separate .js file and append a new line to it when they add another sweepstakes. Hopefully that will do the trick. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. And in any case, .htaccess isn't designed for redirects, it's an authentication mechanism. You can use mod_rewrite in Apache, or ISAPI_Rewrite in IIS, to do what you want. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270576 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Hey, I tried the .htaccess thing and it is not working. Here is what I have: Redirect /Nascar/Sweepstakes/index.cfm http://bruceserver/nascar/Sweepstakes/Index.cfm?Sweepstakes_ID=4 This is my test server. My understanding is that the old path starts with a directory as it relates to the sites root, so I start with /nascar/ When I browse to http://bruceserver/nascar/sweepstakes, I get directory browsing is not allowed. When I go to http://bruceserver/nascar/sweepstakes/index.cfm, I get the file not found error. Thanks, Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So /sweepstakeName redirects to /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_ID=45 or /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_Title=SweepstakeName If you want the user to stay at /sweepstakename all the time and not be redirected, you could write out mod_rewrite lines instead. I'm not saying thats a better way of doing it, just another way. I prefer to have as few pieces of code-generated-code as possible. Also you might want to think of having an active flag, so a sweepstake could still exist and be viewed in the admin side, without actually giving users access to it. -Ryan Bruce Sorge wrote: I have been tasked by one of my customers to create an on-line sweepstakes. They want to be able to create a sweepstakes dynamically (title of the sweepstakes, questions, answers and control types). Also, they want to be able to run one or more sweepstakes at a time, but they do not want a link to all of the sweepstakes currently running from the home page. Rather they would want the customer to go to www.sitename.com/sweepstakesname. So here is what I have devised. If anyone has a better idea, I would love to hear it. DB Tables: Sweepstakes sweepstakes_ID int Sweepstakes_Title varchar Questions Question_ID int Question text Sweepstakes_ID Answers Answer_ID int Question_ID int Control_Type varchar Control_Name varchar Answer varchar CustomerAnswers Sweepstakes_ID int Customer_ID int Question_ID int Answer text I have an admin page that flows like this: Admin enters the name of the new sweepstakes. Then they go to the question section. They select the sweepstakes that they want to add questions to, enter in the question, then they go to a page that has them enter answers and control types (radio, checkbox, text, textarea). Once they are done entering the answers for that question, they go back to a new question and then do it all over again. As far as creating a new folder for each .cfm page for the sweepstakes, I thought that when they enter the sweepstakes title, they can enter a name for the directory, then I create a directory with CFDIRECTORY tag, and use CFFILE to copy the .cfm files from a main directory to the new directory. The main sweepstakes page is index.cfm so that should work. Then, when they are done, I can show them a page that has the URL of the sweepstakes they currently created, like www.sitename.com/newcoolsweepstakes. They can then copy and paste it to marketing email to customers. So what do you all think of this? Is this a descent approach or is there a better way to do it? Thanks, ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270531 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So /sweepstakeName redirects to /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_ID=45 or /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_Title=SweepstakeName If you want the user to stay at /sweepstakename all the time and not be redirected, you could write out mod_rewrite lines instead. I'm not saying thats a better way of doing it, just another way. I prefer to have as few pieces of code-generated-code as possible. Also you might want to think of having an active flag, so a sweepstake could still exist and be viewed in the admin side, without actually giving users access to it. -Ryan ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. ? If you're using Apache on Windows, you can certainly use Apache's authentication mechanism: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html http://sniptools.com/tutorials/windows-apache-and-htaccess-authentication If you're using IIS, why would you expect it to work, since it's a specific feature of Apache? There are plenty of approaches you can use instead, that will work with IIS. I would recommend ISAPI_Rewrite - the free version should be sufficient for this - which will work just fine to do the redirects you're trying to do. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270539 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
It's Microsoft's fault that .htaccess doesnât work with IIS? If you mean it doesnât work with apache on Windows... well that's your fault, not Fuc**ng Microsoft's since you are apparently doing something wrong -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So /sweepstakeName redirects to /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_ID=45 or /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_Title=SweepstakeName If you want the user to stay at /sweepstakename all the time and not be redirected, you could write out mod_rewrite lines instead. I'm not saying thats a better way of doing it, just another way. I prefer to have as few pieces of code-generated-code as possible. Also you might want to think of having an active flag, so a sweepstake could still exist and be viewed in the admin side, without actually giving users access to it. -Ryan ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? It's Microsoft's fault that .htaccess doesnât work with IIS? If you mean it doesnât work with apache on Windows... well that's your fault, not Fuc**ng Microsoft's since you are apparently doing something wrong -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So /sweepstakeName redirects to /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_ID=45 or /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_Title=SweepstakeName If you want the user to stay at /sweepstakename all the time and not be redirected, you could write out mod_rewrite lines instead. I'm not saying thats a better way of doing it, just another way. I prefer to have as few pieces of code-generated-code as possible. Also you might want to think of having an active flag, so a sweepstake could still exist and be viewed in the admin side, without actually giving users access to it. -Ryan ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Check this out: http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/ Bruce Sorge wrote: I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -- OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi AT teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270542 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. -Original Message- From: OÄuz Demirkapı [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? Check this out: http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/ Bruce Sorge wrote: I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -- OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi AT teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270544 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. And in any case, .htaccess isn't designed for redirects, it's an authentication mechanism. You can use mod_rewrite in Apache, or ISAPI_Rewrite in IIS, to do what you want. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
You did not check the link. :) It uses .htaccess files for security in IIS. :) Bruce Sorge wrote: Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. -Original Message- From: OÄuz Demirkapı [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? Check this out: http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/ Bruce Sorge wrote: I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -- OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi AT teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270546 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Dave Watts wrote: Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. Default doesn't. But there are tons of 3rd party tools to use .htaccess logic and files with IIS. And in any case, .htaccess isn't designed for redirects, it's an authentication mechanism. You can use mod_rewrite in Apache, or ISAPI_Rewrite in IIS, to do what you want. But it would be used also for redirect. It is easier than using any other redirect tool. :) Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ -- OÄuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301) 424-3903 ext 111 | Fax: +1 (301) 762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com | E-mail: oguz.demirkapi AT teratech.com Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Is this the best approach?
I have been tasked by one of my customers to create an on-line sweepstakes. They want to be able to create a sweepstakes dynamically (title of the sweepstakes, questions, answers and control types). Also, they want to be able to run one or more sweepstakes at a time, but they do not want a link to all of the sweepstakes currently running from the home page. Rather they would want the customer to go to www.sitename.com/sweepstakesname. So here is what I have devised. If anyone has a better idea, I would love to hear it. DB Tables: Sweepstakes sweepstakes_ID int Sweepstakes_Title varchar Questions Question_ID int Question text Sweepstakes_ID Answers Answer_ID int Question_ID int Control_Type varchar Control_Name varchar Answer varchar CustomerAnswers Sweepstakes_ID int Customer_ID int Question_ID int Answer text I have an admin page that flows like this: Admin enters the name of the new sweepstakes. Then they go to the question section. They select the sweepstakes that they want to add questions to, enter in the question, then they go to a page that has them enter answers and control types (radio, checkbox, text, textarea). Once they are done entering the answers for that question, they go back to a new question and then do it all over again. As far as creating a new folder for each .cfm page for the sweepstakes, I thought that when they enter the sweepstakes title, they can enter a name for the directory, then I create a directory with CFDIRECTORY tag, and use CFFILE to copy the .cfm files from a main directory to the new directory. The main sweepstakes page is index.cfm so that should work. Then, when they are done, I can show them a page that has the URL of the sweepstakes they currently created, like www.sitename.com/newcoolsweepstakes. They can then copy and paste it to marketing email to customers. So what do you all think of this? Is this a descent approach or is there a better way to do it? Thanks, -- Bruce Sorge I'm a mawg: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270237 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Is this the best approach?
Perhaps a start and end date to the Sweepstakes. Just at first glance. -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Is this the best approach? I have been tasked by one of my customers to create an on-line sweepstakes. They want to be able to create a sweepstakes dynamically (title of the sweepstakes, questions, answers and control types). Also, they want to be able to run one or more sweepstakes at a time, but they do not want a link to all of the sweepstakes currently running from the home page. Rather they would want the customer to go to www.sitename.com/sweepstakesname. So here is what I have devised. If anyone has a better idea, I would love to hear it. DB Tables: Sweepstakes sweepstakes_ID int Sweepstakes_Title varchar Questions Question_ID int Question text Sweepstakes_ID Answers Answer_ID int Question_ID int Control_Type varchar Control_Name varchar Answer varchar CustomerAnswers Sweepstakes_ID int Customer_ID int Question_ID int Answer text I have an admin page that flows like this: Admin enters the name of the new sweepstakes. Then they go to the question section. They select the sweepstakes that they want to add questions to, enter in the question, then they go to a page that has them enter answers and control types (radio, checkbox, text, textarea). Once they are done entering the answers for that question, they go back to a new question and then do it all over again. As far as creating a new folder for each .cfm page for the sweepstakes, I thought that when they enter the sweepstakes title, they can enter a name for the directory, then I create a directory with CFDIRECTORY tag, and use CFFILE to copy the .cfm files from a main directory to the new directory. The main sweepstakes page is index.cfm so that should work. Then, when they are done, I can show them a page that has the URL of the sweepstakes they currently created, like www.sitename.com/newcoolsweepstakes. They can then copy and paste it to marketing email to customers. So what do you all think of this? Is this a descent approach or is there a better way to do it? Thanks, -- Bruce Sorge I'm a mawg: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270238 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Damn. That would be a good feature to have. Thanks. On 2/20/07, Adkins, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a start and end date to the Sweepstakes. Just at first glance. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So /sweepstakeName redirects to /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_ID=45 or /sweepstakes/index.cfm?sweepstakes_Title=SweepstakeName If you want the user to stay at /sweepstakename all the time and not be redirected, you could write out mod_rewrite lines instead. I'm not saying thats a better way of doing it, just another way. I prefer to have as few pieces of code-generated-code as possible. Also you might want to think of having an active flag, so a sweepstake could still exist and be viewed in the admin side, without actually giving users access to it. -Ryan Bruce Sorge wrote: I have been tasked by one of my customers to create an on-line sweepstakes. They want to be able to create a sweepstakes dynamically (title of the sweepstakes, questions, answers and control types). Also, they want to be able to run one or more sweepstakes at a time, but they do not want a link to all of the sweepstakes currently running from the home page. Rather they would want the customer to go to www.sitename.com/sweepstakesname. So here is what I have devised. If anyone has a better idea, I would love to hear it. DB Tables: Sweepstakes sweepstakes_ID int Sweepstakes_Title varchar Questions Question_ID int Question text Sweepstakes_ID Answers Answer_ID int Question_ID int Control_Type varchar Control_Name varchar Answer varchar CustomerAnswers Sweepstakes_ID int Customer_ID int Question_ID int Answer text I have an admin page that flows like this: Admin enters the name of the new sweepstakes. Then they go to the question section. They select the sweepstakes that they want to add questions to, enter in the question, then they go to a page that has them enter answers and control types (radio, checkbox, text, textarea). Once they are done entering the answers for that question, they go back to a new question and then do it all over again. As far as creating a new folder for each .cfm page for the sweepstakes, I thought that when they enter the sweepstakes title, they can enter a name for the directory, then I create a directory with CFDIRECTORY tag, and use CFFILE to copy the .cfm files from a main directory to the new directory. The main sweepstakes page is index.cfm so that should work. Then, when they are done, I can show them a page that has the URL of the sweepstakes they currently created, like www.sitename.com/newcoolsweepstakes. They can then copy and paste it to marketing email to customers. So what do you all think of this? Is this a descent approach or is there a better way to do it? Thanks, ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270243 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going very badly with the sponsors being financially ruined in the end and being threatened with the possibility of prison time in the process. Plus whatever your client needs to do to conduct his sweepstakes legally may very well influence your coding. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going very badly with the sponsors being financially ruined in the end and being threatened with the possibility of prison time in the process. Plus whatever your client needs to do to conduct his sweepstakes legally may very well influence your coding. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
Ryan's right, and I'll go so far as to say what he's described to you is a *much* better way to create new sweepstakes. Think about it: once you start creating a bunch of subdirectories and copying .cfm templates into them, at some point in the future you may find yourself maintaining them all too and eventually wishing that you hadn't created such a mess of redundancy for yourself to wade through and try to keep straight. So you'll almost certainly be much better off using one code set for all your sweepstakes, providing that the sweepstakes are going to resemble each other in their functioning which it sounds like you are planning to do. There are a number of ways to do it too, not necessarily with .htaccess mods either. I would think about using a single /sweepstakes/ subdirectory containing a custom .cfm landing page for each individual sweepstakes event (which your client is going to want anyway) so that each landing page could contain a unique Sweepstakes_ID in a hidden form field that gets passed from one page to the next. Less cleanly you could pass a URL.Sweepstakes_ID between pages, or better, you might even want to set a cookie with a Sweepstakes_ID that doesn't get deleted until the user finishes the questions. There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. The only reason to NOT do it with one code set might be if you planned to use your Admin functionality to actually write out static files so that your users working their way through the questions wouldn't be hitting the database at all or hardly at all (you could accumulate all their answers in hidden form fields or in a cookie without hitting the database until the very end, just once). You could get away with using a not-very-powerful server and database doing it that way if you had to (MS Access on a 500Mhz shared server for example) but if you have a fast dedicated web server and any version of MSSQL running on a second machine then you ought to keep it all dynamic, the way CF was meant to be. ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Is this the best approach?
A couple of other thoughts: 1) Separate landing pages for each sweepstakes gives you the opportunity to name them with keywords to benefit your clients' SEO. So http://mysite.com/sweepstakes/win-a-2008-mustang.cfm is significantly better in Google's eyes than http://mysite.com/sweepstakes/index.cfm, for example. 2) It sounds like the functionality you're intending to build to construct and operate your sweepstakes is very similar to the functionality needed to build surveys, and there's code already out there for surveys. I remember looking at the survey engine at http://www.activefeedback.com/af/ow/order1.cfm a few years ago and being quite impressed with the Admin functionality that lets you very easily create questions and choose response types (probably the $495 Survey Engine 2.0 Enterprise without the library of forms would work well for you). Unfortunately it looks like you can no longer download a trial version to see for yourself, but they've got some pretty good demos so you can see the end result anyway, I couldn't find a demo for the Admin functionality which is even better. The point is you may not have to start from scratch if you do your homework, there may even be free code available for CF surveys that would save you lots of coding time. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270286 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
Morning everyone, I thought I'd do a bit of asking around as I don't seem to be able to find much about this online. I'm curious about how others manage things like updates, testing and release management on a daily basis across multiple instances of CF running on more than one server. We've just started a migration project to move all our applications up from version 5 to MX 7.0 and to load balance everything across 4 Win2003 servers (2 for testing purposes and 2 as our live servers). I've now been given the task of looking at new procedures on managing these servers and the way that our team should control these for the points above. I know you could probably write a couple of books on this subject but I thought I'd just ask for people's experiences and find out what they found to be the best way of managing their code and servers. Cheers, James ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266593 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
I know you could probably write a couple of books on this subject but I thought I'd just ask for people's experiences and find out what they found to be the best way of managing their code and servers. We install an SVN client (Tortoise) on the servers and all our sites are deployed to the servers using a checkout and subsequent updates are done via the update processes. Version control of over 70 sites is now a breeze. We never miss a file when uploading and we have the ability to roll back to previous versions if required. Having spent hours doing deployments to clusters in the past, performing an update via SVN is just a breeze. In essence, the deployment methodology works in the same manner for our local dev environments, test server and the production servers. It's quick, simple, cheap and effective. I can't say much more about it really. The only catch is you need to be running your own servers to do this. Paul ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
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Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach
James Buckingham wrote: I thought I'd do a bit of asking around as I don't seem to be able to find much about this online. I'm curious about how others manage things like updates, testing and release management on a daily basis across multiple instances of CF running on more than one server. We build EAR files in the build environment and move them from there to testing, QA and production. The configuration comes from properties files that are local to the server, instance or even application so typically we do not have to do any configuration on the server for an update (only when it is a feature release). We just shut the instance down, remove the old EAR file, drop the new one in and restart the instance with a batch file that in the process removes all the temp files of the previous EAR file. Typically takes 1 minute per instance, but in clusters we do the instances 5 minutes apart to allow the sessions to sync before we do the next instance. Someday I will automate this completely (the build environment is already automated), but for now we do the upgrades and checks manually. Jochem ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266597 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Best Approach
Hi there I am currently developing a business application (business directory) for a specialized section of the medical profession in Sydney (Australia). As part of the directory people who wish to advertise and have their details included on the site they are able to provide us with description of services etc. Each person has been allowed to submit photos (Min 1 and Max 8) which can appear next to their details. I have developed the form etc to enable details of each advertiser to be entered. What I am struggling to come to grips with yet is - what is the best way to allow the input form to cater for the addition of photos for each listing. When a user is adding photos for a listing I would like them to search trough pictures so they can select photos to have displayed with their listing. Any ideas would be appreciated. Regards Pete ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265946 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Best Approach for Survey Question
ALWAYS use separate columns. I've been bit in the a$$ just about every time I tried the comma-delim list approach. Another plus is it's really easy to return an Excel file directly to those doing the tabulating - which they seem to like - without bugging me for the latest results 3 times a day. -Original Message- From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach for Survey Question I am trying to determine the best way to structure a series of survey questions, keeping in mind that I need to make it easy to use for the respondent, easy to code, and easy to tabulate the data later on. I can structure the following typical question as a single set of checkboxes: Q5: Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): [ ] Sciences [ ] Management/Business [ ] Law [ ] Communications [ ] Other Using a single datafield for the question, I then would need to parse a comma-delimited list to separated the answers. - or - I can use a series of radio buttons: Q5:Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): A. Sciences [ ] B. Management/Business [ ] C. Law [ ] D. Communications [ ] E. Other [ ] If I use a separate data field (5 in this case) for each sub-part of the question, then it is easy to tabulate results for each part. Recommendations appreciated. Richard Colman ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228132 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Best Approach for Survey Question
I once made a form build that could be used for pretty much anything, profiles, questionnaires, anything that required a form. It was constructed something like thus:- Table: questions questionID int primarykey Questionvarchar Fieldtype varchar Requiredbit default(0) Sizeint Maxlength int Validation varchar Multiplebit default(0) Table: answers answerIDint primarykey questionId int Answer Table: Options optionIDint primarykey Optiontext varchar Optionvalue varchar DefaultSelected BIT default(0) So then you just loop over the questions, creating the specifield form field types with the specified attributes. For select lists, multi radios or checkboxes, you just add items to the options table. E.G. cfquery name=questions Select * from questions /cfquery cfquery name=options Select * from questions /cfquery cfloop query=questions cfset QUID = questionID cfif fieldtype=select select name=Q#QID# #IIF(multiple, 'multiple', '')# size=#size# cfloop query=options cfif questionID = QID option value=#optionvalue# #IIF(SefaultSelected, 'Selected','')##optiontext# /cfif /cfloop /select cfelseif fieldtype is text input type=text name=Q#QID# maxlength=#maxlength# size=#size## /cfif Get the idea? Then when the form is submitted you simply save the answers in the answers table for the specified QID. -- Russ -Original Message- From: Dave Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 January 2006 15:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach for Survey Question ALWAYS use separate columns. I've been bit in the a$$ just about every time I tried the comma-delim list approach. Another plus is it's really easy to return an Excel file directly to those doing the tabulating - which they seem to like - without bugging me for the latest results 3 times a day. -Original Message- From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach for Survey Question I am trying to determine the best way to structure a series of survey questions, keeping in mind that I need to make it easy to use for the respondent, easy to code, and easy to tabulate the data later on. I can structure the following typical question as a single set of checkboxes: Q5: Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): [ ] Sciences [ ] Management/Business [ ] Law [ ] Communications [ ] Other Using a single datafield for the question, I then would need to parse a comma-delimited list to separated the answers. - or - I can use a series of radio buttons: Q5:Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): A. Sciences [ ] B. Management/Business [ ] C. Law [ ] D. Communications [ ] E. Other [ ] If I use a separate data field (5 in this case) for each sub-part of the question, then it is easy to tabulate results for each part. Recommendations appreciated. Richard Colman ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228138 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Best Approach for Survey Question
I thought that when I made it the first time :-) Russ -Original Message- From: Rick Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 January 2006 17:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Best Approach for Survey Question This is a very cool approach to doing it. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach for Survey Question I once made a form build that could be used for pretty much anything, profiles, questionnaires, anything that required a form. It was constructed something like thus:- Table: questions questionID int primarykey Questionvarchar Fieldtype varchar Requiredbit default(0) Sizeint Maxlength int Validation varchar Multiplebit default(0) Table: answers answerIDint primarykey questionId int Answer Table: Options optionIDint primarykey Optiontext varchar Optionvalue varchar DefaultSelected BIT default(0) So then you just loop over the questions, creating the specifield form field types with the specified attributes. For select lists, multi radios or checkboxes, you just add items to the options table. E.G. cfquery name=questions Select * from questions /cfquery cfquery name=options Select * from questions /cfquery cfloop query=questions cfset QUID = questionID cfif fieldtype=select select name=Q#QID# #IIF(multiple, 'multiple', '')# size=#size# cfloop query=options cfif questionID = QID option value=#optionvalue# #IIF(SefaultSelected, 'Selected','')##optiontext# /cfif /cfloop /select cfelseif fieldtype is text input type=text name=Q#QID# maxlength=#maxlength# size=#size## /cfif Get the idea? Then when the form is submitted you simply save the answers in the answers table for the specified QID. -- Russ -Original Message- From: Dave Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 January 2006 15:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach for Survey Question ALWAYS use separate columns. I've been bit in the a$$ just about every time I tried the comma-delim list approach. Another plus is it's really easy to return an Excel file directly to those doing the tabulating - which they seem to like - without bugging me for the latest results 3 times a day. -Original Message- From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach for Survey Question I am trying to determine the best way to structure a series of survey questions, keeping in mind that I need to make it easy to use for the respondent, easy to code, and easy to tabulate the data later on. I can structure the following typical question as a single set of checkboxes: Q5: Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): [ ] Sciences [ ] Management/Business [ ] Law [ ] Communications [ ] Other Using a single datafield for the question, I then would need to parse a comma-delimited list to separated the answers. - or - I can use a series of radio buttons: Q5:Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): A. Sciences [ ] B. Management/Business [ ] C. Law [ ] D. Communications [ ] E. Other [ ] If I use a separate data field (5 in this case) for each sub-part of the question, then it is easy to tabulate results for each part. Recommendations appreciated. Richard Colman ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228141 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Best Approach for Survey Question
I am trying to determine the best way to structure a series of survey questions, keeping in mind that I need to make it easy to use for the respondent, easy to code, and easy to tabulate the data later on. I can structure the following typical question as a single set of checkboxes: Q5: Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): [ ] Sciences [ ] Management/Business [ ] Law [ ] Communications [ ] Other Using a single datafield for the question, I then would need to parse a comma-delimited list to separated the answers. - or - I can use a series of radio buttons: Q5:Please select schools that provide interns (check all that apply): A. Sciences [ ] B. Management/Business [ ] C. Law [ ] D. Communications [ ] E. Other [ ] If I use a separate data field (5 in this case) for each sub-part of the question, then it is easy to tabulate results for each part. Recommendations appreciated. Richard Colman ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228118 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Best Approach for Survey Question
Not quite sure what your question is... whether or not you should use a comma delimited list of items or a separate record for each? If that is your question most definitely a separate record for each question AND answer Here's a script I use for building the necessary tables for a survey app I did... It can house multiple surveys, multiple questions per survey, and multiple answers per question. At the 'question' level, you define the form field type to use for that particular question. Eg... radio (single answer), checkbox (multiple answers), text, textarea... The backend has everything you'd need... including reports and it all works great with this database schema. There is only one type of answer that I haven't put in it and that is a question with multiple answers but each of those answers would have multiple answers themselves... It would be used for rating each answer to one question. Something like... Rate These Answers: One [bad] [good] [great] Two [bad] [good] [great] Three [bad] [good] [great] Email me offlist if you'd like to see the app and its administrative tools in action. == srv_globals.cfm = cfscript request.surveydsn = surveyapp; request.tblprefix = tbl_survey_; request.debugon = yes; request.imageroot = http://#cgi.server_name#/images;; request.webroot = http://#cgi.server_name#/surveys;; /cfscript === msaccess_tbl_script.cfm == cfinclude template=surveys/srv_globals.cfm cfoutput cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#as ( answerid counter primary key , questionid number , surveyid number , answer text(250) , fieldtype text(50) , sortid number ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#as was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#as already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#qs ( questionid counter primary key , surveyid number , question memo , fieldtype text(50) , sortid number ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#qs was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#qs already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#faqs ( faqid counter primary key , faqquestion memo , faqanswer memo , sortid number ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#faqs was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#faqs already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#results ( resultid counter primary key , submitid number , surveyid number , questionid number , answer memo ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#results was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#results already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#submits ( submitid counter primary key , surveyid number , dateadded datetime , fname text(20) , lname text(20) , address text(150) , address2 text(150) , city text(50) , state text(20) , zip text(15) , comments memo , emailaddr text(150) , contactme number ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#submits was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#submits already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry cftry cfquery datasource=#request.surveydsn# create table #request.tblprefix#surveys ( surveyid counter primary key , surveyname text(250) , activesurvey number , dateadded datetime , confirmation memo ) /cfquery div#request.tblprefix#surveys was created successfully/div cfcatch type=any div style=color:##ff;#request.tblprefix#surveys already exists/div /cfcatch /cftry /cfoutput ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228120 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Best Approach?
What is the best approach to searching a LARGE segment of text for each instance of FONT-FAMILY and changing the actual value of it to ARIAL? Here is an example of the text before it is converted: P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1inSPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: VERDANATESTING THIS OUT/SPAN Now the catch is, the font-family could be any font, but all needs to be changed to one standard font. Also there are variations of fonts such as: Arial (W1), that should be just ARIAL. Without doing a Search and Replace for each and every variation of each font (which is a nightmare to even consider), I had thought of doing a search for FONT-FAMILY then finding the end of the value by either a single quote, double quote, semi-colon or even the greater than symbol () and then replacing it that way, but it seems to be more cumbersome than it should be. Any ideas on improving that?? Thanks! ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220678 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Best Approach?
Just a shot but see how this works. #rereplacenocase(str, (font-family:)(.*?)(;||)|\), \1arial\3, all)# It turned this font-family:verdana;font-family:arial(w1);font-family:sans-seriffont-family :sans-serif into this font-family:arial;font-family:arial;font-family:arialfont-family:arial but of course thats not a real-world test it only works if the name of the font ends with on of these... ; ) And puts the ending char back in place except when it is a ) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Adkins, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach? What is the best approach to searching a LARGE segment of text for each instance of FONT-FAMILY and changing the actual value of it to ARIAL? Here is an example of the text before it is converted: P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1inSPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: VERDANATESTING THIS OUT/SPAN Now the catch is, the font-family could be any font, but all needs to be changed to one standard font. Also there are variations of fonts such as: Arial (W1), that should be just ARIAL. Without doing a Search and Replace for each and every variation of each font (which is a nightmare to even consider), I had thought of doing a search for FONT-FAMILY then finding the end of the value by either a single quote, double quote, semi-colon or even the greater than symbol () and then replacing it that way, but it seems to be more cumbersome than it should be. Any ideas on improving that?? Thanks! ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220715 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
best approach - appending fields in recordset
hello folks, I have a situation where the database was designed (limitation in the db unfortunately) so that if a user wants to enter a lot of text/content, they would have to add a new line for every entry that doesn't fit. Think textarea but only your using multiple input type text =( so when I pull up the query (which is correct), it displays all the lines/rowsof content for that field entered. example: courseID courseDescription (varchar 80) so if the description was more than 80 chars, then they would have to add another line. if the description was 350 chars, then 5 lines, etc. so, how would you approach this where I could append the results from the courseDescription field to make it all look like one? thanks, Lawrence [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
With a one-to-many relationship like this, you might want courseID and courseDescription to be in seperate tables. You could then join ID and Description to bring back a list of descriptions, grouping the descriptions together to make it look like one description. Your Description table would probably have to have some type of ordering value in it though so you'd know how to construct the descriptions in the correct order. - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: best approach - appending fields in recordset hello folks, I have a situation where the database was designed (limitation in the db unfortunately) so that if a user wants to enter a lot of text/content, they would have to add a new line for every entry that doesn't fit. Think textarea but only your using multiple input type text =( so when I pull up the query (which is correct), it displays all the lines/rowsof content for that field entered. example: courseID courseDescription (varchar 80) so if the description was more than 80 chars, then they would have to add another line. if the description was 350 chars, then 5 lines, etc. so, how would you approach this where I could append the results from the courseDescription field to make it all look like one? thanks, Lawrence [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
the description field is on a separate table. the problem is that field type which is only char type not ntext/memo which would make it easier to order them properly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/20/2004 9:29:33 AM With a one-to-many relationship like this, you might want courseID and courseDescription to be in seperate tables. You could then join ID and Description to bring back a list of descriptions, grouping the descriptions together to make it look like one description. Your Description table would probably have to have some type of ordering value in it though so you'd know how to construct the descriptions in the correct order. - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: best approach - appending fields in recordset hello folks, I have a situation where the database was designed (limitation in the db unfortunately) so that if a user wants to enter a lot of text/content, they would have to add a new line for every entry that doesn't fit. Think textarea but only your using multiple input type text =( so when I pull up the query (which is correct), it displays all the lines/rowsof content for that field entered. example: courseID courseDescription (varchar 80) so if the description was more than 80 chars, then they would have to add another line. if the description was 350 chars, then 5 lines, etc. so, how would you approach this where I could append the results from the courseDescription field to make it all look like one? thanks, Lawrence [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
So, if you've got 10 description entries that all go together somehow to form the overall description for one course, how do you know in which order they are supposed to go? Which sentence comes first, second, etc? Wouldn't you need some sort of ordering field to do this on the description table? - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset the description field is on a separate table. the problem is that field type which is only char type not ntext/memo which would make it easier to order them properly. snip [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
yeah... that's right... my best guess is that I'll sort/order them asc fashion... first line entered (id 1), second line (id 2)... i'll see what I come up with [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/20/2004 12:43:59 PM So, if you've got 10 description entries that all go together somehow to form the overall description for one course, how do you know in which order they are supposed to go? Which sentence comes first, second, etc? Wouldn't you need some sort of ordering field to do this on the description table? - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset the description field is on a separate table. the problem is that field type which is only char type not ntext/memo which would make it easier to order them properly. snip [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
assuming you have this, I'd order teh content by courseid.Then use the group attribute of cfoutput to loop thgough all these descriptions outputing them.This will basically do COURSEID DESCR1DESCR2DESCR3..DESCRN format as desired Doug - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:43:59 -0500 Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, if you've got 10 description entries that all go together somehow to form the overall description for one course, how do you know in which order they are supposed to go? Which sentence comes first, second, etc? Wouldn't you need some sort of ordering field to do this on the description table? - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset the description field is on a separate table. the problem is that field type which is only char type not ntext/memo which would make it easier to order them properly. snip [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset
yeah those were my thoughts too... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/20/2004 12:50:58 PM assuming you have this, I'd order teh content by courseid.Then use the group attribute of cfoutput to loop thgough all these descriptions outputing them.This will basically do COURSEID DESCR1DESCR2DESCR3..DESCRN format as desired Doug - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:43:59 -0500 Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, if you've got 10 description entries that all go together somehow to form the overall description for one course, how do you know in which order they are supposed to go? Which sentence comes first, second, etc? Wouldn't you need some sort of ordering field to do this on the description table? - Original Message - From: Lawrence Ng To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: Re: best approach - appending fields in recordset the description field is on a separate table. the problem is that field type which is only char type not ntext/memo which would make it easier to order them properly. snip [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
If you put a picture up, just make sure it has a watermark all over it. If you don't they will find a way of getting to the picture. As to storing their selections. Seriously consider storing their current selection in a DB, storing an id in a cookie. So that should they be building an order over time, this information isn't lost should their machine crash or something. Also assume some MOST people want to shop by searching the description of each photo (i.e. they only want pictures of one particular player/team/car/animal/pvc/mud wrestling etc ;) ). If I came to your site and wanted a picture, I do not want to look through 1000s of pictures 25 at a time. I would also like to browse by event (navigating through sport types), but mostly I would do keyword searches. -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2003 05:08 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image... Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent people from copying the image who would be too dumb to print it anyway. You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get an image from the cache, or get its address directly from the source page, or even just capture the image on the screen. Or just turn off JavaScript. ;^) Jim Davis ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Yes, the intention is to use Efflare's CFX_ImageCR Tag or CFX_jpg Tag to create separate files for the display images. They won't have access to the files that we'll print from... Rick -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... The JavaScript function will prevent right clicking, however the image will still be in the browser cache and can be saved from there. Instead of resizing the true image, use a utility to create a thumbnail for browser display, or alternatively display the images via Java in a popup window. You can obtain Anfy Java (intended for special effects) and create the code to display via Java which cannot be saved. With a little effort you can create a photo display on a revolving cube. http://www.anfyteam.com/panjava.html or even display them in flash. == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1 and all databases. ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 Suggested corporate Anti-virus policy: http://www.dshield.org/antivirus.pdf == If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! - Original Message - From: Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:17 PM Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... | I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking | and saving the image...the onscreen display image would only be | a 320 pixel wide image, so it wouldn't be very good for printing and framing | anyway, | but the javascript function will prevent saving of the image. | | Probably none of the people we'd be selling to...football parents, soccer | parents, etc., | would know how to search the temporary Internet files to find the image | either. | | Most of the images will be processed through Photoshop, whether I take them | or my | partner takes them, so we could add a watermark manually. | | I'll probably check into CFX_stampImage, also. | | What do you think about the approach of using an array to store selections | from each | page and then dumping the array contents onscreen for review, then into a db | upon checkout... | | Rick | | | | | -Original Message- | From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:29 PM | To: CF-Talk | Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... | | | Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all | over the images on | the screen to stop people just printing off their images. | | Pretty good point. | | If you produce the images yourself, you can use PaintShopPro | for this, or PhotoShop or any image editor. | If you or users upload their photos themselves, look at | CFX_stampImage at: | http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm?p=hf | | | ~ | | | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 | Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 | Unsubscribe: | http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 | | Get the mailserver that powers this list at | http://www.coolfusion.com | | | | | ~ | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Thanks for the feedback, Claude... Rick -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image... Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent people from copying the image who would be too dumb to print it anyway. You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get an image from the cache, or get its address directly from the source page, or even just capture the image on the screen. the onscreen display image would only be a 320 pixel wide image, This is definitely a much better security. I'll probably check into CFX_stampImage, also. While you pass by, also check for CF_picture frame, it could add a plus to your presentation. What do you think about the approach of using an array to store selections from each page and then dumping the array contents onscreen for review, then into a db upon checkout... It could be an array or just using variables in the form scope. You could also look at techniques used by some shoping cart systems. There are a couple in the CF gallery. ~ | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Thanks for the feedback Adam... As to storing their selections. Seriously consider storing their current selection in a DB, storing an id in a cookie. So that should they be building an order over time, this information isn't lost should their machine crash or something. You mean, after each page's selections, insert that part of the order into the database, so that their selections are still in the cart if/when they come agan to continue? Then, once they move on to checkout, pull the order parts from the db? Or, I guess, instead of inserting a separate row after each page of photos selected is processed, just update the row that was first created after they made their first selections on a page...using the cookie ID you referred to as a key in the db to match up the current user with their order in the db? Only problem I can see with using a cookie is if the user usually placed orders from a single machine, got used to the system keeping track of multliple ordering sessions, then decided one day to go over to a friend's house in the middle of placing an order, and tried to continue from there...they would find their previous selections unaccessible because the cookie wouldn't exist on the machine at their friend's house... I see pros and cons to using the cookie to enable multiple session order placement... If they had to login, that problem would be solved, but we don't want to require people to login... I haven't placed content in cookies before (other than what the system does for session management)... What type of ID would be good for storing in the cookie? Also, searching by category, event, and keyword are part of the plans for the shopping experience. There would probably be only about 100 photos of a typical event, such as a football game...so looking through all the photos, especially when they are photos of the person looking through them, wouldn't be too much of a hassle and time-consuming... Rick -Original Message- From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... If you put a picture up, just make sure it has a watermark all over it. If you don't they will find a way of getting to the picture. As to storing their selections. Seriously consider storing their current selection in a DB, storing an id in a cookie. So that should they be building an order over time, this information isn't lost should their machine crash or something. Also assume some MOST people want to shop by searching the description of each photo (i.e. they only want pictures of one particular player/team/car/animal/pvc/mud wrestling etc ;) ). If I came to your site and wanted a picture, I do not want to look through 1000s of pictures 25 at a time. I would also like to browse by event (navigating through sport types), but mostly I would do keyword searches. -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2003 05:08 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image... Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent people from copying the image who would be too dumb to print it anyway. You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get an image from the cache, or get its address directly from the source page, or even just capture the image on the screen. Or just turn off JavaScript. ;^) Jim Davis ~ | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
-Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2003 13:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... Also, searching by category, event, and keyword are part of the plans for the shopping experience. There would probably be only about 100 photos of a typical event, such as a football game...so looking through all the photos, especially when they are photos of the person looking through them, wouldn't be too much of a hassle and time-consuming... Wanna bet! Think about doing this on a 33kbps modem. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Hi, all. I'm setting up a site for users to order photos... They won't be purchasing online, just specifiying which photos they want to have printed...then an email will be sent to the user after placing their order...and an email will be sent to a local photo shop who will handle the printing and payments. I was wondering about the best way to handle the data... The flow will be like this... - User views multiple photos on page... - Each photo has checkboxes for options like 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and associated price. -The user will check boxes for various options for photos on each page. - The user will go to another page to view more photos and make selections. - User checks list of all they're order and total cost is calculated and presented. The biggest issue to the best way to handle the info... - First, I'm considering making all checkbox names dynamic, such as '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''4x6', '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''5x7', etc... Would that work for making each checkbox unique? - Secondly, I need to store the selections...should I do this in an array, including PhotoName, Size, Price...then just output the array contents for review, then into the order emails when checkout occurs? Thanks for anyone's time and insight...I haven't put together a shopping cart yet, so I just want to make sure I'm headed in the right direction with the coding before I start... Thanks, Rick Rick Faircloth WhiteStoneMedia.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Firstly are these pictures specific to them? Or are they along the lines of IMDB.com's pictures of celebs? Also how many pictures are involved? Assuming sombeody sent you a roll of film (so around 36 pictures), would it not be better to present the user with all the images on one page and (after they have default selected a size.) Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all over the images on the screen to stop people just printing off their images. Also what if a customer wanted multiple copies of a picture all different sizes? I would probably go for a quantity box for each size which defaults to 1 of each 4x6. I would probably store the order away in a db against their username. I would assume if they were personal photos the person would have to log in. Anyway lots to think about. -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2003 22:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach to Storing Selections... Hi, all. I'm setting up a site for users to order photos... They won't be purchasing online, just specifiying which photos they want to have printed...then an email will be sent to the user after placing their order...and an email will be sent to a local photo shop who will handle the printing and payments. I was wondering about the best way to handle the data... The flow will be like this... - User views multiple photos on page... - Each photo has checkboxes for options like 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and associated price. -The user will check boxes for various options for photos on each page. - The user will go to another page to view more photos and make selections. - User checks list of all they're order and total cost is calculated and presented. The biggest issue to the best way to handle the info... - First, I'm considering making all checkbox names dynamic, such as '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''4x6', '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''5x7', etc... Would that work for making each checkbox unique? - Secondly, I need to store the selections...should I do this in an array, including PhotoName, Size, Price...then just output the array contents for review, then into the order emails when checkout occurs? Thanks for anyone's time and insight...I haven't put together a shopping cart yet, so I just want to make sure I'm headed in the right direction with the coding before I start... Thanks, Rick Rick Faircloth WhiteStoneMedia.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Hi, Adam and thanks for the reply... These are photos that I and a partner will be taking of sporting events, etc. There could possibly be about 75-100 photos per game to be uploaded. 100 photos is a lot to display on a single page...so I was thinking about having them view photos 25 at a time, to keep downloading shorter for dial-up access, which most will be on. With that in mind, I'll need to store the selections, (thanks for the tip on handling multiples copies of a photo) some way that will maintain selections between pages...once the order is complete, then the info will go into a database. I figure an array will be most appropriate...is that what most shopping carts use to store info until checkout? Rick -Original Message- From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... Firstly are these pictures specific to them? Or are they along the lines of IMDB.com's pictures of celebs? Also how many pictures are involved? Assuming sombeody sent you a roll of film (so around 36 pictures), would it not be better to present the user with all the images on one page and (after they have default selected a size.) Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all over the images on the screen to stop people just printing off their images. Also what if a customer wanted multiple copies of a picture all different sizes? I would probably go for a quantity box for each size which defaults to 1 of each 4x6. I would probably store the order away in a db against their username. I would assume if they were personal photos the person would have to log in. Anyway lots to think about. -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2003 22:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: Best Approach to Storing Selections... Hi, all. I'm setting up a site for users to order photos... They won't be purchasing online, just specifiying which photos they want to have printed...then an email will be sent to the user after placing their order...and an email will be sent to a local photo shop who will handle the printing and payments. I was wondering about the best way to handle the data... The flow will be like this... - User views multiple photos on page... - Each photo has checkboxes for options like 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and associated price. -The user will check boxes for various options for photos on each page. - The user will go to another page to view more photos and make selections. - User checks list of all they're order and total cost is calculated and presented. The biggest issue to the best way to handle the info... - First, I'm considering making all checkbox names dynamic, such as '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''4x6', '#PhotoQuery.PhotoName#''5x7', etc... Would that work for making each checkbox unique? - Secondly, I need to store the selections...should I do this in an array, including PhotoName, Size, Price...then just output the array contents for review, then into the order emails when checkout occurs? Thanks for anyone's time and insight...I haven't put together a shopping cart yet, so I just want to make sure I'm headed in the right direction with the coding before I start... Thanks, Rick Rick Faircloth WhiteStoneMedia.com ~ | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all over the images on the screen to stop people just printing off their images. Pretty good point. If you produce the images yourself, you can use PaintShopPro for this, or PhotoShop or any image editor. If you or users upload their photos themselves, look at CFX_stampImage at: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm?p=hf ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
Or just display thumbnails on the screen (with watermark) == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1 and all databases. ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 Suggested corporate Anti-virus policy: http://www.dshield.org/antivirus.pdf == If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! - Original Message - From: Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:29 PM Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... | Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all over the images on | the screen to stop people just printing off their images. | | Pretty good point. | | If you produce the images yourself, you can use PaintShopPro for this, or PhotoShop or any image editor. | If you or users upload their photos themselves, look at CFX_stampImage at: | http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm?p=hf | | | ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image...the onscreen display image would only be a 320 pixel wide image, so it wouldn't be very good for printing and framing anyway, but the javascript function will prevent saving of the image. Probably none of the people we'd be selling to...football parents, soccer parents, etc., would know how to search the temporary Internet files to find the image either. Most of the images will be processed through Photoshop, whether I take them or my partner takes them, so we could add a watermark manually. I'll probably check into CFX_stampImage, also. What do you think about the approach of using an array to store selections from each page and then dumping the array contents onscreen for review, then into a db upon checkout... Rick -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all over the images on the screen to stop people just printing off their images. Pretty good point. If you produce the images yourself, you can use PaintShopPro for this, or PhotoShop or any image editor. If you or users upload their photos themselves, look at CFX_stampImage at: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm?p=hf ~ | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
The JavaScript function will prevent right clicking, however the image will still be in the browser cache and can be saved from there. Instead of resizing the true image, use a utility to create a thumbnail for browser display, or alternatively display the images via Java in a popup window. You can obtain Anfy Java (intended for special effects) and create the code to display via Java which cannot be saved. With a little effort you can create a photo display on a revolving cube. http://www.anfyteam.com/panjava.html or even display them in flash. == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1 and all databases. ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 Suggested corporate Anti-virus policy: http://www.dshield.org/antivirus.pdf == If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! - Original Message - From: Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:17 PM Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections... | I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking | and saving the image...the onscreen display image would only be | a 320 pixel wide image, so it wouldn't be very good for printing and framing | anyway, | but the javascript function will prevent saving of the image. | | Probably none of the people we'd be selling to...football parents, soccer | parents, etc., | would know how to search the temporary Internet files to find the image | either. | | Most of the images will be processed through Photoshop, whether I take them | or my | partner takes them, so we could add a watermark manually. | | I'll probably check into CFX_stampImage, also. | | What do you think about the approach of using an array to store selections | from each | page and then dumping the array contents onscreen for review, then into a db | upon checkout... | | Rick | | | | | -Original Message- | From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:29 PM | To: CF-Talk | Subject: Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections... | | | Also make damm sure you put some sort of watermark all | over the images on | the screen to stop people just printing off their images. | | Pretty good point. | | If you produce the images yourself, you can use PaintShopPro | for this, or PhotoShop or any image editor. | If you or users upload their photos themselves, look at | CFX_stampImage at: | http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm?p=hf | | | ~ | | | Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 | Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 | Unsubscribe: | http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=708.628.4 | | Get the mailserver that powers this list at | http://www.coolfusion.com | | | | | ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
Re: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image... Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent people from copying the image who would be too dumb to print it anyway. You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get an image from the cache, or get its address directly from the source page, or even just capture the image on the screen. the onscreen display image would only be a 320 pixel wide image, This is definitely a much better security. I'll probably check into CFX_stampImage, also. While you pass by, also check for CF_picture frame, it could add a plus to your presentation. What do you think about the approach of using an array to store selections from each page and then dumping the array contents onscreen for review, then into a db upon checkout... It could be an array or just using variables in the form scope. You could also look at techniques used by some shoping cart systems. There are a couple in the CF gallery. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow right-clicking and saving the image... Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent people from copying the image who would be too dumb to print it anyway. You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get an image from the cache, or get its address directly from the source page, or even just capture the image on the screen. Or just turn off JavaScript. ;^) Jim Davis ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
Best Approach: Populating Exchange Server data
Here's what I got: An exchange server with 240 mailboxes. I want to use the exchange server as the source of Human Resource related items such as org charts. Visio 2000 has ODBS connection and a wizard to generate the org charts. Problem is there is a bunch of data entry required (and I don't want to do it ... heh heh). ??? How can I give someone else Win95 client on Novell / NT network access to Exchange Server 5.5SP?3? administration to update the mailbox records. I haven't seen a remote administration client for Exchange Server, does this exist? Can I use LDAP? Next I want to "publish" the company directory to the Intranet and (maybe) Internet site. What is the best way, and quickest ways to do this. LDAP? Also they have IIS with ASP installed, but not Cold Fusion. I have recommended CF, but I am curious also to learn ASP approaches to the same problems. Thanks Eric Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
