Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
Hi I would be interested to hear if this is feasible in Coldfusion or would it be better delivered via Sharepoint. I have a list of documents, as part of an induction program that a user must read from our Intranet site. How can I in Coldfusion check that a document has been opened? Once read the user has to click a checkbox that they have read the document. (Similar to an e-learning course website) Next to this document it will display 'Read' with this information stored in the database for that user. If the user has opened the doc and not clicked the checkbox it will display 'Doc Opened' next to that document on the webpage, and if they have not opened it, it will display 'Not Read'. Any ideas on the right approach for this? Or am I making this more complicated than it should be? I would be interested to hear your views Kind Regards, Ian ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316600 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
One way, serve the document up with a .cfm page and track it that way. Adrian -Original Message- From: Ian Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 December 2008 11:21 To: cf-talk Subject: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion? Hi I would be interested to hear if this is feasible in Coldfusion or would it be better delivered via Sharepoint. I have a list of documents, as part of an induction program that a user must read from our Intranet site. How can I in Coldfusion check that a document has been opened? Once read the user has to click a checkbox that they have read the document. (Similar to an e-learning course website) Next to this document it will display 'Read' with this information stored in the database for that user. If the user has opened the doc and not clicked the checkbox it will display 'Doc Opened' next to that document on the webpage, and if they have not opened it, it will display 'Not Read'. Any ideas on the right approach for this? Or am I making this more complicated than it should be? I would be interested to hear your views Kind Regards, Ian ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316601 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
How can I in Coldfusion check that a document has been opened? Once read the user has to click a checkbox that they have read the document. (Similar to an e-learning course website) Yeah, my first thought would be to use cfcontent to serve up the document in a .cfm, and log it to your db right before the cfcontent. Sounds easy enough... Will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
Thanks All Can this (loading word, pdf docs in cfcontent) be done in CF 7? Any code snippets about? Also the users would need to be logged in for the application to track who has read what documents etc With Coldfusion can you pass through the Active Directory/Windows login details like what happens with sharepoint? so the user does not have to log in again with their windows login to access these pages. Ian -Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 December 2008 11:32 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion? How can I in Coldfusion check that a document has been opened? Once read the user has to click a checkbox that they have read the document. (Similar to an e-learning course website) Yeah, my first thought would be to use cfcontent to serve up the document in a .cfm, and log it to your db right before the cfcontent. Sounds easy enough... Will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
Yes, you can use the cgi.auth_user to obtain the userid from the GAL.
Then when a user clicks to read a document send them to a link such as:
document.cfm?docid={document identifier}
then you can use the cgi.auth_user and the document identifier to indicate
that the user has read the document.
the document.cfm file will server the DOC/PDF file up to the user for
downloading. This would constitute the user reading the document. Now,
whether or not they truly read it is up to them.
Within the document, you can put a LINK (A HREF) back to the site such as:
document_confirmation.cfm
and have it pass the identifier back to that page. Within that page, you can
pull the document identifier and the cgi.auth_user to record the transaction
that the user has CONFIRMED they have read the document.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Ian Vaughan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks All
Can this (loading word, pdf docs in cfcontent) be done in CF 7?
Any code snippets about?
Also the users would need to be logged in for the application to track
who has read what documents etc
With Coldfusion can you pass through the Active Directory/Windows login
details like what happens with sharepoint? so the user does not have to
log in again with their windows login to access these pages.
Ian
-Original Message-
From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 December 2008 11:32
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: Creating a Policy Manager Feature in Coldfusion?
How can I in Coldfusion check that a document has been opened? Once
read
the user has to click a checkbox that they have read the document.
(Similar to an e-learning course website)
Yeah, my first thought would be to use cfcontent to serve up the
document in a .cfm, and log it to your db right before the cfcontent.
Sounds easy enough...
Will
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