Re: cfcontent create file
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > But a 'doc' file type is a binary file type is it not? In my experience > you can't just write simple text to a with a doc extension and get > anything useful. I could see this working with an plain text (.txt) or > rich text (.rtf) extension, but not a .doc extension. you can test this easily. Put a .txt file on your desktop with some content in it, rename it to a .doc and open it. It works just fine, at least in Word 2007 it does. I could test Word 2000 at home.. Word does format detection to figure out what KIND of word doc it is. It'll realize that his file is an RTF document, and it'll realize that your plain text document (tested above) is a text document, and display it just fine. Same way you can write HTML tables to a file, save it with a .XLS extension, and have it open in Excel. Ri ~| 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:327210 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: cfcontent create file
Joshua Rowe wrote: > This should work for you: > > > > This is the content that will go into my .doc file. > This is a test. > > >file="#Replace(ExpandPath('*.*'),'*.*','')#test.doc" > output="#myContent#"> > > > Best regards, > Joshua Rowe But a 'doc' file type is a binary file type is it not? In my experience you can't just write simple text to a with a doc extension and get anything useful. I could see this working with an plain text (.txt) or rich text (.rtf) extension, but not a .doc extension. To create binary .doc types I believe you need to use the Word com object or the Java POI utilities do you not. ~| 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:327193 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: cfcontent create file
thanks, that is exactly what we wanted richard ~| 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:327192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: cfcontent create file
This should work for you: This is the content that will go into my .doc file. This is a test. Best regards, Joshua Rowe -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:rich...@j7is.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: cfcontent create file hi we are using cfcontent and rich text to create a word doc as follows: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\deff0\stshfd bch0 etc... however when we run the cfm page it brings up the download option, whereas we want to create the file and store it on the server can anyone help with this? thanks richard ~| 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:327191 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: cfcontent create file
Richard, You don't really need CFCONTENT (which actually sets up headers in the browser). You are not trying to send your content to the output buffer of IIS. Try cfsavecontent instead. {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\deff0=stshfdbch0 etc... -Mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:rich...@j7is.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: cfcontent create file hi we are using cfcontent and rich text to create a word doc as follows: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\deff0\stshfd bch0 etc... however when we run the cfm page it brings up the download option, whereas we want to create the file and store it on the server can anyone help with this? thanks richard ~| 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:327190 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: cfcontent create file
You want cfsavecontent, not cfcontent. Write the contents of the cfsavecontent variable into a file with cffile. mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ 2009/10/14 Richard White : > > hi > > we are using cfcontent and rich text to create a word doc as follows: > > type="application/msword">{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\deff0\stshfdbch0 > etc... > > however when we run the cfm page it brings up the download option, whereas we > want to create the file and store it on the server > > can anyone help with this? > > thanks > > richard > > ~| 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:327189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4