Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Jason Miller
Sort of related - about system information - Do a search on google about SuperCookie's - here's an article. You can grab unique registry info from a webpage in 4 lines of code - http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/supercookie.htm jay

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Jason Miller
I would have suggested that on the Flash lists I belong to - but occassionally forget about it here - even though I ironically am working on a multi tiered flash form right now. Flash would be a great solution - although it does have the extra step - so if budget is tight it may push it. But as S

RE: Other Mailing lists

2002-11-23 Thread Steve Reich
Try http://www.aspfriends.com... HTH, Steve -Original Message- From: Fregas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Other Mailing lists This is way off topic, but does anyone know of some mailing lists similar to CFTALK but for Java, C

Re: how to add a MS Access Database as a datasource in SuSE Linux 8.0 ColdFusion 5.0

2002-11-23 Thread Dick Applebaum
Have a look at OpenLink Software: www.openlinksw,com they have a solution that allows you to connect to a MS-Access db (as if it were a server) on a win box (real or emulated). I and others have done this on Linux, Mac OS X, etc. There solution has a free trial, and costs $500 to buy. You

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Samuel Neff
How can you grab that off the users machine via a web page? Wouldn't you at least need activex control, which still may not be able to (but probably can). > -Original Message- > From: samcfug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:13 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject:

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, Nov 23, 2002, at 23:49 US/Pacific, Jason Miller wrote: > There has been lots of suggestions on here - but one more - I just > built > a complex set of forms - there are 8 major forms - half of them > dynamically created form queries. And another option I've not seen mentioned is to c

Re: Java in CF (CFMX)

2002-11-23 Thread Dick Applebaum
I am really late to this thread -- been doin' other interesting stuff. There are one (or two, or forty) reasons that have not been mentioned, that make inline Java code a benefit. 1) Where needed in an app, you can get strong typing and nulls -- say you want to communicate with a JDBC driver

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Jason Miller
There has been lots of suggestions on here - but one more - I just built a complex set of forms - there are 8 major forms - half of them dynamically created form queries. User files in information and continues through additional forms and css and js hide and show the form layers. There is no limit

Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread samcfug
You can use the bios machines name - or even MAC address or all of the above. = Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org = - Original Message - From: "Andy Ousterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Good idea... Though organizing / managing several different methods and making it transparent to the application administrator(s) could be tricky... but I think well worth the effort. Customers like options. :) > If you're talking about a commercial product, then you're > probably > talking about

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Why require them to be local? Although for a timecard application, I suspect a cookie is likely good enough -- yea, it's hackable, but the chances of it actually being hacked are slim and it's not like the data is key-codes for nuclear missile silos or anything. > Can NT provide security differen

RE: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread brook
In most cases you would use hidden form fields on each page of the form to pass the data along to the next page. If you search the tag gallery, I recall a CF tag that will generate all of the hidden form field code on each page. Try searching for "hidden","formfield" and the llke. Othertimes, u

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Samuel Neff
If you're talking about a commercial product, then you're probably talking about an optional feature, correct? In any case, I would look into including multiple restriction options and leave it up to the system administrator to choose. 1. Static IP list 2. IP subnet mask or range (i.e., all IP'

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Can NT provide security differentiated by what PC the User is signed into when the User is coming through a DHCP server and you can't base it off of a static IP address? Specifically, I am looking to provide access to a Time Clock application, but can only let Users Punch In and Out when they are

Re: CFMX JDBC ERROR: No ResultSet set was produced.

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Known issue... http://www.macromedia.com/v1/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=23464&Method=Full SELECT and DROP keywords contained in SQL could produce a "No ResultSet set was produced" error message. 45938 argh... that's frustrating... all the more so because entering that issue id into the knowledge base

CFMX JDBC ERROR: No ResultSet set was produced.

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Does anybody know why this happens? Is it really no longer valid to pass a valid sql statement that doesn't produce a recordset? So ... How do I use a query to create a table, etc? Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]No

RE: _date feature in CF5.0, possibly CFMX as well

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Ahh... I suppose that could be done in the CF Administrator... although I doubt it's liable to be a high enough priority for enough people to make it worth the time to implement it. > s. isaac dealey, > I believe you misread my msg, I propose that MM to > "Add enable/disable 6 server-side validat

RE: _date feature in CF5.0, possibly CFMX as well

2002-11-23 Thread Li Chunshen \(Don\)
s. isaac dealey, I believe you misread my msg, I propose that MM to "Add enable/disable 6 server-side validation rules via CFadmin, for backward compatibility, default to enabled", not to remove them. Thanks. Don Li --- "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Considering that this b

customizing debug output --

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
For anyone who might be interrested: I wanted to improve control over variable display at the bottom of the debug output, so I got into the cfmx setup and I discovered a couple of things: You can create custom debugging templates in cfusionmx/wwwroot/web_inf/debug and they do get added to the dro

RE: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Scandale
Just finished testing that exact routine... except storing as a Client.Variable until later when needed... Thanks! At 01:29 PM 11/23/02, you wrote: >Just use wddx to serialize the form scope to a variable. Then, use a hidden >field to store the value of the wddx packet. > >> -Original Messag

RE: _date feature in CF5.0, possibly CFMX as well

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> > Considering that this behavior has existed since CF >> > 1.5, I think, I suspect it's unlikely to change any >> > time soon. >> >> Your observation is true, however, you and other folks >> will be on my side to push Macromedia to do this >> little thing for the good of this community. > I'd p

RE: _date bug in CF5.0, possibly CFMX as well

2002-11-23 Thread Dave Watts
> > Considering that this behavior has existed since CF > > 1.5, I think, I suspect it's unlikely to change any > > time soon. > > Your observation is true, however, you and other folks > will be on my side to push Macromedia to do this > little thing for the good of this community. I'd prefer t

Re: ColdFusion MX JDBC MS SQL Server 2000 named instance

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Oh duh! Nevermind... cfmx uses the proper connection string syntax if you just use the machine name and the port number in the port number field ... In my defense, it was different in CF 5. ;P > Well -- I'm able to connect to the named instance using > the ODBC socket, but > damn... that shouldn'

Re: ColdFusion MX JDBC MS SQL Server 2000 named instance

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Well -- I'm able to connect to the named instance using the ODBC socket, but damn... that shouldn't be the _only_ way to accomplish this. > Okay, I found this article: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q3 > 13225 > Which says that to connect to a named instance of SQL > S

ColdFusion MX JDBC MS SQL Server 2000 named instance

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Okay, I found this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q313225 Which says that to connect to a named instance of SQL Server 2000 using JDBC you have to use the syntax server_name:port_number instead of server_name\sqlserver_instance However, when I attempt to use thi

RE: Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF?

2002-11-23 Thread Stacy Young
Thanks will look into it ! -Original Message- From: Samuel Neff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF? This is from Neil Giarratana's presentation at CF-North (IniNet, Inc).

RE: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Kwang Suh
Just use wddx to serialize the form scope to a variable. Then, use a hidden field to store the value of the wddx packet. > -Original Message- > From: Brian Scandale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:58 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: temp variable storage?

RE: Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF?

2002-11-23 Thread Samuel Neff
This is from Neil Giarratana's presentation at CF-North (IniNet, Inc). import java.io.*; import org.apache.fop.apps.Driver; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class PDFGenerator { public void createPDF(String foFile) throws FileNotFoundException, java.io.IOException, org.apache.fop.ap

RE: Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF?

2002-11-23 Thread Ken Wilson
>but after acquiring a more CF-friendly Java >class it was easy to use What was the more CF-friendly Java class that you acquired? Ken ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http:

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Scandale
I think I know what I want to do now... 1. - Store the Form.Variables into a Structure. <-cfscript> tmpStruct = StructNew(); SomeArrayformNames = ListToArray(form.fieldnames); for(i=1; i LT ListLen(form.fieldnames)+1; i=i+1){ StructInsert(tmpStruct,"Attributes.#

Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread samcfug
Like the man says, Use NT user and group permissions. = Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org = - Original Message - From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMA

RE: Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF?

2002-11-23 Thread Samuel Neff
Apache FOP can be used to convert XSL-FO into a variety of formats, including both PostScript and PDF. I've played with it a little and had trouble using it directly from CF (even CFMX), but after acquiring a more CF-friendly Java class it was easy to use (well, easy once you get over the XSL-FO l

ColdFusion MX JDBC MS SQL Server 2000 named instance

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Has anyone on the list been able to assign a dsn in the CFMX administrator to a database on a named instance of MS SQL 2000? I have a server here with MS SQL 7 on 127.0.0.1 or "TURING" ( the server's machine name ) and a SQL Server 2000 named instance at "TURING\SOCRATES" ... In CF 5 I could simpl

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Then I have no idea... > What if they're not static and you're using DHCP? > -Original Message- > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:25 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's >> I am looking to loc

RE: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Tim Laureska
What if they're not static and you're using DHCP? -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's > I am looking to lock down certain types of access to >

Re: OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> I am looking to lock down certain types of access to > particular machines. I > was thinking about using cookies to tag the approved PC's. > How easy is it > for a User to copy a cookie from 1 PC to another? > Anyone have alternative methods that they've used? > Thanks, > Andy I wouldn't expe

OT: Limiting functionality to individual PC's

2002-11-23 Thread Andy Ousterhout
I am looking to lock down certain types of access to particular machines. I was thinking about using cookies to tag the approved PC's. How easy is it for a User to copy a cookie from 1 PC to another? Anyone have alternative methods that they've used? Thanks, Andy -Original Message- Fro

RE: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Russ
Unless XML/XSLT are options... Then you can write "live" to the db on a per-field basis...so it's not entirely impossible, just complex. > -Original Message- > From: Brian Scandale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 12:58 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: temp v

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Scandale
No, no and no. MUST STORE form.variable data while user navigates 6 other forms... Then the form.variable data has value and can be written to the database tables in the way described by the user when they navigate the next six pages. Until they navigate it is IMPOSSIBLE to write the data. tha

RE: Cfloop equivalent in cfscript?

2002-11-23 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Steve, If you go into CF5.0 Help and go to Developing CF Applications, Chapter 13. Shows all of the commands. Andy -Original Message- From: Steven Durette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Cfloop equivalent in cfscript? Didn't se

Re: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Jason Miller
I would simply have the record created on the first form - then run a sql update query on the other forms. if you store temporarily - someone may give up and you loose all information is someone kills browser - or you have to take extra steps to write cookies or secure your temp info- by writing

RE: temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Ken Wilson
What dictates that the first form can't be written to the DB as soon as they submit it? Ken -Original Message- From: Brian Scandale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: temp variable storage? I have a large form (around 100 text box

Anyone have experience in writing Postscript files from CF?

2002-11-23 Thread Stacy Young
Any how-to hints would be much appreciated! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas

temp variable storage?

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Scandale
I have a large form (around 100 text boxes and check boxes etc...). Once the user submits it they still need to navigate about 6 more forms before the data can be written to a database. How do I go about storing the form data temporarily until I can write it to disk? I suspect there are more t

RE: Compiling List of Files in specific folders

2002-11-23 Thread Jim Davis
> Jim, > Fantastic - it worked great. I had a question though - > I am using your tag is a for reference - > > I get the following error below (pasted below)- > If I simply comment that line 115 out - the one that sets the > query info for Attributes - it works like a charm. > Is this becau

Re: Compiling List of Files in specific folders

2002-11-23 Thread Jason Miller
Jim, Fantastic - it worked great. I had a question though - I am using your tag is a http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for th

RE: [OT] Zip Code Lookup

2002-11-23 Thread Jeff Beer
This only sets a "bounding box" of zips to consider when doing the actual queries and calcs. If you try to do a brute force match over your entire database, it becomes extremely slow. So, this query draws (selects) a square with sides equal to the desired radius, then passes those values to the q

Re: list problems - empty fields

2002-11-23 Thread Jon Hall
Saturday, November 23, 2002, 5:37:57 AM, you wrote: SC> I'm reading a txt file which has 3 fields to a line SC> eg SC> 14||'Maggin, Elliot S.' SC> 15||'Maine, Charles Eric' SC> 16|1|'McCaffrey, Anne' SC> but often the second field is empty SC> Lists don't believe an empty field exists so I keep

RE: list problems - empty fields

2002-11-23 Thread stas
There is a custom tag on DevEx - CSV2Query that will convert a list to a query. It will handle empty fields for you, and you could probably get better functionality for what your doing with a list. > -Original Message- > From: Seamus Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, N

Re: list problems - empty fields

2002-11-23 Thread Seamus Campbell
thanks Kym I was trying something like that but had the syntax wrong so assumed I was on the wrong track. Thanks again Seamus At 10:06 PM 23/11/02 , you wrote: >Hi Seamus, > > >I'm reading a txt file which has 3 fields to a line > >eg > > > >14||'Maggin, Elliot S.' > >15||'Maine, Charles Eric' >

Re: list problems - empty fields

2002-11-23 Thread Kym Kovan
Hi Seamus, >I'm reading a txt file which has 3 fields to a line >eg > >14||'Maggin, Elliot S.' >15||'Maine, Charles Eric' >16|1|'McCaffrey, Anne' > >but often the second field is empty > >Lists don't believe an empty field exists so I keep getting errors when I >try to loop over the list to impor

list problems - empty fields

2002-11-23 Thread Seamus Campbell
Hi I'm reading a txt file which has 3 fields to a line eg 14||'Maggin, Elliot S.' 15||'Maine, Charles Eric' 16|1|'McCaffrey, Anne' but often the second field is empty Lists don't believe an empty field exists so I keep getting errors when I try to loop over the list to import to a database Ho