Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Can I Remove the URL from Child Windows?

2016-09-09 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I can't answer the child window question (because I haven't touched CF\HTML in about 4 years now) - BUT - the PDF is simply a standardized file format. Adobe Acrobat is one of *many* applications that can read, create and edit PDF files. I don't see PDF going away for the foreseeable future. (YMM

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: cfspreadsheet etc. question

2014-03-17 Thread Dawn Hoagland
FWIW - it's been a while - but I had issues using the pure CF implementation of POI for several things. I started doing my spreadsheet manipulation in pure java\POI - and loaded the later, FULL POI in order to it (using javaloader). I wish I could give you examples, but it's been a couple of year

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-06 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Please review the Adobe CF Security bulletins and make sure you're patched. There were some pretty major holes plugged last January. https://www.adobe.com/support/security/?securityadvisoryproduct=%23coldfusion&Submit=Go#coldfusion On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Ajas Mohammed wrote: > In ter

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Reports - layout/design & huge resultsets

2013-05-28 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I have always done the same as Cameron. Although I will add that for epically large datasets, CF's memory management can be lacking when streaming to disk (causing crashes). I was able to manage memory better by writing reports (Excel, PDF, etc) in Java (using POI) where I found garbage collectio

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] SQL Server Question

2013-05-22 Thread Dawn Hoagland
My 2 cents. I've seen more poorly put together Hibernate implementations than I can count. If you don't REALLY know the data, how it's put together, how it's used and keep the objects updated, Hibernate will automatically generate the worst path imaginable to get the data you need. I've also

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Getting Connection Refused

2013-05-21 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Sounds about right - and I believe I did run into that once or twice (several eons ago) when I was in a purely java environment. Interesting it had been set to the CF default - unless it was a newer server that FRIT setup. Whenever I updated the JVM I pointed CF to a different directory and the d

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction

2013-04-22 Thread Dawn Hoagland
k of Atlanta | 1000 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA > 30309-4470 > > Phone: 404.498.8178 | Fax: 404.498.8239 | Mobile: 404.985.9270 > > Email: brooks.wil...@atl.frb.org**** > > ** ** > > *From:* ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] *On Behalf Of *Dawn > Hoaglan

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction

2013-04-19 Thread Dawn Hoagland
hild node that has > interface set to asterisk. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 19, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Dawn Hoagland wrote: > > Assuming a single server, development instance install. > > *{installLocation}\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml* > > Update

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction

2013-04-19 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Assuming a single server, development instance install. *{installLocation}\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml* Update the "interface" attribute in the following service class * * *8500* *127.0.0.1* *false* *50* *1* *1000* *0* *300* *500* *

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] 9.01 vs 9.02

2013-04-12 Thread Dawn Hoagland
For what it's worth. I worked in a very security aware environment for a while. All CF security patches were implemented in development for a 2 week testing period within 7-30 days of release from Adobe AND all JVM editions were updated in that time period as well if there was a security aler

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Choosing a person with adequate CF skills

2013-03-12 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Honestly - the absolute best way I've found is to sit them down with at a computer with some basic development tasks and let them have 2-4 hours to work through them. The low end folks may just walk out. Go ahead and give access to Google because it is a good development tool :) One of the best

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-21 Thread Dawn Hoagland
It was introduced in APSB12-06 released March of 2012. They introduced the setting, defaulted it to 100, but didn't update the Administrator to allow editing from the GUI so it must be added directly in the XML. http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-06.html On Mon, Jan 21, 2013

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-06 Thread Dawn Hoagland
" if I'm not mistaken, Windows uses two different characters and *nix uses one." You've got it Mike. 'nix uses LF (chr(10))only and Windows uses CR + LF (chr(10) chr(13)). On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mike Staver wrote: > if I'm not mistaken, Windows uses two different characters and *nix u

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-06 Thread Dawn Hoagland
o understand, in case it may help others. Thanks to > you both. > > ** ** > > /charlie > > ** ** > > *From:* ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] *On Behalf Of *Dawn > Hoagland > *Sent:* Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:32 AM > *To:* discussion@acfug.org > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-06 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Formatting problems when passing text files between Windows and 'nix have been around since anyone needed to pass text files between Windows and 'nix. Windows implements a different method of the linefeed character. Notepad *should* always be safe. But I've occasionally had problems there as wel

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Need a way to redirect users based on country

2012-09-04 Thread Dawn Hoagland
FWIW - ColdFusion is written in Java. You can put their library in your class path (or use a java loader) and call it directly. It sounds harder than it actually is to do. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > Thanks Josh, > > The challenge is to redirect users when the hit the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Have a question about group limits

2012-07-24 Thread Dawn Hoagland
FWIW - I'll jump in. Both solutions definitely warrant a look-see for the OP to determine which is best for his particular situation. I've seen a lot of code loops running queries in situations where it's ok (i.e. small datasets with a finite # of loops) and situations where they shouldn't have b

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Have a question about group limits

2012-07-23 Thread Dawn Hoagland
This is one solution & probably fine for a small # of groups. I would do this in a stored proc in the database if at all possible so if your dataset (i.e. # of groups) got large you're still limiting the output w/o running a large number of queries (which can itself cause headaches). On Mon, Jul

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF9 email problem

2012-05-23 Thread Dawn Hoagland
One other thing to try for troubleshooting. Turn on mail logging & check the mail.log. If the email is being sent by CF multiple times or to multiple recipients, you should be able to tell from the log. -- Dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Frank Moorman wrote: > Brooks, > > Not a problem

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tricky SQL help?

2012-04-09 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Typically, processing in DB will be faster - even if you need to write a stored proc to do processing. You can write inefficient stuff in a DB pretty easily as well, so it's not ALWAYS a given. I'm more familiar with Oracle & SQL Server so I'm not sure which method will be better using MySQL (out

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tricky SQL help?

2012-04-09 Thread Dawn Hoagland
And I'll disagree - make the DB do the work unless it is an extremely small dataset. We don't know if he's working with a few hundred records or 20,000. While it won't matter if it's a small dataset, developers should learn how to get the data they need from the database so that in the even they

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] incorporation advice

2012-02-22 Thread Dawn Hoagland
If you're the sole business owner, save yourself lots of headaches and at least start out as a sole proprietor LLC. Protect yourself with proper insurance (general liability, errors & omissions, etc). You can always convert to an S Corp later if the $$ coming in warrants hiring an accountant to t

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] JavaLoader & POI Issue

2011-11-24 Thread Dawn Hoagland
taver wrote: > Interesting. Since I'm using the same code on two different systems and > getting the same results - is there any way I can see what is loaded in > memory currently? > > -Mike > > On Nov 24, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Dawn Hoagland wrote: > > I've seen

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] JavaLoader & POI Issue

2011-11-24 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I've seen this happen when multiple versions of the library are being loaded into memory. CF/Java SHOULD pick the one loaded with the Javaloader, but doesn't always. I've seen this happen when multiple versions of POI have been dropped in CF's lib folder as well. When stuff like this happens, I w

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] PDFs / Excel Shenanigans

2011-10-11 Thread Dawn Hoagland
ColdFusion 9 uses the Apache POI project to create Excel spreadsheets. You can access all of the bits natively to create multiple sheets. You can find tons of info about POI here: http://poi.apache.org/ On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Nicholson < matthew.nichol...@soltech.net> wrote: >

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] cfspreadsheet question

2011-07-27 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I have used the actual POI calls to obtain specific cells from specific sheets if you know exactly how things are laid out. The snippet of code will cycle through all of the rows/cells in a spreadsheet - but you can add a loop to do the same thing through several worksheets.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] cfloop query - whats best include page vs cfhttp

2011-03-17 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I've written something similar to this to schedule processes and make sure we aren't killing the server during batch runs by running too many processes in parallel. If there's a process to run, I invoke a component to run the process. The component updates the db to show it is running. This is a

[ACFUG Discuss] Fwd: 51% Off WhirlyBall in Roswell

2011-03-17 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Knowing how whirly-ball is a popular spot for this group - I knew I had to pass it along when I saw it in my inbox this morning! -- Forwarded message -- From: Groupon Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:52 AM Subject: 51% Off WhirlyBall in Roswell Your Daily Atlanta Groupon |

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Upgrading CF7 to CF9

2010-09-04 Thread Dawn Hoagland
We recently moved an app from CF7 to CF9. The only issue language related that we ran into was that the arguments for the ListToArray() function (I think, I don't have the code in front of me) changed and caused a few unexpected results in some reports. Every other issue we had was moving the DB

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Guinea Pigs to Test an Adobe Acrobat Problem?

2010-06-11 Thread Dawn Hoagland
you say the first part looked good, do you mean it WASN'T > surrounded by a thick black border? > > Thanks, > Peyton > > -- > *From:* Dawn Hoagland > *To:* discussion@acfug.org > *Sent:* Fri, June 11, 2010 6:36:34 PM > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Guinea Pigs to Test an Adobe Acrobat Problem?

2010-06-11 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I'm running Windows 7 - 64 bit. I was able to play the first video once. Closing the document & killing any acrobat process would not let me view it again. It looked good, but I didn't try frame by frame clicking - and can't get it back to test. The second video also looked fine - even frame by

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Flex, Flash Security and crossdomain.xml

2010-03-27 Thread Dawn Hoagland
l this as much to make sure that others realize that this > challenge with the crossdomain.xml files isn’t quite that unique. It’s not > what most tend to think of first, but it’s always worth ruling out first. > :-) > > > > /charlie > > > > *From:* ad...@acfug.o

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Flex, Flash Security and crossdomain.xml

2010-03-26 Thread Dawn Hoagland
d gives you a good start for troubleshooting. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Dawn On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Dawn Hoagland wrote: > I absolutely agree with all of you. We'll get it locked up tight - once we > get it working. I don't have direct access to

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Flex, Flash Security and crossdomain.xml

2010-03-25 Thread Dawn Hoagland
atic domain address? > > You might want to try that first to isolate the issues. > > > I actually never got a crossdomain policy to work with the "*" all settings > > but was successful with static domain names. > > Robert Lash > > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010

[ACFUG Discuss] Flex, Flash Security and crossdomain.xml

2010-03-24 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Background: We are running ColdFusion8 in a multi-server configuration under IIS. We have an application where we are attempting to allow our customer access through a proxy server. The domain of our *internal* server (for discussion sake) is *dev.company1.org*. The domain they are coming from i

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] validating credit card numbers with CF

2010-03-10 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I looked through my old files during lunch - and somehow didn't manage to keep my custom tag (yes, pre CFC days) with all of the validation. That said, Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of possible card types with their possible valid lengths, ranges and validation (anything you're likely to a

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] validating credit card numbers with CF

2010-03-10 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Don't forget the Mod10 check to validate for fat fingering the card #. I've got some simple validation code around somewhere that checks based on card type + mod10 check. If I run across it, I'll post. Dawn On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Dusty Hale wrote: > Thanks shawn. Would that be as s

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-21 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I've successfully used a meta-refresh with a counter keeping track of which batch of emails have been sent (via session or url parameter) for a quick and dirty way to throttle mass emails. Dawn On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Troy Jones wrote: > Clarke, > > > > We have a similar application t

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Images as Checkboxes

2009-03-27 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Done it, and toggling with JS is how I did it. I don't have the sourcecode (did this quite a while ago), but I don't recall it being particularly tricky. I did have the luxury of dictating the browser Dawn On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Douglas Knudsen wrote: > look no further than GMail

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] weird cfinput vs input stuff. date is shown as {d '2009-02-12'} vs 02/12/2009

2009-02-12 Thread Dawn Hoagland
And this is why I never use it unless the "user" has their knickers in a wad to know about the error before they go to the next page. Even then I usually don't bother (especially if they are on an intranet) because the server validation is so quick they don't realize that they've just *gasp* submi

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] weird cfinput vs input stuff. date is shown as {d '2009-02-12'} vs 02/12/2009

2009-02-12 Thread Dawn Hoagland
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents > the wise choice of many alternatives. > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Dawn Hoagland wrote: > >> Do a dateformat(formfield,'mm/dd/') before using the data from the >> form.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] weird cfinput vs input stuff. date is shown as {d '2009-02-12'} vs 02/12/2009

2009-02-12 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Do a dateformat(formfield,'mm/dd/') before using the data from the form. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Ajas Mohammed wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed this in my form submission and dont know why cfinput with > validation would show date as *{d '2009-02-12'} *whereas regular input > would show s

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another CFMAIL Problem

2008-11-09 Thread Dawn Hoagland
IF you can send a link to the server AND he always needs the latest version (and assuming it doesn't take long to generate the PDF) - I would send a link to a page that generates it on the fly every time and allow him to download that version when needed - as previously mentioned by Howard. This e

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] cflocation with variables encrypted, is it safe approach?

2008-07-29 Thread Dawn Hoagland
Are you using IIS/Kerberos authentication where it's all handled on the server and pulling who it is from there - or is your SSO handled through a separate "application" where (for instance) an encrypted cookie is set so applications across several servers can utilize the cookie for authentication

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes

2008-07-11 Thread Dawn Hoagland
They're all listed on wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3 Shouldn't take more than a 1/2 hour to copy and paste into excel and generate an insert statement to put them into whatever database you need Dawn On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Troy Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFMAIL issue

2008-06-23 Thread Dawn Hoagland
In addition - firewall settings may need to be checked... Dawn On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Troy Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, make sure your production server has permission to relay off the mail > server in question. An assumed thing, of course, but it is something I have > enco

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFMAIL issue

2008-06-23 Thread Dawn Hoagland
You didn't say what version of CF. I know that earlier versions (at least 4.x - and perhaps 5) had issues if a message was malformed. That one message is all it takes. No amount of rebooting/restarting fixes it. Move/delete all undelivered mail and see if that fixes your issue. Dawn On Mon, J