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I have some coldfusion servers that are connected to an oracle database and have been having some issues sending queries to the DB from the CF servers. I must also state that both the server and db are quite busy. The issue I am having is that the same query will get processed and shortly after I...
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My CF2023 site has been running perfectly until now when suddenly I'm getting errors related to argument names containing hyphens. I'm assuming it's the hyphen that's the problem.The name FILE-0 used for an argument has illegal characters in it. The site is...
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I inherited a Club website and a copy of CF for Dummies. All went well until my ISP upgraded. Now I can't pass variables between pages. What to do?...
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With "myQuery.ColumnList", I get the list of columns in a database query.Using GetMetaData(), I can then read the data type of each column using typeName.Is there a way to get additional information, such as the length of varchar data types?...
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I'm looking for advices about the rewriting URLs fonction of cfWheels. I'm running an app on Adobe ColdFusion 2025, cfWheels 2.5.1 and CommandBoxI'm looking for rewriting URLs of the website (suppress the"/index.cfm/" prefix) and it works! great! BUT I don't have access to my CFIDE Admin P...
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Hello,I am using cf 23 and facing the issue when trying to communicate with remote api on spring. This is my cf codebase:var url = "
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Has the usage of writedump changed in 2025? I have both 2023 and 2025 running side by side on the same dev server using the same cfscripts. However when i do writedump(var=info,abort=true) to debug soemthing in 2023 i get a proper dump in the response. In 2025 all i ...
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Hello,We are upgrading several machines from CF2021 to CF2023 and are seeing a consistent issue with each upgrade as we go in and try to turn on our ActiveMQ Gateway Instances. The instances won't start and they are throwing what appear to be java JMS errors in the exception logs.&nb...
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I currently have a jQuery ajax call to a third-party API, which checks a vehicle's licence plate against a national database: $.ajax({
type: "get",
url: "https://test.carjam.co.nz/a/vehicle:abcd",
data: {key:key,plate:plate},
dataType: "json...
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We are pleased to inform you that we've released security updates for ColdFusion 2025, 2023, and 2021 releases. For more information, see the respective tech notes:
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Hi,Trying to connect to SFTP site, was getting connection timed out at first. I looked around for others with the issue found some leads. Finally with try/catch when dumping cfftp after the end of try cfftp is undefinded. I have stop on error turned on and secure. I...
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Hi everyone, I'm encountering a recurring issue with ColdFusion 2023 (Update 13) specifically on our PROD DMZ server. We have six ColdFusion servers across different environments — DEV, ACPT, and PROD — each with internal and DMZ configurations. Interestin...
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My company has just notified me of security vulnerabiltiy CVE-2025-31651 which was recently reported. The vulnerability appears to affect Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.102 and the only mitigation seems to be updating to version 9.0.104 or later.Does anyone know if Adobe h...
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Hello all, I've been asked to assist with a departments migration away from CF 2018 due to CF 2018 being EoL. Unfortunately, my experience with CF started with this project and the two previous admins that assisted with the CF 2018 setup are no lo...
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I am trying to get the PDF manager to work on coldfusion 2025 (developer addition) running on Ubuntu with Apache web server. I did the full GUI install (ColdFusion_2025_GUI_WWEJ_linux64.bin ) select developer addition, all add ons etc. Did no install the separate addons download. So jetty is inst...
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I have an AWS EC2 instance built from a Marketplace AMI Coldfusion (2023) Update 11 on hardened AWS Linux with ColdFusion Enterprise Lincense (built around Nov 21 2024)I applied the U12 hotfix (on Apr 8, 2025) and users are reporting an error (see attached) stating that we have a developer...
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I'm getting an error while trying to upload files. This works fine on our Production server, but the development server is where I'm getting the error. Both servers are running Coldfusion 2023 Update 13 on Windows Server 2022. Attached is an example of the error I'm getting. I'...
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Impacts: ColdFusion 2025 Update 1 In Package Manager: Settings: Notification, there are two email fields:If updates are available, send email notification toIf updates are available, send email notification from M...
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After applying CF2021 Update 19, the add-ons would no longer start, so I reinstalled them to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, SOLR reverted back to 7.2.1. I attempted to upgrade to 8.11.3 manually by following "Upgrade SOLR in ColdFusion" steps (
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My CF2021 box is failing security because even though I have uninstalled the search module from CFAdmin, Jetty itself is running an old version of SOLR inside Lucene. Here's how I know this: GET http://server:8993/solr/admin/info/system HTTP/1.1
Under...
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Post a brandnew CF2025 in Ubuntu linux 22.04.1 installation unable to start the server, I have selected the installation as Developer mode and Developer Profile. Setup an apache2 connector. I am unclear if I should provide the sudo password when promted or the CFIDE admin password as in older ver...
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Hello all,I have been looking to see if there is an answer to this or a "How To" but haven't found one.We have CF 2021 Update 17 web server up and running.We want to move to 2025Is there a way to do an inplace upgrade?On my test box when I run the 2...
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After applying CF2021 Update 19, the following three services failed to start:Add-on ServicesODBC AgentODBC ServerI was able to get the add-on working again by reinstalling it, but the ODBC services are no longer working. I even rolled back to update 18 ...
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I am having trouble uploading files after migrating the site from local environment to the web. Following is the relevant section of code from a coldfusion function that uploads files using BlueImp: cffunction name="POST" access="private" return...
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I recently upgraded from Coldfusion 2021 Update 9 to Update 18. I used the package manager to install the update and now I'm getting the message"The Administrator module is not installed". This wasn't an issue on our test instance, but for whatever reason this happened in our production instance ...
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We are stumped ... we've been creating a CF web site for years. It works fine on all our coders localhosts and it works fine on a commercial CF hosting server. We just copied all the code into a rack WE own and it simply will not work. ...
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Let me preface this by saying I run ColdFusion 2021 & 2023 as standalone servers, and I do install patches once released. I have an established process for acquiring and installing updates manually, which I have no intention of changing. My question is how do I stop ColdFusion 202...
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Hello, everyone. After installing Patch 7 of ColdFusion 2023 on an existing application, the CFLOCATION tags stopped redirecting. It was redirecting properly until Patch 6. The page indicates a status code 302 in the 'network' tab of Google Chrome and shows that the next page loaded, but visually...
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This server is running ColdFusion 2021 Update 18. I'm attempting to edit an existing Service provider in the SP Configuration section of the Administrator. the page throws the following error in the Application log: "Error","http-nio-8544-exec-5","04/17/25","08...
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I have tried running the auto-lockdown tool (for Windows/IIS), following the lockdown guide to the letter. I have tried this several times and in several ways: 1. running tool, uninstalling tool , running tool again2. running tool, uninstalling tool, uninstalling CF, uni...
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Hi,I am receiving the error message: "The getSpMetadataForAdmin method was not found." when I click on an existing SP to edit it. I also get the message when I add a new SP. It adds the SP but then throws the error when try to display it. Adding and editing an IDP is fine. I am on CF 2021 ...
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Hello, We are using ColdFusion 2023 Standard edition. We have an application which contains a CFCHART that worked when CF 2023 was on Update 6. However, now that we have updated to Update 7, the CFCHART no-longer works and is instead showing a red X. The CFCH...
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Just patched to CF2021 patch 19 and now htmltopdf does not work. In the logs I am seeing Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: coldfusion.document.DocumentScope not found by htmltopdf [
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What are the benefits of migrating from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee? I hear the migration itself is fairly smooth. Are there other benefits like more hosting availability, cheaper hosting, etc? What are people's experiences and what prompted you to do it? ...
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I wana download Coldfusion 2018, just In my local dont wana make it into the server.Please provide me download link.Its very Important........
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Hello,I am currently working on an S3 integration using ColdFusion, and I'm facing an issue when trying to retrieve all the files from an S3 bucket. I am using the listAll() method, but it seems that it only returns a maximum of 1000 files, and I need to handl...
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We are pleased to inform you that we've released security updates for ColdFusion 2025, 2023, and 2021 releases. For more information, see the respective tech notes:
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Is there any chance this will be updated in the future? I am getting a lot of heat from the security people because the scans keep coming back with log4j vulns.The analytics service is using an old version of elasticsearch that requires log4j-1.2.17.jarDoes anyone know of anyway ...
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Since my latest VS Code update I am getting this error in the output console: [Error - 10:08:39 PM] Request textDocument/documentHighlight failed. Message: Internal error. Code: -32603
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I'm trying to generate a map of tradespeople nearby to the site visitor. I've figured out most of it and am stuck on the final part mainly due to my weakness when it comes to arrays, structures etc. Apparently, the api needs an array that looks like:
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Hi All, After updating my Coldufsion 2021 server to the latest release (18 went from 2021,0,0,323925 to 2021,0,18,330341) to mitigate vulnerabilities CFR reports stopped working and I'm getting the following errors: coldfusion.runtime.report.R...
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In the MemberUpdateForm.cfm, I have the following......<cfFORM ACTION="MemberUpdateActionPage.cfm" METHOD="Post">...........<table border="1" height="350">.........<P><INPUT...
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I've run into a bit of a strange issue. I installed CF 2023 and had everything up and running without issue including the Solr server. I left for the day, and upon logging back in this morning, the ColdFusion Collections page was giving a generic 404 error page and is now just not loading anythin...
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We have a working CFHTTP call in our production code on a CF2021 server which works just dandy. It calls an outside party to get a token and follow up with more specific requests using get & put. As part of our enterprise migration process we have cloned the same code to ou...
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When I import the JSON into ColdFusion, the datasource password doesn't work.The log shows this message:Datasource XXX could not be found. Ensure that you have spelled the name correctly and that the data source is registered in the ColdFusion Administrator Data Sources page.
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Hi,using cfoauth at amazon to access selling portal api.If I hard code my clientid, secretKey etc everything works great I get the access_token. I have a query in the cfc component that gets these but if I use them in the <cfoauth tag the process fails - "invalid_client".&n...
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I ran ./cf-init-run.sh install which created /etc/systemd/system/cf2023.service and created the symlink to run it but it doesn't work cf2023.service has the following which doesn't seem right (sysinit doesn't exist) [Unit]Description=Adobe ColdFusion 20...
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I have a CF page "MemberExpress" like below<cfFORM ACTION="MemberExpressRegActionPage.cfm" method="post">..................<dd><B>My Email:</b><cfINPUT TYPE="text" size="30" name="Email" message="Please enter your email address." requir...
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I started evaluating CF2025 a couple weeks ago. I set it up to function through IISThe CF app we developed works as expected under HTTP, so we decided to get a SSL cert to make the server "legit" - after installing the SSL cert, CFCHART stopped appearing on the CFM page. Other basic CF cont...
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I have an CF 2018 Standard install on a windows server. I set up a new install of CF2018 on Azure windows server. I'm trying use the same license. The current install will not be used anymore so that can be disabled if possible. I don't see any way to disable the license ...
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Would greatly appreciate if someone could comment on this snippet from the external session storage doc:Once a session object is received from Redis, there can be changes to the object within the timespan of a given request. The session is persisted (if modified) back to ex...
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I'm thinking about hosting a CF site at Hostek, starting with shared hosting and maybe moving up to a dedicated setup later. I just want to test the site initially. Just wondering if anyone can share their experience with Hostek. As I understand it, shared hosting doesn't give you access to the C...
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Is Adobe going to continue supporting ColdFusion? I have a potential investor/collaborator who is concerned that we may end up having to rebuild the site in DotNet or something because without Adobe's continued support of the product, security of ColdFusion websites would ultimately suffer. He's ...
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I'm trying to get HTTPS to work for accessing the CF2023 Administrator using a signed certificate. It works fine for a self-signed certificate but I want to use a signed certificate. Self-signed certificate works with this Connector code in server.xml:...
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Hello,I am unable to activate our server. I am working in a closed environment and must use offline activation. I followed the process found here - https://coldfusion.adobe....
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My web server is using CF2021 update18 (Log4j version 2.20.0: jmx enabled default: -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=false).-When I set metaspace = 256, the memory has nearly 2 million elements of org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.LoggerContextAdmin (watched by jmap -dump).-When metaspace = 512, t...
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Hello Team, We are trying to wrap up Dev testing. 1 main issue that we can't fix and could cause us to rollback end of this week has to do with newer version of Tomcat. In ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 15 (release date: August 20, 2024), we've upgraded Tom...
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Hi All,I am trying to install ColdFusion 2025 on Mac. I am new to Mac so any help is appreciated. During installation, I am getting the following error:
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I just heard of a guy who ran his website from a computer at home and thus avoided having to deal with the issues of shared hosting. Apparently it worked great for him. Has anyone done this before and what would be involved for a coldfusion website? ...
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Hi,Our users do not want to see the debugging info.Error on server 1:
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I have a Redhat 9.5 Server where i have apache as web server. which is working fine.Downloaded the installer file (ColdFusion_2023_GUI_WWEJ_linux64.bin). Did the install, but when trying to access the tomcat pages for the administration part (port 8500) , i get a error 404. even on <ip&...
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HelloI'm 74 and have had a long relationship with CF (I met the Allaire brothers in person) & have had a long-time customer for whom I built a comprehensive Real Estate Appraisal app 12 years ago and am still keeping it updated when he requests any new functionality, etc.They ha...
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The latest vulnerability for Tomcat CVE-2025-24813 is reported to affect all Tomcat versions prior to 9.0.99. From the CVE - The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling file uploads via HTTP PUT requests. A remote...
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Hi All,Is there a way to make the SonarQube for vscode extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SonarSource.sonarlint-vscode) work with .cfm files?
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I'm using vs code with the cfbuilder plugin and using commandbox as my development server. I am getting an error when I start cfbuilder in vscode that cfbuilder requires a version of Java greater than 7. I already had a version greater than 7 but I clicked on the download Java b...
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I have an application client side both in php and cf code which does simliar things. Both post to cf server 2021 upadate 18. i believe the update 18 is cuasing the issue but i would have to roll back to 17 to test this. In my logs everything was fine until 2/20/2025 and in my installer downloads ...
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On ColdFusion 2016 local developer edition running SQL Server 2022 I cannot set up my datasource and getting the following error: "Connection verification failed for data source: XXXYYYjava.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLSer...
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Since an update was made on where my site is being hosted, i can't get the URL's to work. Unfortunately my site was written over 20 years ago (not by me) , i do have experience with HTML and CSS, but cold fusion....well no. From what I have seen is that it has something to do w...
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Part of my app provides various email content pages, which are called and populated with data, then prepared for sending through Postmark. In the following case, when a user shows interest in a job, s/he clicks a button labelled "Chase Job" which ultimate results in an email be...
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How to download cf2023 installer for migrating from cf20221 to cf 2023. CF trail version download no allows only cf2025 download.
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I am trying to set a .cfm file insde of an iframe. within a .net website.It was working fine using CF 2016 but now that I am using CF 2023 it doesn't work anymore... thoughts?this is the page:
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Scheduled tasks on my server are not working. In scheduler.log I get:Connection Failure: Status code unavailableSome more logs: The each method was not found.Either there are no methods with the specified method name and argument types or the e...
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Hello all,We were running on Update 11, and have a scheduled task that uses certificate file to connect.Before update it was working fine.Now after update we are getting this: ErrorCode82
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Here is the log file - The RDP is not enabled but the error says it is and it is a Production install with security: --- Any Thoughts on getting this lockdown tool to work
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Installed lockdown guide but it destroyed permissions on the websites. Does anyone have a manual lockdown guide for Cold Fusion 2023 Standard Edition?...
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Here is the log file - The RDP is not enabled but the error says it is and it is a Production install with security: --- Any Thoughts on getting thi slockdown to work
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Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in ColdFusion 2025? I get this error:Could not find the ColdFusion component or interface http. Ensure that the name is correct and that the component or interface exists.When trying to instantiate an HTTP ...
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We have a shared cfc file that builds html elements, one of which calls a separate function in the file that builds a bound selection box. While testing a newer version of CF in our Dev environment we had been utilizing the following flag in our server settings:Encryption - = -Dcoldfusion....
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I have HTML code, containing dynamic variables, stored in a database in a field named "data',. An example of raw data in that field would be:
<a href="<cfoutput>#application.siteroot#</cfoutput>/?utm_campaign=transactional&utm_source=ema...
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I have HTML code, containing dynamic variables, stored in a database in a field named "data',. An example of raw data in that field would be:<a href="<cfoutput>#application.siteroot#</cfoutput>/?utm_campaign=transactional&utm_source=emails.logo&ut...
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Recently, Postmark became less forgiving about the stuff people were sending them. I had been using some code 8 years ago from gitHub that prepared and sent email templates via Postmark. I've just dragged that code out again and it is erroring all over town right now. I really ...
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I am testing code that works in CF 11 for an upgrade to CF 2023. I have a component that extends another component and overrides the type of a property in the base component. Here is some simple pseudo code demonstrating the components: Base.cfc:
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<html> <div><p> Hi there</p> </div> </html>Sample code above has whitespace, which I need to get rid of. I've found various examples used in different code settings and tried plugging them into a CF REReplace() function, but n...
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I need to prepare html for sending via the Postmark API.Given the following:<cfset vHTML = "<html><body><div>This is html</div></body></html>">What would be the cleanest way to arrive at:
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I'm migrating from cf2021 Standard to cf2023 Standard and have a snag. If I try to utilize an ajax component it is throwing this error. It appears to be utilizing my virtual host as the location for the coldfusion scripts instead of the coldfusion install. I'm using...
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Where can I give Mock test for ColdFusion certification exam?
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We're upgrading from Coldfusion 2016 to 2023 for development on our laptops. We are attempting to make 2023 a silent install zip package. I've used the instructions here and was able to get into CFAdmin:
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Hi,We have certain values (e.g., '1002-1', '1002-2', ... '1002-12') that end up as -1 when added to a spreadsheet via spreadsheetAddRows. Weirdly, '1002-13' is fine. Maybe spreadsheetAddRows is making bad guesses about whether a value is text...
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