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2004-12-21T11:28:24

I hope I'm not pointing out the obvious to most, but the way I handle nesting is I have CFOUPUT as my outer layer, and nested query output, I just use a CFLOOP with query attribute. This allows me with with unlimited nesting with full control.

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2004-08-16T13:42:07

I know there are many CF developers and reqular users who encounter the problem of nesting CFOUTPUT statements. If it's one thing I know from my experience, it's that there is a way to do (almost) anything, and adding the capability of nesting CFOUTPUT statements would greatly bolster CF's power.

Specifically I am using a form to allow record editing. But I use a CFSELECT for a couple of fields. This should be possible. Thanks.

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evonbart — 2004-06-21T12:53:16

Interesting. Displaying data is probably one of THE most common function a developer will build into their application and nobody in the CF house has got it right yet.

Since there is no clearcut way to nest cfoutputs say from two unrelated queries, I'll have to devise another cockeyed method to display my data.

In ASP I can use either method of dumping the data into an array then display it OR just pull it straight from the database by wrapping one layer of output over another as many times as necessary. Either method took take less time to write than this comment will and both are as easy as the other.

CF, however, still - going on v6+ now, has not come close to making either method work properly (cfoutput or arrays) and I love spending hours and hours pouring through incomplete documentation to find I can't do what I need anyway. I will say their documentation has improved since when I started with v3.

If I had my say in what is used to build my apps it would never be CF just because of the terrible time I have finding decent dev documentation, both here and throughout the web . D minus guys!!

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eibhinn — 2003-11-14T10:30:47

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LisaJ — 2003-10-21T13:14:25

In reference to the cfoutput tag description, the text states "To nest cfoutput blocks, you must specify the group and query attributes at the top-most level, and the group attribute for each inner block except the innermost cfoutput block", but there is no example.
This is the type of complex code example that should be included in the reference guide so that the user doesn't have to pull out other books to see it in action.

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ctina — 2002-07-11T18:39:00

I entered bug 46802 to update DWA and/or Eon examples.
See also forums, several comments and code examples on this:
Search cfoutput AND group
http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/
--Christina

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sgilson102 — 2002-07-01T18:37:00

Folks, in trying to help point someone to some docs on using CFOUTPUT with the GROUP attribute, I was surprised to find that I couldn't find any example of it in the docs. There's none shown here, and despite even doing a search using the search features on my local copy of the docs, I couldn't find any example in the "Developing CF Apps" book.

Can you confirm if there is an example showing this elsewhere, and if so, offer a link here (in the comments and in future versions in the page itself). It's just not obvious to most folks how to interpret the instructions above about nesting CFOUTPUT within CFOUTPUT GROUP.