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2006-11-13T09:44:47

Regarding PDF documents and CF5:

When calling a page to download or inline-display a PDF include the following text in the query string

nocache=no

Not that I really understand why it works but it does.

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psusemichel — 2005-08-23T07:32:02

Regarding CFHeader & CFContent, if I use the "inline" setting for the "value" property, the name that is displayed is the CF page name, not the file name. For example:

The Windows Media Player (WMP) opens and plays the file, however, the name that is displayed is "file_viewer.cfm" -- the name of my CF page. This seems to happen for Microsoft related applications -- MS Word, MS Excel, WMP, etc. However, PDF files and other non Microsoft files display the appropriate file name. Any ideas?

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xenden — 2005-08-14T16:42:22

If you're using cfcontent, be sure you've got debugging output turned off (cfsetting showdebugoutput=false, I think) or else it will contaminate the file you are trying to export to the browser. If you can download the file via FTP but not via HTTP, that might be it. :)

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cmschofield — 2005-06-16T20:50:21

jrunrandy's comments about dynamic PDF generation

That's cool about CFMX 7 PDF generation. Excellent feature. However, I need to populate fields in existing PDF documents with data from a database.

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jrunrandy — 2005-03-10T13:22:46

cmschofield's comment mentioned dynamically generating PDF files.

In ColdFusion MX 7, you can use the cfdocument tag or the cfreport tag
to generate PDF files dynamically.

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TomDonovan — 2005-03-08T07:34:50

re: How exactly does work when streaming files ...

In CFMX uses an 8kb buffer. It does not attempt to read the whole file into memory.

Note that one ColdFusion Simultaneous Request is occupied while a large file is sent using .

For some applications, it makes more sense to download the file with rather than . This lets the web server do the work rather than tying up a CF thread.

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2005-03-03T10:06:03

For all those having problems with filename and formatting here goes a tip.
This is the way I usually use these tags:

Put attention to the charset used, I think that's the native format for excel. This way he gets the info the way he wants and no format or filename problems should appear.
Hope this helps.

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perlyking — 2005-03-03T08:55:05

How exactly does work when streaming files back to the client? Is the file read into RAM as a whole, or are chunks read from disk and buffered?
This is an important issue for me becasue I need to stream large files (200mb+) and I don't want multiple concurrent downloads to kill the server.

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cmschofield — 2005-02-07T15:39:54

IE 6.0 will try to save the .cfm file if the Content-Type is not specified as PDF while using . I found that this happened only while using SSL. Thus, the following code correctly references the proper PDF. In our secure environment, the PDF files are dynamically created, displayed to the user, and then deleted.

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lgardne — 2005-02-04T10:03:10

I am using a cfcontent tag to open an excel spreadsheet. My hyperlinks break because they change to the file///C:\.
How can I maintain my original hyperlinks???

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Mandy35679 — 2005-01-26T12:46:26

You can add the logo by referencing the entire url for your image not just the filename.

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2005-01-11T22:20:12

I am developing an application which will download the contents of the report to an excel file.Everything is working fine.. But the thing is i have to add the company logo to the excel file. how can i add the logo from the webpage to the excel file being downloaded. Please help me as soon as possible.

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a.s.webster — 2004-10-14T13:56:00

This is what I use in CFMX and IE 6.0.28xxx

It shows the files as filename.xls in excel.

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2004-10-14T09:16:41

DOWNLOADING TO EXCEL

Many thaks to those who contributed ideas on how to get cfcontent to
work with Excel in IE. It works, now, but still has the .cfm name and type if the file opened by Excel. It appears the CFHEADED works to force Xcel to open the file, but still Xcel thinks it is a CFM file. This is why it gets saved as a text file, as another user commented.

Any ideas on how to get Xcel to open the downloaded file with the proper name and type?

thanks

Bill Richardson
Blacksburg VA

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2004-10-14T09:12:19

PDF ??

I have never been able to get the PDF download o work. Any suggestions or commentys?

thanks

Bill Richardson
Blacksburg VA

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G0V. — 2004-09-20T08:14:27

I used it like this to prevent to be able to download the file whitout being loged in, it also deletes the file after being created and downoaded, the file is actualy saved "outside" teh application root

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G0V. — 2004-09-20T08:10:58

This works fine on cf MX using several browsers from IE6 to Firefox 1.0 and Netscape 7.2 :

kuech said on Dec 31, 2003 at 11:20 AM :
The following should force the download of an Excel of Word document:

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2004-07-06T21:57:13

I have try using the CFCONTENT example 3 posted by lbryngel. It did allow users to save into their harddisk in excel file extension but when users started to admend and update the downloaded file and saved it, it becomes a txt file. Anyone knows what is wrong??

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2004-06-09T15:05:51

raas1,

Acho que ninguem sabem como a falar em portugues aqui.

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raas1 — 2004-04-27T13:32:43

Eu gostaria de saber se na tag "" teria como eu utilizar uma formatação para que ele não seja impresso em formato hexadecimal!!

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Showfax TJ — 2004-03-17T11:02:08

Try inserting a line break after the opening cfoutput tag

line of text

The cfoutput will copy exactly what's between the cfoutput tags, which above is [(linebreak)line of text]

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DonaldBoers — 2004-03-12T02:36:55

I use the download repeat region extension:

Name,Principal,address 1,address 2,address 3,postal code,city,district,country
#rsSchools.schoolname#, #rsSchools.principal#, #rsSchools.address1#, #rsSchools.address2#, #rsSchools.address3#, #rsSchools.postalcode#, #rsSchools.city#, #rsSchools.district#, #rsSchools.country#

Everything works well, only the result is a long row with all the data.
I want (ofcourse every) record on a separate line.

Tom Muck in his explanation of the extension uses ASP and adds <%=vbcrlf%> before the .
How can I translate this to Coldfusion?

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billsun — 2004-03-02T13:46:00

I am using a CFCONTENT tag to try to gererate an Excel document which data come from SQL query. It works fine in Cold fusion 5.
But it doesn't work with CFMX + websphere (windows 2k)
my code look like:
------------------

........

------------------------------------------------------

any idea
thanks in advance
my email : bill_sun@businteractive.com

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lbryngel — 2004-02-20T05:34:34

We are working to improve the examples in the ColdFusion reference pages. We propose to replace/add the current example on this page with the the following examples. If you have any comments on this example, add them to this page.

If these examples are added please maintain/add spaces between examples because code can only run on seperate CFM pages. Made code corrections/additions to first two examples and added 3 new.

cfcontent Example 2

This example shows how the Reset attribute changes output for text.

reset = "Yes": 123
456

This example shows how the Reset attribute changes output for text.

reset = "No": 123
456

Month	Quantity	$ Sales
January	80	$245
February	100	$699
March	230	$2036
Total	=Sum(B2..B4)	=Sum(C2..C4)

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lbryngel — 2004-02-19T12:12:11

Proposed corrections:

"For more information on character encodings, see the following web pages:"

The last part that mentions java should include the 1.4.2 specs as well.

CFMX 6.0 Updater 3 uses JDK 1.3 see this for encoding
java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html

CFMX 6.1 uses JDK 1.4.2 see this for encoding support:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html

REMOVE NOTE:
"Note: This tag executes only if it is enabled in the ColdFusion Administrator. For more information, see Configuring and Administering ColdFusion MX"

The "Tag Restriction" page is not in CFMX 6.x Adminstrator - it was only in CF 5. To restrict this tag in CFMX use Sandbox Security.

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bougrinea — 2004-01-23T12:35:44

I am using a CFCONTENT tag to try to open an Excel document. It works fine in any browser except Internet Explorer.

The code is:

When Netscape/Mozilla opens it, I get the popup dialog asking what I would like to do. However, when Internet Explorer opens it, I get output similar to the following:

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Any ideas as to how to get IE to behave would be greatly appreciated. I am running IE 6.0.2800.1106 with SP1.

Thanks.

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kuech — 2003-12-31T11:20:49

The following should force the download of an Excel of Word document:

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sammyishere — 2003-12-02T10:55:58

CFContent has some problems. I have scoured the forums and looked in many other places but I cannot render an excel or msword page into IE5 browser. I used to do it in cf5.0 but MX is still buggy. Then simple code below does not work!!!! Macromedia are you reading this??? If so you can reach me at sammyishere@Hotmail.com, my client is considering other application servers.!

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