CF8 cfdocument tag has a few new bugs

Question

This discusses two new bugs in CF8 having to do with footers
in cfdocument.
***FIRST BUG***
With CFMX7, I could define a new footer by putting a new
<cfdocumentitem type="footer"> tag in each cfdocumentsection
of my pdf report. Each could have a different string, e.g., so that
the footer could tell the reader which chapter she is reading. This
does not work in CF8. The chapter name that appears on all pages is
the one defined in the last <cfdocumentitem type="footer">
tag in the cfdocument. Now only the page number changes
dynamically. Sample code:
<cfdocument format="pdf" unit="in" pagetype="letter"
marginbottom="0.8" marginleft="1" marginright="1"
margintop="0.8"
orientation="portrait" fontembed="yes" overwrite="yes"
filename="pdfbugdemo2.pdf" pageheight="11" pagewidth="8.5"
scale="100">
<cfdocumentsection>
<cfset footerContent="1. Introduction">
<cfdocumentitem type="footer">
<div style="float: left;">
<cfoutput>#footerContent#</cfoutput>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
<cfoutput>#cfdocument.currentpagenumber#</cfoutput>
</div>
</cfdocumentitem>
<h1>Introduction</h1>
</cfdocumentsection>
<cfdocumentsection>
<cfset footerContent="2. Body of Document">
<cfdocumentitem type="footer">
<div style="float: left;">
<cfoutput>#footerContent#</cfoutput>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
<cfoutput>#cfdocument.currentpagenumber#</cfoutput>
</div>
</cfdocumentitem>
<h1>Body of Document</h1>
</cfdocumentsection>
</cfdocument>
*** SECOND BUG ***
In CF8, you cannot cfinclude the same template multiple times
in a given template - you get an error (at least sometimes). A
workaround is to make multiple copies of the template, each with a
different name. This was not necessary in CFMX7. Sample code:
<cfdocument format="pdf" unit="in" pagetype="letter"
marginbottom="0.8" marginleft="1" marginright="1"
margintop="0.8"
orientation="portrait" fontembed="yes" overwrite="yes"
filename="pdfbugdemo2.pdf" pageheight="11" pagewidth="8.5"
scale="100">
<cfdocumentsection>
<cfset footerContent="1. Introduction">
<cfinclude template="pdfbugfooter.cfm">
<h1>Introduction</h1>
</cfdocumentsection>
<cfdocumentsection>
<cfset footerContent="2. Body of Document">
<cfinclude template="pdfbugfooter.cfm">
<h1>Body of Document</h1>
</cfdocumentsection>
</cfdocument>
where pdfbugfooter.cfm is:
<cfdocumentitem type="footer">
<div style="float: left;">
<cfoutput>#footerContent#</cfoutput>
</div>
<div style="float: right;">
<cfoutput>#cfdocument.currentpagenumber#</cfoutput>
</div>
</cfdocumentitem>

Answer 1

re: If you claim didn't say that,
No "if" about it - I made no such claim and never would -
thats just you
talking gibberish. Who in their right mind would say, or even
suggest, that
forums are not helpful. The only reason a forum exists in the
first place is
to be helpful!
re: So what was your actual intention in the first place?
Not sure you would undertsand, you seem to struggle to follow
along. But
just a hint for you - the forum posts, or quantity thereof,
have been used
by several people here, and by editors at sites such as
sitepoint.com, as a
metric to use to gague interest and activity. A metric only
useful when
taken in context with other pointers (job market, book
market, number of
classes still running, so on and so forth)
Again, nobody has ever said forums are not useful or helpful
- I suspect you
knew that much but felt the need to throw some nonsense about
in an attempt
at an argument - failed didn't it?
RE: Maybe they realized Ben Forta writes such a good books,
they felt
ashamed? :-)
The O'Reilly audience is typically seasoned developers, hard
core coders.
Their books are a tough read for beginners and O'Reilly
delibertately do not
cater to this audeince with many of their titles. And to put
it bluntly, the
main bunch of people to ditch CF early on were these "hard
core" types. I
belive this as the only CF developers I know are actually
more "designers"
than developers - I know of no professional coder/developers
that would
touch CF. Thats just my personal observation, btw.
re: From what I read, people are telling I'm right.
Are you crazy? They are all, at least 95%, in agreemenst that
Tim Buntel
needs to pick up the marketing act before CF dies. Seriously,
you do seem to
struggle to follow along at times - suggest you actually
read.
re: CF has always been "dead" in many places.
How can you always be dead, doesn't make sense! You have to
have lived in
order to die. There used to be hundreds of cf jobs advertised
here in
Australia every day, literally every day. Now you may see 3
or 4 each week -
mostly for migrating old cf sites to new asp.net or java
sites. And there is
no longer any CF classes advetised or held in nearly all
states - they
literally shut them down. I'm confident enough that the
comment "CF is dead"
is accurate.
r: Maybe you should be answering those questions, since you
seem to know
they're true, and I haven't heard of any such things.
I know the answers to all of those questions - becuase CF is
dying. If CF
were living, then none of those questions would have been
asked.
re: So you know they're not investing in one?
Yes, I know that. They will never spend that kind fo money on
coldfusion -
it just wouldn't be vaible for them. We're darned lucky that
still have
small team of enginners to write tags around the java
libraries and release
new versions. They are not actually going to start
"innovating" with CF in a
market like this - and I don't blame them.
"Fernis" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> >I never said you can't get help on the forums. Where
did you get that
> >from?
>
> If you claim didn't say that, and if you didn't even
mean that by saying
> "Forum averages about 3 new posts a day and has very
small community -
> very
> quiet.", why did you say such thing in the first place,
if it's totally
> irrelevant to all about getting help in the forums? So
what was your
> actual
> intention in the first place? Are you not reading what
other people are
> saying
> before responding? The rest of my post is really useless
compared to the
> finding that you just really do the trolling because you
like nit-picking.
> Unbelievable.
>
> >Why did O'Reilly pull their once popular CF book
from print and refuse to
> write any further CF books?
>
> Maybe they realized Ben Forta writes such a good books,
they felt ashamed?
> :-)
> I mean, if they were popular as you said.
>
> >No, its not not. Go here -
>
http://techfeed.net/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/22/Open-Letter-to-Tim-Buntel
> >- and see actual people tell you how wrong you are.
>
> From what I read, people are telling I'm right. So what
*you* say is
> downright
> silly.
>
> >But you seemed to be thing that I based my whole
argument that CF is weak
> >and
> dying
> >( is already dead in many places)
>
> CF has always been "dead" in many places. And it's been
dying for 10
> years -
> they say. So what's new? You just don't seem to
understand that random
> sites
> switching ColdFusion for something else doesn't mean
that at the same time
> there are likely new adopters of ColdFusion. You just
don't know about
> them,
> while you can more easily track if some of them go away.
You don't
> actually
> have anything but blind guesses about what's happening.
>
> I'm seeing more CF frameworks pop up as ever before. And
In Finland, I'm
> seeing more ColdFusion hosting appear than ever before.
>
> >Why did MM/Adobe pull an entire team of employees
out of Australia? Why
> >did
> >they stop printing ads in all of the trade
magazines? Why did MM push PHP
> >more than CF on their website?
>
> Maybe you should be answering those questions, since you
seem to know
> they're
> true, and I haven't heard of any such things.
>
> > Why don't they invest in an IDE to atract all those
developers out there
> that like a complete RAD platform?
> > So on and so forth???
>
> So you know they're not investing in one? And I thought
DreamWeaver would
> act
> as one? Or third party products like CFEclipse? Or
Adobe's IDE extensions
> for
> Eclipse? Sure, the CF IDE's lack behind the automation
and insight
> functionality of other IDEs, and that's something I'm
hoping for too...
> although I've always felt that strong IDEs are strictly
necessary only for
> programming languages where a huge number of
non-user-defined libraries
> and
> classes are to be referenced. The level of automation in
ColdFusion (lots
> of
> action with little code) make complex IDEs less
important than with most
> other
> languages.
>
> -Ari Ferneilus
>