[cf8]custom tag outputs generatedContent twice

my custom tag is outputting the generatedContent twice. but
not anything in the tag, just what was between the calling tags.
It runs the tag once, but before it outputs the stuff in the
end portion, it outputs just what was between the calling tags.
Im working in cf8 developer on my local
If I do this:
<cfelseif thistag.executionmode is "end">
<cfset thisTag.content = thisTag.generatedContent>
<cfset thisTag.generatedContent = "">
it seems to work, but is that a good work around? This never
happened in mx7

That is documented behavior of a custom tag. The code is run
once at
the opening of the tag "<cf_marketingcolumn>" and once
at the closing of
the tag "</cf_marketingcolumn>".
That is the purpose of the thistag.executionmode property. It
allows
you to designate when a given piece of the custom tag should
be run.
The code you have outside your if block is going to be run
both times
the custom tag is called.
This is throughly explained with examples in the
documentation. If you
do not have one the internet does.
[Stolen from I forget who without permission]

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Get an IntelMac and a Blu-ray burner, install Adobe Encore or Toast 10 Pro.
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Message was edited by: David Harbsmeier

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custom tag and it was picked up this time - I don't know what
happened before. The functionality works as expected but I have hit
another problem and I am hoping I can tap your combined ColdFusion
wisdom to solve!!
The calendar returns leave records for staff and filters the
records using a querystring variable appended when the user clicks
on a particular month. However, what members of staff the user sees
depends on the data held in the users' session variables based on
their authority. The reason I wanted to use caching is because the
page takes a good ten seconds to run because of the use of cfloops
for the members of staff and the days of the week to dynamically
build the page. Using the custom tag would have worked if all
members of staff saw the same calendar data and could only see one
month. Can you see anyway I can speed up the page and do you think
caching is the way forward here?

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makes a text passed to it to the color red.
The calling code looks like this:
Main page<br>
<cf_make_red result="myVar">
Dont mess with the Zohan!!!
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back to the main page<br>
The code in make_red.cfm looks something like this:
<cfoutput>
<hr>
ThisTag.ExecutionMode is #ThisTag.ExecutionMode#<br>
ThisTag.GeneratedContent is
#ThisTag.GeneratedContent#<br>
<hr>
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<cfif structkeyexists(attributes,"result")>
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Doing a little more experimentation, I discovered that pageContext is null in the constructor, but not null in the otherDoStartTagOperations() method (called by the doStartTag() method of the tag's class... it's something Forte forces you to do).
Is this normal? I was under the impression that pageContext is supposed to be defined EVERYWHERE in any class that extends BodyTagSupport... including the class' own constructor.
On a related topic, is there documentation somewhere as to what, exactly, Forte is doing behind the scenes when it's managing a taglib (how it keeps track of them, where it puts config files, how the entries it makes in them are different or extended from the normal layout, etc.)? At the moment, I suspect that half of the grief I'm having with writing taglibs is caused by Forte itself forcing me to do things in a roundabout way that bears little resemblance to the ways shown in different books on the topic (and in fact all but ensures that nearly every published example will fail and require major rewriting because of the way it forces tag classes to be structured), but I don't see any easy way to let Forte handle compiling the classes and testing them with its embedded Tomcat, but do the config file housekeeping myself I can be in control of it.

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