Cffile action = "upload"

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7 38f.html

Wow, I just noticed that this page makes no mention of the new STRICT attribute added in CF10 for CFFILE action="upload". I also checked and find no reference to it in the Developing CF Apps manual. There's a brief mention of it in the main page for CFFILE here in the CFML Reference, but it doesn't explain what the feature does. It seems (for now) that the best resource may be the blog entry from Sagar Ganatra, who was an Adobe engineer: http://www.sagarganatra.com/2012/03/coldfusion-10-cffile-restricting-file.html

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CFfile multiple upload problem

Hello~
I am using two cfinput tags with a type of "file" within the same form. They accept different file types, using regex validation to check each, and have different name and id values.
<cfinput type="file" name="pageLayoutCSSFileUpload" class="inputArea" message="Please upload a .css file." required="yes" size="50" id="pageLayoutCSSFileUpload" validate="regex" pattern="^.*\.(css|CSS)$" /><cfinput type="file" name="pageLayoutImageUpload" class="inputArea" message="Please upload a layout image (.gif)." required="yes" size="50" id="pageLayoutImageUpload" validate="regex" pattern="^.*\.(gif|GIF)$" />
Once the form is submitted, I am using cffile to upload each to the same directory, with the same name, but different extensions (one .css and one .gif). The first file, .css, uploads correctly. Then I get an error with the second cffile tag that the mime-type is incorrect, and that the file must be in the image/gif format. I know that the test files I am using are in the correct format, so it seems like the second cffile tag is looking at the first file that is being uploaded. I don't know how this can happen, as the "file" value for each cffile tag is being set through a form variable, which relates directly to the two seperate input fields.

<cffile action="upload" destination="#local.pageLayoutsPath#pageLayout_#numberFormat(local.layoutID,000)#" file="#form.pageLayoutCSSFileUpload#" nameconflict="error" result="local.pageLayoutCSSFileUpload" accept="text/css" />

<cffile action="upload" destination="#local.pageLayoutsPath#pageLayout_#numberFormat(local.layoutID,000)#" file="#form.pageLayoutImageUpload#" nameconflict="error" result="local.pageLayoutImageUpload" accept="image/gif" />
Has anyone else had this problem? It is complicated to explain, so let me know if this doesn't make sense... Thanks!

According to the docs (and my past experience):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-73 8f.html
<cffile action="upload"> requires a FILEFIELD attribute, which should be the name of the form field relevant to the file in question. Note: not the VALUE of the form field, but the NAME of it.
I'm surprised your code isn't erroring, given FILEFIELD is - appaerently - required.
Adam

Confused about cffileupload & cffile action="uploadall"

I'm trying to figure out how to use cffileupload so I have a braindead .cfm file:
<cffileupload
    url="uploadFiles.cfm"
    progressbar="true"
    name="myupload"
    addButtonLabel = "Add File"
    clearButtonlabel = "Clear All"
    width=600
    height=400
    title = "File Upload"
    maxuploadsize="30"
    extensionfilter="*.jpg, *.png, *.flv, *.txt"
    BGCOLOR="##FFFFFF"
    MAXFILESELECT=10
    UPLOADBUTTONLABEL="Upload now"/>
which is the one from the documentation page. Where I'm losing it is in the processing file.
If the file contains only:
<cffile action="uploadall" destination="c:/testload" nameConflict="overwrite">
the files upload and no problems. The issue is that I want to do additional processing on
each file after it arrives. I've tried this:
<cfoutput>
<cffile action="uploadall" destination="c:/testload" nameConflict="overwrite">
<cfimage source="C:/testload/#CFFile.serverfile#" action="resize" width="300" height="" destination="c:/testload/small.jpg" overwrite="yes">
</cfoutput>
and the CFFILEUPLOAD status bar shows an HTTP 500 error.
Is the uploadFiles.cfm called for each file individually, i.e., if I upload
3 files, is it invoked three times? If so, how do I access the server side file name? If I use
CFFILE.serverFile, I get a HTTP 500 error. Or is this an array or CFFILE structures? I've
tried multiple different approaches and all I get is the HTTP 500 error. None of the examples
I can find explain this or show readable code. Thanks.

Of all the CF tags I've used, this one is the biggest pain
because when it thows an error, there is very little information
to help you track it down. All that happens is the progress bar
turn red and (in my experience) shows a 500 error. Not terribly
illuminating. The way I was finally able to debug it was to start
at the absolute minimum. The example on the web:
http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/multi-file-uploads-with-coldfusion-9
-in-5-lines
is the absolute minimum. I put this into two files, one with the
CFFILEUPLOAD code and the other with the CFFILE UPLOADALL code.
Once I had that working on my testing server, I then began to add
other real code. Again, the challenge is that if you make so much
as one typo (leaving off a # is my bane) in the CFFILE UPLOADALL file, you
get the same red
process bar with a 500 error. So, in the braindead exploration code,
I hard coded the destination, etc., etc., and then started adding to
it.
BTW, another thing that I discovered that may be tripping you up is if
you're
trying to pass parameters on the URL paramter of the CFFILEUPLOAD. You might
want to look at this:
http://www.coldfusioning.com/index.cfm/2009/8/24/cffileupload-Passing-Multip
le-URL-Parameters
Hope this helps! As I said, this tag was a real bear to use but once
you wade through all the black holes, it's pretty neat.
Steve Haeffele
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Using CFFILE To Upload a Full Directory

I am attempting to build a process to load multiple files
from a directory. It is easy enough to use looping processes with
multiple <input type="file".... tags (or even a single tag
looped over multiple times) in both the form and the action page.
However, I want to use a single action to load all files in a
specified directory on the client desktop to the server. Is there a
standard process or does anyone know a CFC or CFX tag? Note, this
will be used with both MX7 and CF 5 servers.
Thanks,

klltkd wrote:
> I am attempting to build a process to load multiple
files from a directory. It
> is easy enough to use looping processes with multiple
<input type="file"....
> tags (or even a single tag looped over multiple times)
in both the form and the
> action page.
>
> However, I want to use a single action to load all files
in a specified
> directory on the client desktop to the server. Is there
a standard process or
> does anyone know a CFC or CFX tag? Note, this will be
used with both MX7 and CF
> 5 servers.
>
> Thanks,
>
Unless you are working within a well defined network where
ColdFusion
can access the client machine by UNC path, then ColdFusion is
not
involved in this. You are looking for a client solution that
will
create the upload. After that it looks the same to
ColdFusion.
I am not personally aware of any client tools like you
describe. There
are security concerns when one makes it too convienant to
programatically select what is uploaded to a remote computer.

Custom Actions upload error in 12.2

Hello!
I have error while uploading custom action in MII 12.2:
[005056A30000244C0000000D00001398] File could not be loaded. com.sap.xmii.temp.upload.17164.jar. Check error log for details.
There are 3 error and warning types in Log Viewer:
1) Could Not Find Assembly File GaCustoms.jar
2) MISSING_ASSEMBLY_FILE
3) *** MISSING RESOURCE: Unable to localize MISSING_ASSEMBLY_FILE

It works normaly with MII 12.1.8.
I've got new blssdk.zip from 12.2 and just recreated .jar file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ComponentCatalog>
     <Category Name="GaCustoms" Description="GaCustoms">
          <Component Type="Action"
               Name="DosEncodingSaver"
               Description=""
               Label="DosEncodingSaver"
               ClassName="DosEncodingSaver.DosEncodingSaver"
               AssemblyName="GaCustoms.jar"
               HelpFileName="" />
          <Component Type="Action"
               Name="Base64Saver"
               Description=""
               Label="Base64Saver"
               ClassName="Base64Saver.Base64Saver"
               AssemblyName="GaCustoms.jar"
               HelpFileName="" />
     </Category>
</ComponentCatalog>
Edited by: A.Andreev on Nov 11, 2011 10:55 AM

How do I use CFTHREAD in combination with CFFILE Upload

I've been reading how CFTHREAD is supposed to release the
client so that long-lasting operations like a CFFILE upload can
continue to do their business while the client does something else.
How does this work exactly? I can't find any concrete
references. For example, I have a regular file upload form. A user
uploads a large file, say 100Mb, and I want to use CFTHREAD (or
something) to handle the upload process, which I know may take
hours depending on the connection, and immediately return the page
for the client saying "Your file is being processed. Please check
back later."
I tried wrapping some CFFILE code with CFTHREAD, but when I
ran it the page just sat there working while the file was being
uploaded, so I did not witness any change whatsoever in how its
being handled. What am I missing?
<cfthread action="run" name="uploadVideo">
<cffile
action="upload"
destination = "/var/www/video1/assetsIN"
nameconflict="overwrite"
filefield="video" />
</cfthread>
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: I asked Ben Forta this in an email yesterday and here
was his response:
What you are doing is correct. The actual file processing
(getting the uploaded file) will not happen in a separate thread.
Were you expecting a separate thread for the upload itself? CF
can’t do that for you s CF does not have the file until it is
uploaded. Actually, CF is not even called until the form is
submitted (which includes the file being uploaded). It sounds like
you want the browser to do an upload in the background. This may be
doable using JavaScript and Ajax type controls. Or maybe using
browser tabs or something. -Ben

With file uploads the time consumption is between the client
PC and the web
server, not the web server and the CF server (which are
usually on the same
machine). All <cffile action="upload"> does is copy the
uploaded file from
the web server's temp upload dir to [wherever you tell it to
go]: it's a
local process, and should be fairly quick; certainly compared
to the
process of getting it to the web server in the first place.
Even if the data transmission was between the client PC and
the CF server,
you can't expect <cfthread> to somehow increase the
bandwitdh and speed up
the file upload between the two machines.
<cfthread> could come into its own if you had some file
processing to
perform on the file *after* it's uploaded: unzipping it,
doing some image
manipulation, parsing a CSV file into a DB, that sort of
thing. Not for
the initial upload.
Adam

Multiple cffile upload issues

Hello all. I'm having a little issue with a multiple upload I
am trying to achieve. I've been searching and searching but could
not find an answer, and maybe you guys could help me. Well I'm
doing multiple uploads on a form i created and it's uploading the
file and file name correctly, but it's inserting 6 records
everytime I'm hitting the submit button. Also, I've notice in my
database is when you click the submit button, it's inserting the
same file in one record 6 times, then it creates a new record and
inserts the second file 6 times. I'm going to post the code here,
maybe it's something I'm missing, not sure. Thanks for the help.

dame.cranon wrote:
> Hello all. I'm having a little issue with a multiple
upload I am trying to
> achieve. I've been searching and searching but could not
find an answer, and
> maybe you guys could help me. Well I'm doing multiple
uploads on a form i
> created and it's uploading the file and file name
correctly, but it's inserting
> 6 records everytime I'm hitting the submit button. Also,
I've notice in my
> database is when you click the submit button, it's
inserting the same file in
> one record 6 times, then it creates a new record and
inserts the second file 6
> times. I'm going to post the code here, maybe it's
something I'm missing, not
> sure. Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="6">
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.upload")>
>
> <cffile action="upload"
> destination="D:\Hosting\streetzmag\dev\crush_images\"
> filefield="pic#i#"
> nameconflict="makeunique"
> result="cffile.pic#i#"
> accept="image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/gif" >
>
> 
> <cfquery datasource="mysqlcf_streetzmag"
name="uploaded">
> INSERT INTO Information(firstname,
> lastname,
> email,
> contact_info,
> nickname,
> recent_work,
> hair_color,
> eye_color,
> ethnicity,
> age,
> height,
> measurements,
> pic_1,
> pic_2,
> pic_3,
> pic_4,
> pic_5,
> pic_6
>
>
> )
> VALUES('#FORM.firstname#',
> '#FORM.lastname#',
> '#FORM.email#',
> '#FORM.contact#',
> '#FORM.nickname#',
> '#FORM.work#',
> '#FORM.hair#',
> '#FORM.eye#',
> '#FORM.ethnic#',
> #FORM.age#,
> '#FORM.height#',
> '#FORM.measurements#',
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>,
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>,
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>,
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>,
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>,
>
> <cfif isDefined("form.pic#i#") and
evaluate("form.pic#i#") NEQ "">
> <cfqueryparam
value="#CFFILE['pic'&i].SERVERFILE#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
> />
> <cfelse>
> NULL
> </cfif>
>
> )
> </cfquery>
> </cfif>
> </cfloop>
>
of course it will do everything 6 times since you have your
whole code
wrapped with cfloop from 1 to 6... so the code execution will
happen 6
times... plus your synatx for inserting filenames inside your
query
makes it insert same file 6 times (since the code is inside
one same
cfloop)...
you should separate your code and wrap only the cffile part
in a cfloop:
<cfif isDefined("form.upload")>
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="6">
<cfif len(trim(form.pic#i#)) gt 0>
<cffile action="upload"
destination="D:\Hosting\streetzmag\dev\crush_images\"
filefield="pic#i#"
nameconflict="makeunique"
result="uploadedpic_#i#"
accept="image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/gif" >
</cfif>
</cfloop>

<cfquery datasource="mysqlcf_streetzmag"
name="uploaded">
INSERT INTO Information
(firstname,
lastname,
email,
contact_info,
nickname,
recent_work,
hair_color,
eye_color,
ethnicity,
age,
height,
measurements,
pic_1,
pic_2,
pic_3,
pic_4,
pic_5,
pic_6)
VALUES('#FORM.firstname#',
'#FORM.lastname#',
'#FORM.email#',
'#FORM.contact#',
'#FORM.nickname#',
'#FORM.work#',
'#FORM.hair#',
'#FORM.eye#',
'#FORM.ethnic#',
#FORM.age#,
'#FORM.height#',
'#FORM.measurements#',
<cfloop from="1" to="6" index="x">
<cfif isdefined("uploadedpic_#x#")>
<cfqueryparam value="#evaluate('uploadedpic_' & x)#"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"/>
<cfelse>
NULL
</cfif>
<cfif x lt 6>,</cfif>
</cfloop>)
</cfquery>
</cfif>
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

Cffunction adn cffile upload

Hello to everyone !
I have a problem to upload a file with cffunction :
i created a cfc with a function 'upload' :
<cffunction name="upload" access="remote"
returntype="void">
<cfargument name="image_big" type="any" required="no">
<cffile action="upload" fileField="#arguments.image_big#"
destination = "mylocation" nameConflict="overwrite"
accept="image/*">
</cffunction>
but it doesn’t work with out submitting the form ..
pleas help ..
thanks !

I believe you need to have the file submitted via a form if
you want to use the <cffile action="upload" fileField="">
method of cffile. Otherwise, how will the server gain access to the
file itself?

Need Help on cffile upload, destination to another server

Anyone know why get this error? The specified directory attribute value Z:\Project_X\UploadFile\DlrPayInq\ could not be created.
The setup of my server is as below : -
I'm trying to use cffile to upload a file where by the destination i declare is located at another server which is my file server.
i had create a mapping from my application server to the file server as Z:.
<cfset dlrPayInq_w = "Z:\Project_X\UploadFile\DlrPayInq\">
<cfif trim(fileName) NEQ "">
     <cfif directoryexists(dlrPayInq_w)>
<cfelse>
    
    <cfdirectory action = "create"
    directory = "#dlrPayInq_w#">
</cfif>
<cffile action="UPLOAD" filefield="fileName" destination="#dlrPayInq_w#" nameconflict="overwrite">
I had grant the folder permision to User type USER with Full Control, i can login as a normal window user and create files at Z:\Project_X\UploadFile\DlrPayInq\ manually.
But when i try to upload file using cffile in my program, i hit this error The specified directory attribute value Z:\Project_X\UploadFile\DlrPayInq\ could not be created. Actually the folder DlrPayInq is already exist in that fileserver, how come CF trying to create again?
I try to remove this code
<cfif trim(fileName) NEQ "">
     <cfif directoryexists(dlrPayInq_w)>
<cfelse>
    
    <cfdirectory action = "create"
    directory = "#dlrPayInq_w#">
</cfif>
and i get another error, CFFILE atttribute error.
Any expert can help? Thanks for advanced.

To expand on tclaremont's reply. "Z:" that you are using is a mapped drive and mapped drives are user specific. So as well as making sure that ColdFusion is running as a user that has permissions to the remote server, you would have to log into the server using ColdFusions user account and create the mapped drive under that user.
Most people don't bother with mapped drivers but rather use UNC path syntax. Which would looks something like "\\MyRemoteServersName\Project_X\UploadFile\DirPayInq\"

How To Access Uploaded File Data Prior To CFFILE

Hi:
Can anyone say why #GetHttpRequestData().content# is empty when I upload files using the conventional input type="file" and form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" HTML?
My goal is to inspect the binary data before using cffile action="upload". Is there a way to do this through CF or perhaps Java? Thanks.

Supposing the form field is <input type="file" name="myUpload">, then you could simply intercept the uploaded binary like this:

<cffile action="read" file="#form.myUpload#" variable="binaryData">

<cfdump var="#binaryData#">
<cffile action = "upload"
fileField = "myUpload"
destination = ... etc.>

Time cffile upload

Hi everyone,
I want to time the upload time when using CFFILE
I thought I could take the tome before the cffile tag and then take the time after the cffile tg and use the Datediff to get the upload time in seconds. See example below. But this gives me 0 seconds.
------------- Example ------------
<cfset startTime = Now()>
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<cfset endTime = Now()>
<cfset uploadTime = DateDiff("s", startTime, endTime)>
How can I time the upload time?
Thanks!

The CFFILE tag that processes the upload doesn't actually have anything to do with receiving the file. By the time CF runs, the request has already been received in full by the web server.
So, you need to do your timing from the client in this case, not the web server. There are plenty of timing tools for Firefox and presumably Chrome as well. Load test tools do client-side timing as well.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/

Is there a way to silently upload files?

Ok, so I've taken the plunge. I've started working on an AIR
app using Flash CS3. I'm putting together a little app that will
keep my online store updated with all the product updates from our
wholesaler. This includes parsing a csv file, downloading product
images from the wholesaler, updating the database, and then
uploading the images to our server.
The problem is that AIR does not seem to have the
functionality to silently upload files! Sure, I can use the
file.reference object to fire off the browse method, which then
opens the OS file browser window BUT I would really like the whole
thing to be hands off. In the past, I've written these types of
apps using Visual Studio but I haven't touched VS in two years.
Has anyone run across a way to silently upload or ftp files
in AIR?

Hey Oliver,
Thanks for your answer--the fact that it CAN be done has
gotten me a lot further on finding a solution. Here's what I have
so far. As it runs, I can see the progress and completion of the
upload but I'm still not getting it saved. I'm uploading it to a
ColdFusion processing page.
AS3 Code:
import flash.filesystem.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
//Silent File Upload (no browse window)
function imageUpload(imageName,uploadPage):void
trace('Starting Upload of ' + imageName + '\n');
var myFile:File =
File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(imageName);
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(uploadPage);
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
myFile.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,progressHandler);
myFile.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,completeHandler);
myFile.upload(request,"theFile");
function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void {
var file:FileReference = FileReference(event.target);
var pLoaded =
Math.ceil(event.bytesLoaded/event.bytesTotal*100);
trace(pLoaded + '% uploaded');
function completeHandler(event:Event):void
trace ('Upload complete.');
var uploadPage = "
http://www.aaronbday.com/upload_file.cfm";
imageUpload("angelic_cat.jpg",uploadPage);
Here's the CFM page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Upload File</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfif isDefined("form.theFile")>

<cffile
action="upload"
destination="#ExpandPath("test/")#"
filefield="theFile"
nameconflict="overwrite"
accept="image/jpg,image/jpeg,image/gif,image/pjpeg"
>
<cfoutput><img src="test/#cffile.serverFile#"
/></cfoutput>
<cfelse>
<form method="post" action="upload_file.cfm"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="theFile" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" />
</form>
</cfif>
</body>
</html>
Any ideas? Thanks!

How can I upload an .jpg file to server from browser?

Hi!
I am trying to create a webpage whereby myself or any one of my managers can easily create an e-mail & send to our client database. I would like to be able to upload an image to be included with the email, which I have been trying to do using <cffile>, but I get an error message:
Security: The requested template has been denied access to http:\***MY WEB ADDRESS****.
I'm assuming that this is an issue with my hosting server, but I fail to see a way round it as I cannot add ftp login data to a <cffile> tag.
I have also tried to do the same thing with <cfftp> tag including the ftp login data, but this returns an error whereby the website cannot access the file from my hard drive.
Does anyone have a solution?

What does your code look like? Something like this?
<cfif isDefined("form.image") >
    <cffile action = "upload"
        fileField = "image"
        destination = "c:\uploads\images"
        accept = "image/jpg,image/pjpeg,image/jpeg"
        nameConflict = "MakeUnique">
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<cfelse>
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        name="uploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <cfinput name="image" type="file">
        <br><br>
        <cfinput name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload image">
    </cfform>
</cfif>

Uploading a file, renaming it and placing it in a particular location on server

A user submits a file from a front end HTML form which has fields like Division, Department name, department number,
section number, year, email, phone etc. The file being submitted might have a user given name. But, when it is
uploaded I want it to be named as Departmentname_departmentnumber_sectionnumber. So, if department is Accounting,
dept number is 123 and section is 1, name of file will be Accounting_123_1.doc The extension will be whatever type
of file(text, MS-Word's .doc or .docx, PDF or RTF) was submitted and the user can upload attachments of files with
extension .txt, .doc, .docx, pdf, rtf only.
Also, I want it to be stored on a particular location on server. So, if Division is Corporate Finance and year is
2011-2012 it should be stored on server at "E:\Files Submitted\2011-2012\Corporate Finance\". The "E:\Files
Submitted\" part remains same in the directory name.
<cfset submittedfileName =
#form.departmentname#&"_"&#form.departmentnumber#&"_"&#form.section_number_1#&"."&#cffile. ClientFileExt#>
<cfset filedirectoryYear = "E:\Files Submitted\"&#form.current_year#&"\"&#form.division#&"\">

<cfif FORM.attachment_1 neq "">
       <cffile action="upload"
               accept="text/plain,application/msword,application/pdf,application/rtf"
                 filefield="attachment_1"
                 destination="E:\temp\uploads"
                 nameconflict="Makeunique"
        >

        <cffile
action="rename"
source="E:\temp\uploads\#cffile.serverFileName#"
destination=#filedirectoryYear#&#submittedfileName#&#cffile.ClientFileExt#
>

<cfset attachment_local_file_1 = #filedirectoryYear#&#submittedfileName#&#cffile.ClientFileExt#>
</cfif>
I used the cffile.ClientFileExt because the files were getting uploaded without the extension but am receiving an
error at   destination=#filedirectoryYear#&#submittedfileName#&#cffile.ClientFileExt# as "multiple items at this
position: Missing Token > or /> .
I am using Coldfusion 8. Any suggestions would be appreciated on where I am erring and how I can fix it.

Thanks Dan,
The space between 'l' and 'e' was a formatting error while I was pasting text to this forum.
Currently, I have
<cfset filedirectoryYear = "E:\Files Submitted\"&#form.current_year#&"\"&#form.division#&"\">
<cfif FORM.attachment_1 neq "">
       <cffile action="upload"
               accept="text/plain,application/msword,application/pdf,application/rtf "
                 filefield="attachment_1"
                 destination="E:\temp\uploads"
                 nameconflict="Makeunique"
        >

<cfset submittedfileName =
#form.departmentname#&"_"&#form.departmentnumber#&"_"&#form.section_number_1#&"."&#cffile. ClientFileExt#>
<cfset presentfileName = #cffile.serverFileName#&"."&#cffile.ClientFileExt#>
        <cffile
action="rename"
source="E:\temp\uploads\#presentfileName#"
destination=#filedirectoryYear##submittedfileName#
>

<cfset attachment_local_file_1 = #filedirectoryYear#&#submittedfileName#&#cffile.ClientFileExt#>
</cfif>
<cfset attachment_local_file_1 = #filedirectoryYear#&#submittedfileName#>
When I submit, I get the error message
"Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE.
The value of the attribute source, which is currently c:\Course Syllabi\uploads\Web Based System Two Page HandOut.pdf, is invalid and the line below is referred.
destination="#filedirectoryYear##submittedfileName#"
The filedirectoryYear path exists i.e. I have E:\Files Submitted\2011-2012\Finance. What could be the issue?
P.S. I got it working, The filedirectoryYear path value was not the actual directory path\name in the filesystem. Once I had the
correct name in the filesystem, the application worked fine.

Problem with Multi File upload example, help needed

I got the code from the following location.....
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/multifile_upload.html
And I've got it to work to some degree except I cant get the file transfer to work when pressing, Upload.   Below is what my debugger outputs. Any thoughts on how to fix this or even what it means?
At the very bottom of this message is the upload.cfm code.......
Thanks in advance for the help
<html>
<head>
<title>Products - Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Sorry</h2>
<p>An error occurred when you requested this page.
Please email the Webmaster to report this error.
We will work to correct the problem and apologize
for the inconvenience.</p>
<table border=1>
<tr><td><b>Error Information</b> <br>
Date and time: 12/07/09 22:25:51 <br>
Page: <br>
Remote Address: 67.170.79.241 <br>
HTTP Referer: <br>
Details: ColdFusion cannot determine how to process the tag <CFDOCUMENT>. The tag name may be misspelled.<p>If you are using tags whose names begin with CF but are not ColdFusion tags you should contact Allaire Support. <p>The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFDOCUMENT), occupying document position (41:4) to (41:70).<p>The specific sequence of files included or processed is:<code><br><strong>D:\hshome\edejham7\edeweb.com\MultiFileUpload\upload.cfm      </strong></code><br>
<br>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

<cftry>

    <cffile action="upload"
            filefield="filedata"
            destination="#ExpandPath('\')#MultiFileUpload\uploadedfiles\"
            nameconflict="makeunique"
            accept="application/octet-stream"/>
        
        <cfset acceptedFileExtensions = "jpg,jpeg,gif,png,pdf,flv,txt,doc,rtf"/>
        <cfset filecheck = listFindNoCase(acceptedFileExtensions,File.ServerFileExt)/>

        <cfif filecheck eq false>
            <cffile action="delete" file="#ExpandPath('\')#MultiFileUpload\uploadedfiles\#File.ServerFile#"/>
        </cfif>

        <cfcatch type="any">
            <cfdocument format="PDF" overwrite="yes" filename="errordebug.pdf">
                <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"/>
            </cfdocument>
        </cfcatch>
</cftry>

Just 2 things in my test:
1) I use no accept attribute. Coldfusion is then free to upload any extenstion.
Restricting the type to application/octet-stream may generate errors. Also, it is unnecessary, because we perform a type check anyway.
2) I have used #ExpandPath('.')#\ in place of #ExpandPath('\')#
<cfif isdefined("form.filedata")>
<cftry>
<cffile action="upload"
            filefield="filedata"
            destination="#expandPath('.')#\MultiFileUpload\uploadedfiles\"
            nameconflict="makeunique">
        
        <cfset acceptedFileExtensions = "jpg,jpeg,gif,png,pdf,flv,txt,doc,rtf"/>
        <cfset filecheck = listFindNoCase(acceptedFileExtensions,File.ServerFileExt)/>

        <cfif filecheck eq false>
            <cffile action="delete" file="#ExpandPath('.')#\MultiFileUpload\uploadedfiles\#File.ServerFile#"/>
            <cfoutput>Uploaded file deleted -- unacceptable extension (#ucase(File.ServerFileExt)#)</cfoutput>.<br>
        </cfif>
Upload process done!
        <cfcatch type="any">
            There was an error!
            <cfdocument format="PDF" overwrite="yes" filename="errordebug.pdf">
                <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"/>
            </cfdocument>
        </cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cfelse>
<form method="post" action=<cfoutput>#cgi.script_name#</cfoutput>
        name="uploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <input name="filedata" type="file">
        <br>
        <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload File">
    </form>
</cfif>

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