Flex 3 missing Coldfusion CRUD

I just installed Flex 3, and I get RDS working fine. I was
going to quickly build an app to test using the Coldfusion CRUD
Wizard, but it appears to be non-existent in Flex 3?
Help! Where did it go? Am I missing something? The only thing
I found was a CFC wizard on the the RDS Dataview tab, but I need
the entire CRUD application wizard, not just a few CFCs.
Thanks!

This appears to be a bug in the Windows Vista x64
functionality with Flex 3 (even when the program is run as
Administrator). I have posted a bug report and the work-around I
discovered here at Adobe's Flex Bug and Issue Management System:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-12276
In case the link above becomes invalid, the problem is that
NONE of the Wizard Folder expand to show and of the wizards
available in the Wizard Selection window when you click to expand
any folder and show its contents. The work-around is to type part
of the name of the particular wizard you want to run in the search
field above the wizard folder listings. This will cause the folder
to expand and reveal the wizards matching what the user has typed.
In my case I had to install Flex 3 on my Windows XP system to know
the names of what I was searching for, and typing "cold" brought up
the ColdFusion CRUD wizard below the folder.

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6) Can I simply PAY someone at Adobe for one-on-one help here? Do they have experts that you can "buy" for a few hours? What's the charge for that, if such a thing is available? Or, is this problem well-explained somewhere on the Web, and I just haven't found it yet?
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Mableton, Georgia, USA

This blog post is pretty close to what I want:
http://justinjmoses.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/flex-dynamic-bindable-value-objects/
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L.

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session facade? How do I best encapsulate session variables from
the root Application.cfc within my new flex application? Basically
I will need to follow the same authentication and cfset session
guidelines that all of my other CF applications use, and my flex
app needs to have theses session variables available to it, but I
am not sure the best approach. Any insight is welcome.

Did you enable session management in the Application.cfc or
Application.cfm?

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has a query. I want to be able to use the web service in my Flex
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stories">
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required="yes">
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SELECT linktext, story, photo
FROM pressreleases
WHERE rss_feed = <cfqueryparam
value="#arguments.subject#" />
OR rss_feed2 = <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.subject#"
/>
ORDER BY releaseDate DESC
</cfquery>
<cfreturn list>
</cffunction>
How can I modify that to use in a Flex app's
<mx:WebService>? Do I have to use cfsavecontent and return
XML or can I keep it a query and use it with an ArrayCollection?
Something like:
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returntype="xml" output="false" hint="I grab the newest
stories">
<cfargument name="subject" type="string"
required="yes">
<cfquery name="list" datasource="prmc-media">
SELECT linktext, story, photo
FROM pressreleases
WHERE rss_feed = <cfqueryparam
value="#arguments.subject#" />
OR rss_feed2 = <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.subject#"
/>
ORDER BY releaseDate DESC
</cfquery>
<cfsavecontent variable="storyList">
<magStories>
<cfoutput query="list">
<magStory id="#ISBN#">
<linkURL>#XMLFormat(linkURL)#</booktitle>
<story>#XMLFormat(story)#</teaser>
<photo>#XMLFormat(photo)#</price>
</magStory>
</cfoutput>
</magStories>
</cfsavecontent>
<cfreturn storyList>
</cffunction>
Locally I can use RemoteObject all day with the way it is
normally, but since UofMichigan has BlueDragon, I am forced to
convert my apps to WebServices.

Hi,
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http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/tutorial/coldfusion_web_services.cfm
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wsdl="
http://www.flash-mx.com/ws/months.cfc?wsdl">
<mx:operation name="getMonths"
resultFormat="object"
result="getMonths_result(event);"
fault="getMonths_fault(event);" />
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http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/14/calling-a-simple-web-service-from-flex-using-the-w ebservice-class/
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Ok, I'm relatively new to this whole Flex thing -- I've been
through a few tutorials, written a few apps, but I'm still unclear
on a few things.
I just want to write an app that reads record(s) from an SQL
database, and allows the user to modify and update those record(s).
Should be extremely simple, and yet somehow it's been overly
complicated by a dozen layers of (seemingly unnecessary) software.
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#1) Why can't Flex talk to an SQL database directly? Why do I
need ColdFusion for this?
#2) What the heck is BlazeDS? (Yes, I've read the FAQ and I
still don't understand why I need it.) If I'm running BlazeDS, do I
really need ColdFusion? If so, why?
#3) In the BlazeDS FAQ, it mentions something about accessing
server-side Java objects -- so do I need to install JavaEE on top
of CF and the SQL database now, too?
It just seems so overly complicated for such a simple task.
If someone could explain all this to me, I would greatly
appreciate it.

"Laurence MacNeill" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
riesvantwisk
>
> 1) Flex (AIR) can talk to SQLite directly and I believe
there is a MySQL
> driver (Also air??) that can talk to MySQL directly.
Other databases are
> not
> supported.
> The main reason for this is that flex (browser) needs a
client/server
> architecture. It more or less is the same reason that
javascript doesn't
> talk
> to any DB directly. And the reason is that http protocol
is the 'standard'
> to
> communicate between a web-browser and a remote server,
works across
> firewalls
> etc... For AIR there are simple no drivers yet, but I
believe some are
> currently in development.
> Ok, so basically if I want web functionality in my Flex
app, I have to use
> CF
> because HTTP breaks the direct connection between the
Flex app and the SQL
> database. Fine...
>
>
>
>
quote:
2) If you want to use Blaze-DS then you need java on the
server.
> Blaze-DS
> is your middle layer that accepts a AMF request and
passes the request to
> a
> pojo. Blaze-DS makes it simple to make that middle layer
you hate so much.
> It
> can do more, like sending messages to attached clients
from the
> server.
> Got no idea what a 'pojo' is. Or really what an AMF
request is. I know
> AMF
> has something to do with remote-control of clients, or
something like
> that?
>
>
>
>
quote:
3) TO use Blaze-DS you can use a simple tomcat server if you
want to,
> and I
> believe on the of the Blaze-DS samples even comes with
tomcat.
> Got no idea what a 'Tomcat server' is either. Never even
heard of it.
>
>
>
>
quote:
The whole system is not really over-complex ... <SNIP>
... May be you
> can
> explain what environment you are running?
> Yeah, I'll need my app to run in both a web-browser and
on a desktop.
> It's
> the main reason I chose Flex, since it's just a simple
re-compile to go
> from
> web to desktop (as long as I'm not interested in
Air-specific
> local-filesystem
> calls, which I'm not because all our data is going to be
stored on the web
> server.) Technically I could run everything through a
Flash-equipped
> web-browser -- but why bother with using a web-browser
on local intranet
> machines? Just takes up extra bandwidth on the local
network. So we'll
> run
> the app in Air on local machines, and customers will run
it through their
> Flash-equipped web-browsers on their home machines.
>
> But I still don't get why BlazeDS is needed. What does
it do, exactly?
> And
> how hard is it to set up all the J2EE and Tomcat stuff
(whatever the heck
> Tomcat is) before you're able to run BlazeDS? It just
seems like such a
> hassle. (Heck, CF is enough of a hassle -- I can't even
get that to
> install
> without killing IIS...)
BlazeDS handles all the messaging for you. If you don't need
your apps to
be informed of stuff without making server request, you can
use literally
any back end under the sun, ASP, PHP, even good ole CGI.

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Hi everyone,
Can someone tell me how I can enable and disable a button on
my flex application based on access level using coldfusion mx 7.
Please help me, thanks
Cliffy

just add a field in your db for the "access level" like
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We have a Flex application hitting ColdFusion web service and
it works great.
Now we need to employ security concerns before putting it in
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service. Do we have to pass credentials every time? Maybe this is
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This is what i have
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I can't say it enough and will continue to post until someone at Adobe listens.
What Adobe has done is blindly pull the rug right out from under our feet by deprecating support for ColdFusion in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver has been the one and only application I and thousands of others have used to code, design and FTP websites for years. Some of us have been using Dreamweaver as far back as when Allaire built it specifically to help ColdFusion developers. Dreamweaver offered ColdFusion tag support, a design view when needed, and an efficient way to FTP files.
It seems what Adobe is telling us now is that Dreamweaver is somehow not the right application for developing ColdFusion websites, but oddly enough the correct one for PHP developers. The only reason I can see that Adobe stripped the support for ColdFusion within Dreamweaver is to sell us CF Builder... which is suspiciously missing from any Creative Cloud subscription. Otherwise there was no real reason to pull support from ColdFusion within Dreamweaver.
What's more, it is going to take me and others weeks to learn a new program and that's time most of us don't have to spare. It's enough to keep up with the browser changes. I am a one man shop, as are many who used Dreamweaver, and every minute we use learning a new program instead of building websites is money lost. So Adobe is costing us money.
The reality for a lot of developers is that we can barely pay the Creative Cloud subscription fees every month, much less purchase a whole new program just because Adobe has forced our hand. I just don't understand why Adobe would drop support for ColdFusion within Dreamweaver when the program was working. It wasn't like the program was broken and the ColdFusion tag support was causing a problem with the program.
All Adobe has done is caused ill will towards their company and probably many developers to go out of business, at the least lose money when the economy is so tight. Thanks Adobe, for nothing.

You can, relatively easily, put the rug back in place. Since you're a CC Subscriber, you can move back to a previous version of DW through the Creative Cloud Desktop App...
Open the CC Desktop App
Click Apps tab
Scroll down to filters and versions
Click previous versions
Download and install an older version of DW
From there, use the older DWCS6 until you have the time and inclination to learn CF Builder or move to another non-Adobe application. There's no reason to sit and struggle with the new non-CF version of DW CC, blow billable hours and miss deadlines due to training.
As far as I've seen, there is no plan to bring any CF support back into DW. Adobe's plan is to move people to the perpetual license CF Builder instead.

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Just starting this ride ...
<cfstoredproc procedure="gmac.sel_smmry_by_mnth(
3,'2001')" datasource="orcl"> called the Oracle proc correctly
with the parms. I then attempted
<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="getMasterQuery"
output="false"
access="remote">
<cfargument name="rptNum" required="true"
type="Integer">
<cfargument name="yrInput" required="true"
type="String">
returntype="query">
<cfstoredproc procedure="gmac.sel_smmry_by_mnth"
datasource="orcl">
<cfprocresult
name="qSummary">
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cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER"
value = rptNum>
<cfprocparam type="in"
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR"
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</cfstoredproc>
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</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
with the Flex call
this.dataManager.getMasterQuery(3,"2001"); I get a CFC error
saying
The RPTNUM argument passed to the getMasterQuery function is
not of type Integer. Not sure why I am getting this error - any
help much appreciated,
Mic

Hi,
Try changing your "rptNum" argument declaration's 'type'
attribute as,
<cfargument name="rptNum" required="true"
type="numeric">
and also all your 'cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER" ' occurences to
"cf_sql_numeric"..
HTH

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