Hyperlink-trouble after upgrade to CF 7

Question

Hello
I am currently editing an old CF site where the host have
gone from CF 5 to CF 7 (without warning =). All hyperlinks with a
CF attribute have stopped working for some reason, let me clarify:
from an SQL like this: (code is rewritten )
<cfquery name="Course" datasource="CompanyDB">
SELECT CourseApp2.*, Course.*, CourseDate.*
FROM CourseApp2, Course, CourseDate
WHERE CourseApp2.CourseMember_ID = #CGI.QUERY_STRING#
AND CourseApp2.CourseDateID = CourseDate.CourseDateID
AND CourseDate.CourseID = Course.CourseID
ORDER BY CourseStart
</cfquery>
there is a CF out as follows:
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="Course">
<TR><TD><A
HREF="../Course/Course.cfm?CourseID=#CourseID#">#CourseName#,
#CourseCode##CourseDateCode#</A></TD>
The way the hyperlink is constructed doesnt work, and an
error stating that CourseID is undefined ( the ?CourseID=#CourseID#
part of the link)
It doesnt work where the link is made like this either:
<A
HREF="../Course/Course.cfm?CourseID=#Course.CourseID#">#CourseName#,
#CourseCode##CourseDateCode#</A>
that is, stating which CourseID you want to use, on those the
error: CourseID is undefined in Course is thrown.
It works however if you select CouseID from Course as an
Alias in the select statement and use the alias in the link.
This old site has been working fine with this sort of
notation, has something changed up to CF 7, that have made this
erroneous? Since i havent written the original code I am reluctant
to change it before I know whats wrong.
If you have any ideas or suggestions please reply
Regards
Torbjörn

Answer 1

I would rename your query, so that the cfoutput statement
will know what you are referring to, something like:
<cfquery name="getcourseinfo" datasource="CompanyDB">
SELECT CourseApp2.*, Course.*, CourseDate.*
FROM CourseApp2, Course, CourseDate
WHERE CourseApp2.CourseMember_ID = #CGI.QUERY_STRING#
AND CourseApp2.CourseDateID = CourseDate.CourseDateID
AND CourseDate.CourseID = Course.CourseID
ORDER BY CourseStart
</cfquery>
THEN:
<cfoutput query="getcourseinfo">
<A
HREF="../Course/Course.cfm?CourseID=#CourseID#">#CourseName#,
#CourseCode##CourseDateCode#</A><br>
</cfoutput>
Let me know if this works.