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CFEmail – Alternatives for the user
For those times when CFMail Just won’t cooperate, rather than throwing only an error message, give your user a chance to send the email from their own mail client on their PC/device. If CFMail fails the user is provided a … Continue reading
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Tagged CFCatch, cfMail, CFTry, Email
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Excel – Find widest value in range of cells
Here is an excel tip for finding the maximum width/length of values in a range of cells. It is useful when converting spreadsheets to databases where you need to define the data attributes. Type the following including braces into a … Continue reading
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Coldfusion bug – dialog box redirects on ok
I had an interesting problem to figure out today. On one of my forms I had a Help icon which the user could click and it would display a dialog box with help. Sometimes the box would just close, other … Continue reading
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CFLoop for Mass Email
We have a large corporate database with the email addresses of sales employees. My task this week was to create a Form which filters the massive list and send an email to the filtered results. I started by creating a … Continue reading
Zen Coding – OMG!
We developers are always looking for tools to improve our process or speed up common tasks. I often save bits of code I reuse in Dreamweaver’s snippets. Today I discovered a plugin/extension which allows even more flexibility and it even … Continue reading
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