Feedback: Exporting data to Word with Cold Fusion

Feedback on: Exporting data to Word with Cold Fusion

Sent by Michael B on March 05, 1999 at 11:21:30: - feedback #101

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Well, that's a weird little article. The title could be a bit better - it makes the article seem to belong more in an Office tutorial perhaps. "Connecting Cold Fusion to Word", or "Exporting data to Word with Cold Fusion" maybe?

Oh, and how come the beta articles suddenly have IE4 transitions?

Sent by Michael B on March 05, 1999 at 11:21:56: - feedback #102

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Oh, and how come the beta articles suddenly have IE4 transitions?

Sent by Christian Labrecque on March 29, 1999 at 12:26:46: - feedback #132

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It doesn't seem to work properly.
Can someone help me with that.

Thanks

Christian

Sent by BONNETO on June 08, 1999 at 08:49:00: - feedback #227

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How to do if you want to return more than one record?
Where must I write the CFLOOP tag in the RTF file because I don't know anything about RTF syntax?

Sent by Jim Holbrook on April 06, 2000 at 07:32:25: - feedback #1047

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We have been doing rtf documents just like your article describes. But when we upgraded to 4.5 and then to 4.5.1 the cold fusion pages that created rft doucments starting taking from 30 to 45 MINUTES to run. All the time was in CF putting the page together.

Have you guys seen this?

Thanks,
Jim Holbrook

Sent by Mike on April 12, 2000 at 09:43:29: - feedback #1076

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Worked very well, but I have a question. I ran this, but it only will bring in the first record in a table, not all the records. What do I need to do?

Sent by Kevin Ulmer on June 19, 2000 at 13:20:11: - feedback #1397

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is there a way to open word and input variables into a label format...

Sent by paul celmer on September 07, 2000 at 17:31:21: - feedback #1726

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Could this same approach be used with Framemaker documents?

Sent by Neil Poole on November 21, 2000 at 16:41:42: - feedback #2046

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This only seems to work with saving the file as a .doc and then opening it. It doesn't open as a word document in the browser.

Would be nice to know if there is a way to open this doument in the browser(IE) as a word document.

Sent by Patrick Kane on January 05, 2001 at 06:38:31: - feedback #2210

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I seem to be missing a step. I successfully create the file, but the RTF code are visible in it. I even tried to save as DOC inside Word, but RTF codes remain.

With the codes in the document... IT IS WORTHLESS!!!

A little help please.

Sent by michael toepfer on March 09, 2001 at 14:17:09: - feedback #2473

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I use this method all the time and it works great. The key is to have as clean a word file as possible. However, I have only been able to get one record at a time also. It is fine for just pulling up one but I can't get more than one even using a cfloop. I also am looking for help on this one.

Sent by Enrique Molina on July 17, 2001 at 16:43:58: - feedback #2976

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My problem is i work with php4 and Postgres. The demo web works fine, but, in my server (apache, php, postgres) didn't work, displaying the next error:
" The method post is not allowed for rtf.rtf form "

May anybody help me?

I apologize for my poor english

Sent by Wes on October 19, 2001 at 13:03:21: - feedback #3257

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This article explains a very useful algorithm in an easy to understand manner.
It provided me with an idea to solve my problem, and the istruction to implement it.

Thanks,

Wes

Sent by Andy Mcshane on February 11, 2002 at 11:35:21: - feedback #3583

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This appeared to be the answer to my problems, however it works great for 1 record. I am looping through a number of records and need to produce 1 document for each record but I only get a document produced for the last record. Can anyone help? Is it possible using this method to process multiple documents?

Sent by Alex on April 10, 2002 at 14:57:00: - feedback #3771

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I have tried your code and it looks good except if I have a Binary Field (such as .Gif or .jpeg)in the database (such as Oracle) table, and want to export the data (images or diagrams) of that field to a word document Template File. Is there any solutions for that? and how about uploading the data from the same file into the database?

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Alex

Sent by Jay on April 22, 2002 at 14:35:36: - feedback #3801

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Please help explain to a newbie how you get to review the results after conversion using the above mentioned script?

I have got it to run the script and create another .cfm with RTF code in it but how do you create the new RTf doc and view it.

Please Help

Sent by TlalocW on Monday February 18, 2008 at 12:14:07 - feedback #5212

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Is there a way to make this repeat with a loop? What my situation is - I have a client with a packing slip template whose fields I fill in via Coldfusion, however, I can only fill in one at a time. it would be nice if I could allow the client to pick several people from her mailing list and create one document with everyone's packing slip in it.