Output to WORD

[NickyJay]

Hi All,

im hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, i have followed the example of outputing to a word template from the web application kit (MX7 ver), and have managed to output to a .rtf file.

However, i wanted to be able to output to a .doc file as my text has fomatting and doesn't disply right in the .rtf - instead of showing bold text i get the <b></b> tags around the text! When i try to get it to output to a .doc file i get an error saying WORD cannot open the file, check permmissions of the file/check if enough disk space - both are ok!

Should i be trying to output to a .doc or trying something else to show the formatting of my intended document?

Thanks!

 

[FALCONSEYE]

something like ...


<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes" showdebugoutput="no">
<cfset tab=chr(9)>
<cfset carriage=chr(13)&chr(10)>

<cfcontent type="application/msword">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="filename=myFile.doc">
<cfoutput>
hi
this is my word document
created on #Now()#
</cfoutput>


hope it helps

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[jstreich]

Falconeeye is right, but I'd like to suggest changing:

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="filename=myFile.doc">

to:

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=myFile.doc">

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[LyndonOHRC]

I hope no one minds if I expand this thread some...

What are the advantages of the <cfheader> method? I use MS Word output in many places on my intranet application.

I use the following method for no other reason than it was the first example I ran across when the development task was at hand.

<cffile contentType='application/msword' 
 action='write' 
 file='#mFileName#'
 output = '#PrintData#'>

Any discussion appreciated.


Lyndon

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[FALCONSEYE]

cfheader tag generates custom http response headers. for example, you can use

<cfheader name="expires" value="#now()#">

so, i guess it depents on what you are trying to accomplish. you can read some more about cfheader here :

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusio...xt=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000270.htm

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