Adobe is conducting a brief survey to learn more about how customers get information about using Flex. If you are a ColdFusion developer who uses Flex, we’d be particularly interested in your feedback.
Please click the link below to take a brief survey on the following topic. If you took this survey in November, you are welcome to take it again!
Creating data-driven applications in Flash Builder 4
Thanks, in advance. And, as always, we appreciate and value your feedback!
I’ve been doing a series of blog posts on the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) since it’s been really one of the highlights of the ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 release.
In this post, I’ll focus on the Community Help Client preferences – something that I’ve figured that many people have not yet explored. The CHC provides you with many preferences to control how the Help content is displayed.
Within the CHC, select Edit > Preferences, and you can set the following preferences, as required.
For more information on using the CHC configured with ColdFusion Builder, see ColdFusion Builder Help System in the ColdFusion Builder User Guide.
Search is key to the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC). You can specify various search and filter options in the CHC and search across different Help packages and search locations.
Select Help > ColdFusion Builder Help to launch the Adobe Community Help Client. In the CHC, click Search Options to display the following Search locations:
Local Help – Use this option to search the Help packages downloaded to your desktop. Click Filter Results to narrow down your search results to a specific book in the Help package.
Note that you can search Local Help only if the downloaded Help packages are fully downloaded. A good way to check if the Help packages are downloaded is by going to Edit > Preferences > Local Content. The status for the ColdFusion Builder and ColdFusion docs should read as “Current”.
Adobe.com – Use this option to search for reference content across all online resources available on adobe.com, including Developer Center articles, tutorials, and knowledgebase articles.
Community Help – This search is cumulative of all the resources available on adobe.com as well as the most relevant content contributed by experts from the Adobe community.
Happy searching!
A new Help system – Adobe Community Help Client - has been introduced in the ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 release.
Community Help Client (CHC) is an AIR application that is configured with ColdFusion Builder to provide ColdFusion Builder and ColdFusion 9 Help content. The Help content is served directly from the web. So, when you open the CHC for the first time, an Internet connection is needed. You can then download the Help content to your desktop to use and search offline.
To launch the Adobe Community Help Client, within ColdFusion Builder, select Help > ColdFusion Builder Help.
Some of the key features of the Community Help Client are:
To learn more about the Community Help Client, see http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/communityhelp/.
One of the nice new features of ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 is the support for AIR application development.
To get started with creating an AIR project, do the following:
You can then run or debug, package, and sign the AIR application.
Read Developing AIR applications in the ColdFusion Builder User Guide for detailed information.
It’s been just a few minutes since the ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 release has been made available on Adobe Labs.
Read through the What’s New section of the Release Notes for a quick glimpse of what we have to offer in this release.
Updated Beta documentation is available online:
Some delectable news for all ColdFusion fans – especially, if you haven’t visited the Adobe Cookbooks page lately.
The Adobe Cookbooks application now has a dedicated ColdFusion Cookbook serving ColdFusion code recipes. And in less than two months, we’ve already crossed over a hundred recipes.
The ColdFusion Cookbook now makes it simple as ever to browse, view, and search for ColdFusion code recipes. If you don’t find a code recipe that you’re looking for, you can just request for that recipe. With the combined knowledge of the ColdFusion community and experts, it shouldn’t be long before the recipe you requested for is dished up.
To create or request a recipe, all you need is a valid Adobe ID. If you don’t have one, please take a few moments to register. To know additional details about the new Adobe Cookbooks application, read through this post in The ADC Blog.
So, here’s urging every ColdFusion developer out there to participate in this community application – be it by contributing, requesting, commenting, or rating the code recipes. As always, we greatly appreciate each and everyone’s participation!
Akbarsait pointed out that there’s another contest running to encourage cookbook contributions – and once a target of 200 contributions is reached, there’s going to be another drawing, with yet another chance to win more prizes! Details of the contest at Akbarsait’s blog: http://bit.ly/CFCBContest
So, what are you’ll waiting for?
Well, if you are, this post is just for you.
The Learning Resources group at Adobe is conducting a brief survey to learn more about how customers get information about using Flex. The many ColdFusion developers out there who use Flex, we’d be particularly interested in getting your feedback.
Click the link below to take a quick survey on the following topic:
Creating data-driven applications in Flash Builder 4
Thanks, in advance. We really appreciate your participation in this survey!
This post is prompted by a user comment in the Adobe ColdFusion 9 CFML Reference asking for a single page listing all the ColdFusion functions.
Here’s a link to an HTML page that contains all the ColdFusion functions listed alphabetically:
ColdFusionFunctions.htm
A quick Ctrl+F on the page can help you search for a particular function. The ColdFusion functions are linked to the relevant Help pages in the CFML Ref.
If you’ve been visiting the ColdFusion Help pages lately, the version pods should have caught your eye. To begin with, let me explain what a version pod is – a version pod looks like a sticky note and contains links to other versions of the documentation.
A version pod lets you quickly navigate between different versions of the documentation – all from within the Help system. For example, if you’re in the ColdFusion 8 Help system, the version pod will offer you links to ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 7 documentation.
If you find the pod distracting, you can simply hide the pod – by clicking the little triangle highlighted below, and, presto, the pod’s hidden! Clicking the triangle again, unhides the pod.
