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Recent Blog Comments By Cliff Pearson

• POIUtility.cfc Examples For Reading And Writing Excel Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM

  @Purnima, Try removing the whitespace, so your code looks like: <cfif download neq ""><cfcontent type="application/msword" /><cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="Attachment; filename=ccbagenda.doc"></cfif> an... read more »

• POIUtility - Object Instantiation Exception

  Posted on Aug 18, 2009 at 12:46 PM

  Make sure the xls file doesn't have it's autofiter enabled - this might trip up the POIUtility. </cliff>... read more »

• Populating An Existing, Formatted Excel Document Using ColdFusion And POI

  Posted on Aug 4, 2009 at 6:08 AM

  @Eileen, Hi Eileen - did you ever resolve this issue, as I'm getting the same results at the moment? The rest of my POI code is working fine and if I use the branded template that Ben supplied, I see my content below his logo, but with the same code and a fresh file with just my comp... read more »

• Adding Basic CSS Support To My POI Utility ColdFusion Component For Excel Creation

  Posted on Aug 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM

  @Ben, I'm having the same issue as tsurahman above - adding a border to a cell with a colspan only applies the border to the first cell. Do you have a clue for me, please? B-> Kind regards </cliff>... read more »

• POI Utility Now Supports Formulas And Cell Aliasing In Custom Tags

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 8:44 AM

  Ben - Any update on Eugene's image question? It would be reeeeeeally useful? B-> All the best </cliff>... read more »

• POIUtility.cfc Examples For Reading And Writing Excel Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 4:50 AM

  Wouldn't you know it! As soon as I post that, I notice that the sheet has an autofilter - I removed that and it worked fine. I then tried again with the full worksheet, with all it's tabs and data and after removing the autofilter from each tab, it was read in with no problems - the resulting d... read more »

• POIUtility.cfc Examples For Reading And Writing Excel Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 4:46 AM

  Hi Ben - I appear to be having a similar problem (I presume), but it's falling at the next line. I'm getting: Object Instantiation Exception. An exception occurred when instantiating a java object. The cause of this exception was that: . The error occurred in /home/we... read more »

• POIUtility - Object Instantiation Exception

  Posted on Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM

  Just a quick tip to anyone researching the 'Object Instantiation Exception' message (like I was a few minutes ago!) - Don't forget to check file permissions, especially on a *nix server - that was the root of my problem. We now return you to your regular program! B-> All the best<... read more »

• An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)

  Posted on Feb 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM

  <goes scurrying to look in his cache... B->>... read more »

• An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)

  Posted on Feb 18, 2009 at 9:26 AM

  Ben - I'll second the request for an 'offline' copy of this. All the best </cliff>... read more »

• An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)

  Posted on Feb 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM

  Yay! wOOt! </cliff>... read more »

• Creating Excel Files With ColdFusion, XML, And POI

  Posted on Sep 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM

  Just a quick note to let you know that I added a link to your component to the wikipedia page on POI, under the 'Architecture' section. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_POI #Architecture for more info. Peaceread more »

• Downloading PDFs Of The ColdFusion Developer's Journal

  Posted on Jun 23, 2007 at 11:16 PM

  Hmm - as an ex-subscriber, I keep getting emails from Sys-con prompting me to download the PDFs, but I seem to have to register each month. </cliff>... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 Coming Soon??? (Saucy)

  Posted on May 29, 2007 at 8:43 PM

  I can't help but wonder what the other girl is thinking about! B-> </cliff>... read more »