MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5 - INSTALING AND CONFIGURING SERVER Manual page 85

Client Variables
Note
If you use the registry to store client variables, ensure that enough memory is
allocated for it.
To enable client variable storage in the registry as the default:
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To enable client variable storage in cookies as the default:
In the Client Variables page, select Cookie. Click Submit Changes.
To enable client variable storage in a data source as the default:
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In the Client Variables page, select Registry. Click Apply.
To display a page in which to enable the automatic deletion of variables that have
not been used for a specified number of days, click Registry. Click Submit
Changes.
In the Client Variable page, select a data source in the drop-down list.
Click Add Client Variable Storage. The Add/Edit Client Store page for your data
source displays.
On the Add/Edit Client Store page, select options for the data source, as
described in the following table. If you do not want to make changes, return to
the Client Variables screen using one of the arrows on the page.
Option Description
Purge data for Enable this option to periodically purge client data that has not
clients that been accessed in a specified number of days, and enter a
remain number.
unvisited for
[n] days
Disable global Enable this option to prevent ColdFusion Server from updating
client variable client variables for every page request. When updates are
updates disabled, ColdFusion Server only updates global client variables
when they are created and when they are changed. Disabling
updates helps improve the performance of application pages.
Create Client Enable this option only when you configure a data source for
database client variable storage the first time. ColdFusion Server creates
tables the tables necessary for client variables. If the data source has
already been configured, disable this option. Otherwise,
ColdFusion Server generates an SQL error because it tries to
create tables that already exist.
Click Submit Changes.
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