MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7-MIGRATING APPLICATIONS TO COLDFUSION MX 7 Manual page 25

Forms and validation enhancements
If your application uses the
enhancement discussions in the Release Notes. In particular, rich forms (using Macromedia
Flash) and skinnable forms (using XML) provide major enhancements to form display and
processing.
Improvements to the cfchart tag
ColdFusion MX 7 includes the following enhancements to the
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An updated charting engine provides improved output.
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Use the new
title
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You can now use dates on the y-axis of a chart.
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The
cfchart
Query of Queries
Changes to the Query of Queries include the following:
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More lenient type comparisons. Query of queries now makes the best effort to compare
expressions of different types by doing implicit casts.
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Support for the CAST (expression AS casttype) function.
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Support for the varchar concatenation operator ||.
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Support for SQL and ODBC style dates inside a query of queries.
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Size is no longer a reserved word when you create a query of queries, so you can create a query
of queries using the
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Query metadata support. Lets you specify data type metadata for query columns that you
create using the
been added to these functions:
QueryAddColumn
QueryNew
Verity upgrade and enhancements
The ColdFusion MX Verity implementation has been completely rewritten to use Verity 5.5 and
its all-Java interface, which has many implications, including the following:
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Verity 5.5 uses a client-server paradigm. ColdFusion MX no longer manages collections
directly and all collections are managed by the Verity search server.
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There is no longer the concept of external and internal collections.
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Verity pages in the ColdFusion MX Administrator have changed.
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Because ColdFusion uses a pure Java interface to Verity, native libraries are no longer required.
tag or server validation, ensure that you review the
cfform
attribute in the
cfchart
tag lets you specify the style of the chart in either an XML file or string.
tag with a column named Size.
cfdirectory
and
QueryNew QueryAddColumn
parameter
datatype
parameter
columnTypeList
cfchart
tag to specify the title of the chart.
functions. The following parameters have
Other changes in ColdFusion MX 7
tag:
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