Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 1341

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Using External Resources
2 Select RDS.
To access the file system on the RDS server, select RDS Fileview.
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To access data sources on the RDS server, select RDS Dataview.
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Using the RDS Fileview
The RDS Fileview lists all the folders and files on the RDS server. You use the navigation buttons as indicated in the
following table:
Button Action
Refresh the active RDS server.
Create a file in the currently selected folder.
Delete the currently selected file.
Create a folder in the currently selected folder.
Delete the currently selected folder.
Note: RDS Eclipse Support does not support file operations such as copy and paste, drag and drop, and changing file
attributes. However, delete, save, save as, and rename are supported. Also, on ColdFusion servers after ColdFusion 5, the
date last modified field does not appear.
To rename a folder or file, right-click the folder or filename.
Using the RDS Dataview
The RDS Dataview lists all the data sources on the RDS server. You use the buttons as indicated in the following table:
Button Name
Refresh
Query Viewer
You can build queries using either the RDS Query Viewer or the Visual Query Builder. The RDS Visual Query Builder
is like the ColdFusion Report Builder Query Builder and the HomeSite Query Builder.
Build and execute a query using the RDS Query Viewer
Click the RDS Query Viewer icon on the RDS Dataview tab.
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The RDS Query Viewer opens in its own tab, which means that if you have other documents open, the RDS Query
Viewer has focus.
Do one of the following:
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• Enter the SQL, and double-click the field names and table names as appropriate.
• Click the Visual Query Builder button.
Description
Refresh the currently selected item.
Opens the RDS Query Viewer.
Last updated 1/20/2012
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