I was thinking about this some more and realized I forgot to mention that you don’t really need to use a web service if you don’t want to. You can actually specify a separate file for each input by using a different config on each. If you take a look at the script you’ll see how to do this but if you get stuck or need a sample let me know.

I prefer to consolidate everything in one place (aka one file) because it keeps it easier to manage… but that all depends on how your software is engineered.

Brian,

Don’t be scared off by the CFC. It is essentially the same thing as an object in any other language. In this particular case however it is a remote object, aka a Web Service. You can create your own Web Service in cf, php, .net, etc. That having been said you could also implement it without object remoting by doing an evaluate on the appropriate url parameters… the only requirement here is that the data is returned to gsuggest in the correct format.

Here is the code for the CFC:

http://www.micah-lacombe.com/utils/suggest_cfc_code.cfm

Notice the comment at the bottom:


<!---
var method = obj.form.name + '_' + obj.name;
var surl = $.gsuggest.config.url + "?method="+method+"&value="+objval+"&callback=?";
--->


This is where gsuggest sets up the url to use during the ajax call. As mentioned in the main article, [method] is the name of the method which gets executed, and [value] is the value currently in the text box. CF uses [method] as part of its remote call, however other languages may be different…. so you can update gsugggest.js to reflect whatever type of url you need and even add multiple language options by enhancing the configuration. Also, [callback] is something jquery uses (so that is also required).

The data you return needs to be formatted in JSON:


"#callback#(#serializejson(listtoarray(valuelist(qcustomers.contactname)))#)">


This is outputing the value of [callback] as a function, hence the parenthesis. And the parameter value of that function is simply a JSON Simple Array. For further CFML Details, hit up google or ask me.

Good luck and let me know how it goes!

Hi Yugi,

I am not entirely sure what you mean… in fact it requires the dataset to be in JSON already. Can you explain more about what you are looking to do?

Thanks for this work, it seems like it will be perfect for my application.

Can you write your gsuggest to support json format?

Thanks for bringing this to my attention… I had a catastrophic hard drive failure in December and some files were lost. I rebuilt the sample “SEE IT IN ACTION” page this morning so you can check it out. Let me know if you have any questions!

I would like to also add that if anyone has trouble getting the script to work, or understanding it, just make a comment here and I will follow up with specific details.

The methods above work, but boy or they ever inefficient. Avoid them if at all possible. Consider using things like DateDiff(), etc.

And Remember, when your writing high performance queries always study the execution plan and reduce bottlenecks!

“We set it by user in Active Directory Users and Computers. Go to the properties of the user, then click the Sessions tab and set the inactivity timeout to whatever you want.

You can also go to Start - Programs - Administrative Tools - Terminal Services Configuration. Right Click on the RDP Connection and go to the sessions tab. That will create server wide settings and you can choose to over ride individual user settings.” - kick back

Just to be more clear: you can either embed multiple queries inside a single file and use the method parameter to determine which needs to be executed (as I do), or you can specify a different config url for each input:text and have your ajax code in separate files… how you decide to use it is up to you.