A little known function available in VTML can greatly simplify generating Studio Tag Editor output in the user preferred case. Instead of managing this manually (using conditional processing and lists of strings), simply use the DefaultCase() function which will convert the string to upper or lower...
Writing your own Studio (or HomeSite) Tag Editors? Don't arbitrarily generate content in either upper or lower case - instead, check the Lowercase All Inserted Tags option and generate lowercase content if it is checked, or uppercase content if it not. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
Writing Tag Editors? Make sure to provide help files too (so as to display integrated help within the Tag Editors themselves). To do this you'll need to make sure that every user using your Tag Editor has a copy of the help file - or just put it on a shared drive and add that path to the Help Files...
Need to create (or update) a simple Tag Editor but don't want to tinker with VTML? Open the Tag Inspector pane in the Studio (or HomeSite) Resource Tab and click on the Edit Tag Definitions button (the one with the picture of the gear) to display the Tag Definitions Library dialog which can be used...
As most ColdFusion developers know, CFML comments are designated with three hyphens (as opposed to two hyphens in HTML comments). When creating Studio (or HomeSite) wizards both two hyphen and three hyphen comments will be generated along with any output code. To embed comments in the Wizard itself...
Controls used within Studio (and HomeSite) Wizard pages are populated dynamically at runtime, unless the page is of TYPE="dynamic". This page type cannot contain any dynamically populated controls. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
Within ColdFusion Studio (and HomeSite) Wizards and Tag Editors, variables (also known as parameters) are enclosed within curly braces and preceded by $$. So, variable "name" is referred to as $${name}. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
If you are planning on writing your own Studio (or HomeSite) wizards, you'll know that every Wizard must have a definition file (a .vtw file). The basic contents of this file are: tags enclose the entire file, tags define the variables the Wizard will be creating or manipulating, tags specify the...
Want to create wizards in Studio (or HomeSite)? You can. The trick is to learn two markup languages, VTML (the same VTML used to create Tag Editors) and WIZML. Creating a Wizard involves creating a wizard definition file (with a .vtw extension) and one or more wizard output templates (each saved...
Written a great VTOM script and want one-click access to it on demand? Studio lets you do this. Simply right click on any toolbar, select Customize, Add Custom Button, select Execute an ActiveScript file, and then specify your VTOM script. That script will now be executed whenever the button is...