Re: CF8 and cfchart problem

["BKBK" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[i]it seems to me that coldfusion 8 never displays flash charts when the name 
is specified[/i]

 Neither did Coldfusion MX7, perhaps not even earlier MX versions, either. It 
is so by design. Paraphrasing the 
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000226.htm, 

 [i]"[When you specify the name attribute, cfchart] generates the graph as 
binary data and assigns it to the specified variable. [Specifying a name] 
suppresses chart display. You can use the name value in the cffile tag to write 
the chart to a file."[/i]

 You could therefore simply extend your code, thus


 <cftry>
 <cfchart format="flash" show3d="yes" pieslicestyle="sliced" 
labelformat="currency" name="testChart" title="Summary of Revenue">
 <cfchartseries type="pie">
 <cfchartdata item="a" value="50">
 <cfchartdata item="b" value="100">
 <cfchartdata item="c" value="100">
 </cfchartseries>
 </cfchart>
 <!--- create directory if necessary --->
 <cfif NOT directoryExists("c:\temp\test\")>
 <cfdirectory action="CREATE" directory="c:\temp\test\">
 </cfif>
 <!--- write chart to file --->
 <cffile action = "write" file = "c:\temp\test\test_chart.swf" output = 
"#testChart#">
 Chart has been written to c:\temp\test\test_chart.swf
 <cfcatch type="Application">
 error occurred: <cfoutput>#cfcatch.message#</cfoutput>
 </cfcatch>
 </cftry>