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Using both AttributeCollection and other Attributes with ColdFusion tags in CF 8.0.1

Jul 18, 2008 7402 Views ColdFusion Comments (1)

The ColdFusion 8 AttributeCollection is one of the coolest features with ColdFusion 8 Release. The ColdFusion 8.0.1 release gave some enhancements to AttributeCollection which is nothing but combining both attributes and attributecollection with a ColdFusion tag. We can use attributecollection like this



<cfset objMailAttributes = {
Server = "mail.mycompany.com",
Username = "companyxyz",
Password = "zyxcompany",
To = "tomail@mycompany.com",
From = "frommail@mycompany.com",
Subject = "Using AttributeCollection and Attributes in CF8",
Type = "plain"

} />



<cfmail attributecollection = "#objMailAttributes#" type="html">
<p>
Now we can use both AttributeCollection and Attributes with ColdFusion tags in CF 8.0.1
</p>
</cfmail>

In the above code I have added an attribute type with value "html". So if an individual attribute is already defined in the attributecollection then ColdFusion will only use the individual attribute value. Executing the above code with CF 8.0.0 will throw you an error like below.

The attributeCollection attribute cannot be used in
combination with other attributes in the cfmail tag.

Related Information:

ColdFusion 8 Update 1 Download Link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html#cf8

ColdFusion 8 Livedocs about AttributeCollection:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Elements_04.html

Ben Nadel Blog Entry About AttributeCollection in CF8:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/755-Learning-ColdFusion-8-Defining-Tags-With-AttributeCollection.htm