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Coldfusion 8 - chchart not working using Coldfusion.navigate

After upgrading to CF8 and changing from frames to cflayout I know cant use cfgraph. I've simplified the code to show what happens. First page (home.cfm) has cflayout areas and one of them has a link that navigates to chart.cfm targeting a specifif layout area. If I run chart.cfm by itself the chart shows up, but with the Coldfusion.navigate link, I get a generic error "Error processing javascript in markup". It seems cfchart doesnt work when linked to via Coldfusion.navigate.

Here's the code:

home.cfm:
<cflayout type="border" name="layoutborder">
	<cflayoutarea name="Center" position="center">
	<a href="#" onclick="ColdFusion.navigate('chart.cfm','Center')">chart</a>
	</cflayoutarea>
</cflayout>
 
chart.cfm:
<cfchart>
<cfchartseries type="line" serieslabel="2008">
	<cfchartdata item="January" value="100">		
</cfchartseries> 
</cfchart>

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Worked perfect, I would never have figured that out. How did you know to do that? Being that CF8 is sort of new, it's not as easy to find solutions for these new errors.

Scott Bennett

It is a common issue with these kinds of AJAX features, in certain browsers all the external javascript files need to be imported by the main page to work properly. This is why Adobe created the cfajaximport tag.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_a-b_2.html

However they didn't have the cfchart tag as one of the options for the" tags" attribute, so instead I browsed directly to the chart.cfm, viewed the source and found the script tag. Then I put that into the home.cfm and everything worked fine.