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how do I pass a coldfusion variable to a cfselect bind attribute

I have a cfselect tag like the following:

<cfselect name="patientfind"
bind="cfc:subjects.subject_select({subject_name@keydown},39,1)"
      value="entityid"
display="fullname"
      size="5"
      width="200"      />

I need to be able to replace the two last arguments (the 39 and 1) with coldfusion variables defined in the template that houses the cfselect statement. I have tried several different methods, from string concatenation to using ## around the variables names like this:

bind="cfc:subjects.subject_select({subject_name@keydown},#project_id#,"user_id#1)"

But none of these work. They all cause different javascript errors.

I figure that I am just missing something simple.

Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Tom

<cfselect name="patientfind"
    bind="cfc:subjects.subject_select({subject_name@keydown},39,1)"
	value="entityid"
    display="fullname" 
	size="5"
	width="200"	/>
 
<cfselect name="patientfind"
    bind="cfc:subjects.subject_select({subject_name@keydown},#project_id#,#user_id#)"
	value="entityid"
    display="fullname" 
	size="5"
	width="200"	/>

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_agx_

You could always put the values in hidden fields,

<cfinput type="hidden" name="project_id" value="#project_id#">
<cfinput type="hidden" name="user_id" value="#user_id#">

... then use the the hidden fields as the last two values in the bind.

_agx_

... Though using variables works fine for me

<cfselect.. cfc:mycfc.mymethod(#project_id#,#user_id#)">

azadisaryev

yes, just passing cf vars works fine. what you need to check is if your cfc function accepts them - does it have <cfargument> defined for each? are they required or not? are you passing them to the function in correct order?

also keep in mind that you can't pass a comma-delimited list as cf variable to your function via binding. you need to change list delimiters to something other than a comma.

Azadi

hoetom

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Thank you all for your advice.

I had tried wrapping the variable names in #, but it hadn't worked. I was getting by Firebug that I had an undefined variable. I played around with what I was passing and determined that I only got that error if the value of the variable that I was passing was a string.

In this case, I had to wrap the variable in a pair of single quotes, along with the #, or like this:

bind="cfc:subjects.subject_select({subject_name@keydown},#project_id#,'#user_id#')"

It is a long story on why my user_id is a string...

Thanks for your help.
Tom

_agx_

> I had to wrap the variable in a pair of single quotes

Well, if it is either a string value or type, then yes. Strings pretty much always need to be quoted ;-)