Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER

Building applications visually

Last updated 3/28/2012

• Inspect the properties of functions that serve as web services.

To use Dreamweaver to inspect CFCs residing in the server root while also managing your site files in a different

website root, you can define two Dreamweaver sites. Set the first site to point to the server root and the second to point

to the website root. Use the site pop-up menu on the Files panel to switch quickly between the two sites.

To view CFCs in Dreamweaver, follow these steps:

1 Open any ColdFusion page in Dreamweaver.

2 In the Components panel (Window > Components), select CF Components from the pop-up menu.

3 Click the Refresh button in the panel to retrieve the components.

The components package is displayed on the server. A component package is a folder that contains CFC files.

If existing component packages do not appear, click the Refresh button in the panel toolbar.

4 To display only the CFCs located in your site folder, click the Show Only Current Site’s CFCs button in the

Components panel toolbar.

Note: This feature is available only if you’ve defined a computer running ColdFusion MX 6 or later as a testing server for

Dreamweaver.

Note: If the current site is listed in a virtual folder on the remote server, the filtering does not work.

5 Click the Plus (+) button beside the package name to view the components stored in the package.

• To list the functions of a component, click the Plus (+) button beside the component name.

• To see the arguments a function takes, as well as the arguments’ type and whether they are required or optional,

open the function’s branch in the tree view.

Functions that take no arguments have no Plus (+) button beside them.

• To quickly view the details of an argument, a function, a component, or a package, select the item in the tree view,

and click the Get Details button in the panel toolbar.

You can also right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the item and select Get Details from the pop-up menu.

Details about the item are displayed in a message box.