While waiting for the File Explorer to be fixed in CFEclipse

Posted At : August 24, 2007 8:10 AM | Posted By : Trond Ulseth
Related Categories: ColdFusion, Eclipse
It's been a while since I made the transition to CFEclipse as my full-time CF coding tool.

However, even after Mark's heroic efforts after me bugging him the FTP functionality in the File Explorer left a little to be desired. This I could live with though. But now that the File Explorer itself has stopped working, so I can no longer open any local files that are not part of a project, that is worse. We have a "zillion" clients in work and to create a project to fix or update small things is not something I want to do.

But I came up with a temporary work-around:

Created a project called "temp" and pointet it to wherever. For each location on your computer or (as in my case) the local network, right click on the project and choose "New > Folder". Name the folder something like "Our smaller clients" or whatever suits the location you are interested in. Then click the "Advanced" button on the bottom and check the "Link to folder in the file system" check box, and browse to the directory you need.

This way you can still have access to all the local files you need without opening a new project each time.

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ps - you can keep an eye at the situation with the File Explorer at http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/ticket/332

pss - Mark you're still my hero, and well deserve the break you've taken of from CFEclipse. However, when you get back to it, and wonder where to start of, you know where my vote is ;)

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Neat solution - but it seems like that is almost the same amount of effort as just making a project within CFEclipse :)
# Posted By Jim Priest | 8/24/07 9:10 AM
Hi Jim,

Now I have a folder under the temp project linked to the inetpub folder on our local production server. So if I need to change something for one of the "zillion" clients we have there I can pull up the file from there, instead of creating project for that client.

I could of course made a project with inetpub as it's home directory - the result would pretty much have been the same. But there are some other locations we have files as well, so now all locations are gathered under the temp project. It's slightly cleaner that way I think.
# Posted By Trond Ulseth | 8/24/07 9:33 AM
I am so bummed with the crappy FTP support in cfeclipse which has been a glaring problem for literally years! Now this? Time for a moratorium on all cfeclipse features until the critical file explorer is completely rehashed... seriously... Mark, someone, please step up.

Am I the only one who does not do local CF development but dev via FTP?

-A future CFEclipse user waiting for 2 years now.
# Posted By Anthony | 8/24/07 2:27 PM
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