to cfloop or not to cfloop?

[chriskeeler2]

:confused;
I have a list of checkboxes from a form, and a submit button for "Batch Print"
The var is "SelectList" and comes out as comma dilimited. I need to loop over
each value, and insert it as another "page" in my CFX_PDF tag.

What I am trying to do: I have a list of PDF files and would like a batch
print functions. Checkbox for each PDF and a Batch Print submit bitton. CF
takes these record ID's of the PDFs and loops over them. Creating a new PDF
with each page being one of the selected PDFs. Basicall transforming all the
selected PDF's into one big PDF with multiple pages. I am able to read
existing PDF's and create pages using CFX_PDF, but not sure how to get the code
to loop over the selected values, read the filenames (DB column) for these ID's
and insert the filenames into the new PDF. I have an example of how to read a
PDF and count the number of pages in it, so I just need to modify it to read
separate one page pdf and insert them into the new one.

See code. Thanks for your help.



<cfcase value="batch">
<cfset SelectList = form.selectlist>
<!---Select list is something like: 17,21,34--->
<cfquery datasource="prereg">
UPDATE pdf_status
SET print_flag = 'Yes'
WHERE ID IN (0#SelectList#)
</cfquery>
<cfset status = "Printed">
<!---Need to count how many total are in SelectList--->
<cfset index=#SelectList#>
<cfloop query="request.PDFInfo">
<!---loop over SelectList values-->
<cf_pdf_page width="#width#" height="#height#">
<cf_pdf_read file="#pdf_filename#" page="#index#" />
<!---Read each value and insert as a new page--->
</cf_pdf_page>
<cfset index = index + 1>
</cfloop>

[GeorgeWS]

Are you using CF7? If so you could use the cfdocument tag to output to PDF. you
could have all of the pdfs on a page, each wrapped in a isDefined() or cfif
statment. and use the pagebreak in between each PDF link. then. when some radio
buttons are submitted it would print all of the selected pdfs. Sort of chaining
(batching) them together breaking after each document. Hope this helps.

[chriskeeler2]

No. CFMX 6.1 with the CFX tag called CFX_PDF

[chriskeeler2]

See next post...the saga continues