Introduction

Basic usage of the code generator.

Details

When the generator initially loads it it will request your ColdFusion Administrator password, after which it should automatically populate several select boxes. The first is available DSNs (for supported dbms see above). Once the DSN loads, the tables select should populate with a list of tables within that DSN. Lastly, the templates select should populate with all available xsl template options (learn more about customizing templates and about the included Templates).

To generate templates:

1. Select the DSN that contains the table you would like to generate against. (required)
2. Select the table from the list of tables. (required)
3. Choose a different template to generate against (optional)
4. Specify the default dot notation cfc path (i.e. com.user.user for /com/user/user.cfc) (required)
5. Specify a relative site root system path (this is required to activate the save file capability) (optional)
6. Check "Strip extra line breaks" if the generated code displays with extra line breaks (optional)
7. Click Generate

Once the code generates, you will receive a set of tabs relating to each item you generated with a text area containing the generated code. You can choose to simply copy/paste each item by clicking the "Select All" button or you can save the file to a specified path by clicking the save file button - a default path and file name is specified for you, however you can change this before saving (Note: if the path doesn't exist it will be created for you).