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ColdFusion Builder 2 and adding your own tasks to the ToDo list

Tags: ColdFusion Builder

One of the new features to ColdFusion Builder 2 is the Task Tags or what most of us know as a Todo list, but there is a little more to it than meets the eye.

Let me first put yourself into a scenario, that I know everyone can relate with. You are maintaining an application only to find that a developer has commented out the debug code, and then forgotten to remove it from the code before putting it into a source repository.

How would you like to be able to see these at a quick glance?

As with the Todo list, you can also add your own for reference as well. So lets open up the preferences from the window menu of the IDE and select the Task Tags preferences, and add cfdump to the list, as shown in the image to the right. By selecting new and entering your criteria, will then be able to see this in the Tasks View. Now don't get this confused with the Mylyn tasks view as they are two different things.

You will also notice that I had to put the less than sign as part of the string, I have raised this as a bug to ColdFusion Builder as I believe this should not be needed.

Anyway that is pretty much it.

All you need to do now is to place a cfdump into a comment, and watch it pop in the view, as shown in the image to the right.

The only catch so far is that the file will need to be opened for it to be shown up in this list, I had also asked for a new feature or request to be able to select to scan a selected resource or project to update this with ease.

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