Question

I am trying to use mappings for the first time and I am having some issues. In my CFadmin I created a mapping which goes like this:

Logical Path:

/email_sender

Directory Path:

E:\sites\Example.Com\cf_modules\autoresponders\Emails\emailLists

I am trying to access the include file from a .cfc. Inside my cfc I have an include file which is in the same folder and it works just fine but that include file is tying to access another include file based on the information I am passing through.

The include file inside the component has this code in it.

<cfmail from="#emailData.sender#" to="#surveymain.email#" subject="#subject#"  type="HTML" >
    <cfinclude template="#emailData.includePath#" >
</cfmail>    

Just to be more clear this is my total filesystem:

access.cfm -> some.cfc -> include_1 (works) -> include_2 (issue with
the path)

I have a try/catch which emails me the errors and it is located inside the include_1.

How can I use the mapping that I created to finally be able to access my include file?

Please note that after emailLists I have dynamic folders which change depending on which client I am trying to send the email to. So the end result of the path would be:

E:\sites\Example.Com\cf_modules\autoresponders\Emails\emailLists\client_A\email_template.cfm

I tried using my mapping by doing this
<cfinclude template="/email_sender/#emailData.includePath#" >

which gave me this error:

The path to the CFC must be specified as a full path, or as a relative
path from the current template, without the use of mappings.

Also, I tried including a full path in the cfinclude whic also resulted in the following error:

Note: If you wish to use an absolute template path (for example, >template=”/mypath/index.cfm”) with CFINCLUDE, you must create a
mapping for the path using the ColdFusion Administrator. Or, you can
use per-application settings to specify mappings specific to this
application by specifying a mappings struct to THIS.mappings in
Application.cfc.
Using relative paths (for example,
template=”index.cfm” or template=”../index.cfm”) does not require the
creation of any special mappings. It is therefore recommended that you
use relative paths with CFINCLUDE whenever possible.

Any help/suggestion would be much appreciated

Edit:
After restarting the server the version that worked was this one:
<cfinclude template="/email_sender/#emailData.includePath#" >

Thanks to those who replied.

Answer 1

Some questions, rather than some answers.

1. Did you set the mapping in CFAdmin or in Application.cfc?

2. What do you get if you run the code below?

   #expandPath(“/email_sender”)#

3. What is the value of #emailData.includePath#?

4. What is the value of this: #expandPath("/email_sender#emailData.includePath#")#?
5. Can you provide us with the exact text of the error messages, rather than vaguely describing them.
6. What is the value of #fileExists(expandPath("/email_sender#emailData.includePath#"))#?

If you can update your question with that info, you’ll either spot where you’re going wrong, or we can help to work out what the story is