Using ColdFusion Studio
Setting Up the Product

Completing Setup

This section explains how to initially set up ColdFusion Studio if you have installed it for the first time, and how to set up ColdFusion Studio based on the options that were set in a previous version. The Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW) guides you through both of these processes.

The English language  version of ColdFusion Studio is installed with support for Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean, and Japanese characters sets on localized Windows systems. To enter characters from these sets, use the Microsoft input method. This support depends on your system language, and does not work if the Western language option is set. In Windows, you can reset your system language from the Control Panel, in Regional Settings or Regional Options.

About the Initial Configuration Wizard

The Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW) lets you carry over options from a previous version and also set new options.

The first time you run the current version of ColdFusion Studio, the ICW automatically starts, and it checks for a previous version.

• If one is found, you can selectively import options from the previous version.
• If one is not found, the wizard prompts you to set a few initial options.

When the wizard is finished, ColdFusion Studio starts.

You can run the ICW again at any time by selecting File > New from the menu and then selecting Initial Configuration Wizard from the Custom tab.

Setting up for the first time

This section explains how to complete the Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW) if you installed ColdFusion Studio for the first time, or if you uninstalled and installed it.

To complete the ICW after a first-time installation:

1. The ICW automatically starts when you run ColdFusion Studio for the first time.
2. In the initial welcome dialog box of the wizard, click Next.
3. In the Debug Settings dialog box, add, modify, or delete RDS server configurations s as needed. Click Next.
4. In the Debug Mappings dialog box, add, modify, or delete a mapping to a RDS server as needed. Click Next.

   You can view or modify this information later using the Debug menu commands.

5. In the Development Style dialog box, select the language toolbars to include in the QuickBar, and select or browse to the template that you want to use as your default for all ColdFusion Studio documents.
6. In the Perform Upgrade dialog box, confirm your selections (you can click Back and make changes if necessary), and then click Finish.

The initial configuration is complete and you can start using ColdFusion Studio.

Setting up from a previous version

This section explains how to complete the Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW) if you installed this version of ColdFusion Studio over a previous version (not uninstalling before you installed).

To complete the ICW after an upgrade:

1. The ICW automatically starts after you run ColdFusion Studio fro the first time after upgrading.
2. In the initial welcome dialog box of the wizard, click Next.
3. In the Upgrade Product Settings dialog box, note the items that you can upgrade, based on the changes made in the previous version. Click Next.

   What appears next depends on the changes made in the previous version.

   • If remote servers were defined in the previous version, the Upgrade Remote Servers dialog box appears.

     Select every server that you need for the current version or any previous version. (If you do not select a server in this list, it will no longer work in the previous version either.) Click Next.

   • If toolbars were added or modified, the Upgrade Toolbars dialog box appears.

     Select every toolbar change that you want to carry over to the current version and click Next.

   • If the previous version contained customizations such as shortcuts, snippets, code templates, and modifications to Tag Completion and Tag Insight, then the Upgrade Feature Customizations dialog box appears.

     Select every customization that you want to carry over to the current version and click Next.

4. In the Preserve Editor Settings dialog box, select the options to carry over to the current version. Click Next.

   You can change these options later by selecting Options > Settings and making changes in the Editor pane, Validation pane, and the panes underneath Editor.

5. In the Preserve General Settings dialog box, select the customizations to carry over to the current version. (Only non-default options appear.) Click Next.

   You can change these options later by selecting Options > Settings and making changes in the following panes: General, Markup Languages, Startup, Locations, File Settings, Browse, Spelling, Dreamweaver/UltraDev, Projects, and Tag Definitions Library.

6. In the Miscellaneous Settings dialog box, select the items whose options you want to carry over to the current version. For example, to carry over color coding customizations, select Color Settings. Or if Auto Completion was enabled in the previous version, and you want to keep it turned on in the current version, select Auto Completion. Click Next.
7. In the Debug Settings dialog box, add, modify, or delete RDS server configurations s as needed. Click Next.
8. In the Debug Mappings dialog box, add, modify, or delete a mapping to a RDS servers as needed. Click Next.

   You can view or modify this information later using the Debug menu commands.

   
   

   Note To import a localhost RDS development mapping from a previous version, complete the wizard, open Studio, expand the Macromedia FTP & RDS node on one of the Files tabs, right-click the localhost server and select Delete server. Then run the wizard again and import the previous version of the localhost RDS development mapping.

   
   
9. In the Development Style dialog box, select the language toolbars to include in the QuickBar, and select or browse to the template that you want to use as your default for all ColdFusion Studio documents.
10. In the Perform Upgrade dialog box, confirm your selections (you can click Back and make changes if necessary), and then click Finish.

The initial configuration is complete and you can start using ColdFusion Studio.

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