Verity Collections - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5 - INSTALING AND CONFIGURING SERVER Manual

Verity Collections

Verity Collections

The Verity Development Kit (VDK) provides indexing and searching technology to
create, populate, and manage collections of indexed data that are optimized for fast
and efficient site searches. It is available on the Verity Collections page.
A collection is a logical group of documents and metadata about the documents. The
metadata includes word indexes, an internal documents table of document field
information, and logical pointers to the document files.
To use Verity searching in ColdFusion applications, you must:
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To create a collection:
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When you add the first Verity collection, buttons for managing Verity collections
display along the bottom of the table. For instructions about using these buttons, see
"Managing collections" on page
Note
Mapped collections are sometimes confused with external collections. An external
collection is created with a tool other than ColdFusion Server, such as the Verity
command line tool
Server so that it can identify the collection and its directory structure.
Create a Verity collection.
Populate a collection with data.
Build searching and indexing capability, using the
into your ColdFusion application.
On the Verity Collection page, in the Name Field, enter a name for your
collection. The name can consist of multiple words and spaces.
In the Path field, specify a path for the collection files.
From the drop-down Language list box, select a language for the collection.
Click an option:
Option Description
Create New Generates a new collection
Collection
Map Existing Connects a new mapping to a collection that was created outside
Collection ColdFusion Server or copied from another ColdFusion Server.
After the collection is referenced on this page, ColdFusion
searching and indexing tags can reference it.
Click Submit Changes.
mkvdk
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. External collections are then associated with ColdFusion
and
cfindex cfsearch
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tags,