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Creating a Searchable Data Source
Creating a Searchable Data Source
You must do the following steps to create a searchable data source:
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You can use the Verity Wizard in ColdFusion Studio to create ColdFusion pages that
index and search a collection. (The wizard does not create a page for creating the
collection.) To run the wizard, select File > New and select the Verity Wizard from the
CFML tab in the New Document dialog box.
Creating a Collection
The Verity engine performs searches against collections. A collection is a special
database created by Verity that contains pointers to the indexed data that you specify
for that collection. ColdFusion's Verity implementation supports collections of three
basic data types:
You can build a collection from individual documents or from an entire directory
tree. Collections can be stored anywhere, so you have a great deal of flexibility in
accessing indexed data.
You can use either of the following methods to create a Verity collection:
Using the ColdFusion Administrator to create a collection
You can use the ColdFusion Administrator to create a new collection or map an
existing collection.
Creating a new collection
Use the following procedure to create a new collection.
To create a collection:
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Create a collection.
You can do this either through the ColdFusion Administrator or
programmatically.
Populate and index the collection.
You must select the data and generate the index. You can perform this task either
through the ColdFusion Administrator or programmatically.
Design a search interface and a results page so that users can access the
searchable data source.
Text files such as HTML pages and CFML pages
Binary documents (see "Supported File Types" on page 271)
Result sets returned from
Make selections on the ColdFusion Administrator Verity Collections page
Code the
cfcollection
Open the ColdFusion Administrator Verity Collections page.
,
, and
cfquery
cfldap
tag
queries
cfpop
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