Creating A Search Tool For Coldfusion Applications - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

Creating a search tool for ColdFusion applications

There are three main tasks in creating a search tool for your ColdFusion application:
Create a collection.
1
Index the collection.
2
Design a search interface.
3
You can perform each task programmatically—that is, by writing CFML code. Alternatively, you
can use the ColdFusion MX Administrator to create and index the collection. Also, HomeSite+
has a Verity Wizard that generates ColdFusion pages that index the collection and design a search
interface. The following table summarizes the steps and available methods for creating the search
tool:
Step
Creating a collection
Indexing a collection
Designing a search interface
This chapter presents the non-code methods for developing a search tool, followed by code
examples that perform the same task. If you have HomeSite+ and access to the ColdFusion MX
Administrator, the fastest development method is as follows:
Create the collection with the ColdFusion MX Administrator.
1
Use the Verity Wizard to index the collection and design a search interface.
2
ColdFusion MX
CFML Administrator
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Creating a search tool for ColdFusion applications

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