Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 482

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Accessing and Using Data
• Build collections of inventory data and make those collections available for searching from your ColdFusion
application pages.
• Support international users in a range of languages using the
Advantages of using Verity
Verity can index the output from queries so that you or a user can search against the recordsets. Searching query results
has a clear advantage over using SQL to search a database directly in speed of execution because metadata from the
recordsets are stored in a Verity index that is optimized for searching.
Performing a Verity search has the following advantages over other search methods:
• You can reduce the programming overhead of query constructs by allowing users to construct their own queries
and execute them directly. You need to be concerned only with presenting the output to the client web browser.
• Verity can index database text fields, such as notes and product descriptions, that native database tools cannot
effectively index.
• When indexing collections that contain documents in formats such as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and Microsoft Word,
Verity scans for the document title (if one was entered), in addition to the document text, and displays the title in
the search results list.
• When Verity indexes web pages, it can return the URL for each document. This is a valuable document
management feature.
For more information, see "Indexing data returned by a
Supported file types
The ColdFusion Verity implementation supports a wide array of file and document types. As a result, you can index
web pages, ColdFusion applications, and many binary document types and produce search results that include
summaries of these documents.
Verity supports the following formats:
Document format Format
Text and markup ANSI (TXT)
ASCII (TXT)
HTML (HTM)
IBM DCA/RFT (Revisable Form Text) (DC)
Rich Text Format/WordPad (RTF)
Unicode Text (TXT)
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