Use the Verity Collections page to create a collection:
Click Server>Verity Collections in the ColdFusion Administrator navigation frame. The Verity Collections page appears.
Enter a name for your collection in the Name field. The name can consist of multiple words and spaces.
In the Path field, specify a path if you want to place the collection on another machine or in another location on the system. The default path at installation is: C:\CFusion\verity\collections.
From the drop-down Language list, select a language for the collection.
Click one of the available
options. Select:
Create New Collection if you are generating an entirely new
collection in ColdFusion.
Map Existing Collection if you are connecting a new mapping
to an existing collection that was created outside of ColdFusion or copied
from another ColdFusion machine. After the existing collection is referenced
on this page, ColdFusion searching and indexing tags can reference the
collection.
Click Submit
Changes to save the collection. The Connected Verity
Collections table at the bottom of the page shows the collection. You
can now populate the collection. For details, see Populate
a Verity collection.
Notes
When you add your first Verity collection, buttons for managing Verity collections display along the bottom of the table. For details, see Manage Verity collections.
Mapped collections are sometimes confused with external collections although the terms are different. An external collection is one that was created with tools other than ColdFusion, such as the Verity command line tool MKVDK. External collections are then mapped to, or associated with, ColdFusion so that ColdFusion can identify the collection and its different directory structure. Mapping then allows indexing to occur by taking this directory structure into account.