The Verity Search'97 indexing and searching technology, which has been incorporated into ColdFusion, provides a means for creating collections of indexed data optimized for fast retrieval.
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To use Verity searching and indexing technology you: |
For more information about populating and searching Verity collections using the CFINDEX and CFSEARCH tags, see Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion.
The Verity Collections page in the Administrator provides a means for creating collections. Collections can also be created and populated externally using native Verity tools. See your Verity documentation for more information about using native Verity tools.
Use the Verity Collections page to:
Before you can search collections using the CFSEARCH tag in your ColdFusion application, you must first create the collection and then populate it with data.
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To create a collection, follow these steps: |
Now, you can populate the collection with data.
Once you've created a collection, you can populate it with data from text and binary files in a directory you specify. Data from a ColdFusion query can only be indexed using the ColdFusion CFINDEX tag in a ColdFusion application page.
Verity indexes all supported file types found in the target directory. See Verity Supported File Types for more information.