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Verity Collections
The Verity Development Kit (VDK) provides indexing and searching technology to
create, populate, and manage collections of indexed data that are optimized for fast
and efficient site searches. It is available on the Verity Collections page.
A collection is a logical group of documents and metadata about the documents. The
metadata includes word indexes, an internal documents table of document field
information, and logical pointers to the document files.
To use Verity searching in ColdFusion applications, you must:
1 Create a Verity collection.
2 Populate a collection with data.
3 Build searching and indexing capability, using the
cfindex
and
cfsearch
tags,
into your ColdFusion application.
To create a collection:
1 On the Verity Collection page, in the Name Field, enter a name for your
collection. The name can consist of multiple words and spaces.
2 In the Path field, specify a path for the collection files.
3 From the drop-down Language list box, select a language for the collection.
4 Click an option:
5 Click Submit Changes.
When you add the first Verity collection, buttons for managing Verity collections
display along the bottom of the table. For instructions about using these buttons, see
“Managing collections” on page 84 .
Note
Mapped collections are sometimes confused with external collections. An external
collection is created with a tool other than ColdFusion Server, such as the Verity
command line tool
mkvdk . External collections are then associated with ColdFusion
Server so that it can identify the collection and its directory structure.
Option Description
Create New
Collection Generates a new collection
Map Existing
Collection Connects a new mapping to a collection that was created outside
ColdFusion Server or copied from another ColdFusion Server.
After the collection is referenced on this page, ColdFusion
searching and indexing tags can reference it.
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