MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7 - INSTALLING AND USING COLDFUSION MX, Reference

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ColdFusion MX:
•
The
action
attribute value
optimize
is obsolete. It does not work, and might cause an error,
in ColdFusion MX.
•
Changed the
external
attribute behavior: it is not necessary to specify the
external
attribute. (ColdFusion automatically detects whether a collection is internal or external.)
•
Changed Verity operations behavior: ColdFusion supports Verity operations on Acrobat PDF
files.
•
Changed thrown exceptions: this tag can throw the SEARCHENGINE exception.
•
Changed acceptable collection naming: this tag accepts collection names that include spaces.
•
Changed query result behavior: the
cfindex
tag can index the query results from a
cfsearch
tag.
Attributes
Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
collection Required Name of a collection that is registered by ColdFusion; for
example,
"personnel"
.
action Required
•
update: updates a collection and adds
key
to the index.
•
delete: removes collection documents as specified by
the
key
attribute.
• purge: deletes all of the documents in a collection.
Causes the collection to be taken offline, preventing
searches.
•
refresh: deletes all of the documents in a collection, and
then performs an update.
type Optional
custom
, if
query
attribute is
specified.
Otherwise,
file
.
•
file: applies
action
value to filename, including path.
Expects a filename in the
key
attribute.
•
path: applies
action
to files in a directory path that pass
the
extensions
filter. Expects a directory name in the
key
attribute.
•
custom: applies
action
to custom data; for example, to
data from a query.
title Optional Provides a title for the document if one cannot be
extracted from the document.
key Required (empty
string) The value specified for key depends on the
type
attribute:
• If
type = "file"
, the directory path and filename for the
file,
•
If
type = "path"
, the directory path for the location of the
files.
•
If
type = "custom"
, a unique identifier that specifies the
location of the data, For a query, the name of the
column that holds the primary key, for example. If not a
query, an identifier such as the URL for a web page, for
example.