Verity Collections

[refugeo]

COLDFUSIONMX HELP PAGE SAYS: 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. In simple terms how is this best
used, what is it.... when these are created are they for internet, intranet,
searching files on my computer??? Can any one point me to a URL that uses a
Verity Collection (Is this a Search utility???) Sorry ,if this is a lame
question but after making the collection_create_form.cfm from help page
tutorial and running it I can't see what I could use it for.

[jdeline]

A Verity collection is a group of files on the server that have been indexed.
They can be .txt, .doc, .pdf, .ppt, .xls -- lots of file formats.

By indexed, I mean that every word in every file has been placed in an index
that is created and maintained by the Verity engine.

Verity is quite like an internet search engine. You build a ColdFusion form,
enter your search criteria in the form's text box and click the submit button.
The ensuing page will take your search string and tell Verity to return the
file name of all documents from the collection that match your search. These
files can then be displayed as hot links, much like Google.

Incidentily, you can also create a Verity collection on one or more columns of
a database.

[himanshumalani]

Hi I install weblogic with coldfusion support. when I access administrator from
coldefusion and when I try to open verity collections from admin in cold fusion
it give me error message that "You must configure your application server to
enable Verity. For instructions, see "Installing and Using ColdFusion MX." I
refer installation process and set path in startweblogic.cmd after that I
restart server. when I come back to access that verity collections it give me
same error message.

[bhilyer]

I am in the process of moving applications from a cf5 server to a cf6 server.
These applications build verity collections on the fly. Is there a way for me
to copy the verity collections from the cf5 server to the cf6 server? or do I
have to create the verity collections within cf administrator manually?

[TiGGi]

Hi all,
Little problem here with vspider, I ru8n the script which I will post on the
end, and it looks it runs fine. There's buch of inserts and skipps, bad keys.
When it comes to the summary on the end it says:
Vspider Summary: Submitteed 1236 documents for insert, 0 document for
deletion, 0 documents for update;
Progress: [vspider] ,ind010020> Vspider Summary: Indexed 0 documnets, 1236
bad documents......
So it looks like all the document that were suposed to be indexed it marked
them as bad. These are just regular pages, no weird characters or broken
links. Does anyone knows what's going on here???? brokenheart;

Here's my vspider code:


C:\CFusionMX7\verity\k2\_nti40\bin\vspider -style
C:\CFusionMX7\verity\Data\stylesets\ColdFusionVspi der\ -collection
C:\CFusionMX7\verity\collections\RHSpider -start [url]http://localhost[/url] -cgiok
-abspath -reparse -indmimeinclude text/* -indmimeexclude text/css -prefixmap
spidermap.txt -loglevel verbose
pause

[TiGGi]

Anyone?