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CHAPTER 7
Introducing Verity Tools
This chapter provides an overview of the advanced Verity features included in ColdFusion MX.
These include several utilities that you can use to configure, manage, and troubleshoot search
functionality in your ColdFusion applications. This chapter also introduces the Verity K2 Server,
which lets you provide high-performance search capabilities for your ColdFusion applications.
Contents
About the Verity utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Collection structure and ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Verity search modes in ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
About K2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
About the Verity utilities
ColdFusion MX includes several Verity utilities to diagnose and manage your collections. These
tools include the mkvdk, rcvdk, rck2, and vspider utilities.
The following table describes the relationship between the major Verity utilities and the
corresponding
cfcollection, cfsearch, and cfindex ColdFusion tags (the cfcollection tag
operates on the entire collection; the
cfindex tag operates on records within a collection). For
more information, see Chapter 12, “Troubleshooting Collections with Verity Utilities,”
on page 149.
Note: Collections created with ColdFusion MX and those created externally using native Verity tools
differ in structure. When performing operations on Verity collections created with ColdFusion MX,
you may be required to include the full path to the collection. For more information, see “Collection
structure and ColdFusion MX” on page 86.
cfcollection cfindex cfsearch
utility create repair delete optimize update delete purge refresh search
mkvdk X X X X X X X
rcvdk VDK mode search
rck2 K2 mode search
vspider X X X X X X