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cfindex

Description

Populates a Verity collection with metadata and creates indexes for searching it. Verity is a search

engine that you can integrate in a ColdFusion application to search physical files of various types

or a database query. Indexing database columns that result from a query lets users search the query

data much faster than they could if you used multiple SQL queries to return the same data.

You must define a Verity collection using the ColdFusion MX Administrator or the

cfcollection tag before creating indexes for the collection.

You also can index a Verity collection using the ColdFusion MX Administrator or by using a

native Verity indexing tool, such as Vspider or MKVDK. These options, however, limit you to

indexing a collection of files in a directory path.

For more information on creating, indexing, and searching a Verity collection, see Chapter 24,

“Building a Search Interface” in ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide.