User Guide

380 Chapter 2: ColdFusion Tags
See also
cfcollection
, cfexecute, cfindex, cfobject, cfreport, cfwddx
History
ColdFusion MX 7:
• Added category, categoryTree, status, suggestions, contextPassages, contextBytes,
contextHighlightBegin, contextHighlightEnd, and previousCriteria attributes.
• Added author, category, categoryTree, context, rank, size, recordsSearched, and
type result columns.
• Added information on the status structure and its associated keys.
• Removed references to a separate K2 server and k2server.ini file.
• Removed references to unregistered collections.
• Removed references to external collections. ColdFusion MX now manages all collections
through the Verity Search service.
• Changed cflock recommendation. It is no longer a best practice to surround the cfsearch
tag with a
cflock tag.
ColdFusion MX:
• Deprecated the external attribute. It might not work, and might cause an error, in later
releases. (ColdFusion stores this information about each collection; it automatically detects
whether a collection is internal or external.) This tag supports absolute (also known as fully
qualified) collection pathnames and mapped collection names.
• Changed query result behavior: the cfindex tag can index the query results from a cfsearch
operation.
• Changed Verity operations behavior: ColdFusion supports Verity operations on Acrobat PDF
files.
• Changed multiple collection behavior: this tag can search multiple collections. In a multiple
collection search, you cannot combine collections that are registered with K2Server and
registered in another way.
• Changed acceptable collection naming: this tag accepts collection names that include spaces.
• Changed the following support: this tag supports Verity 2.6.1 and the LinguistX and ICU
locales.
• Changed thrown exceptions: this tag can throw the SEARCHENGINE exception.
Attributes
Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
name Required Name of the search query.
collection Required One or more collection names. You can specify more
than one collection unless you are performing a
category search (that is, specifying
category or
categoryTree).