User Guide

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Working with data returned from a query 575
To search and display the query results:
1.
Create a ColdFusion page with the following content:
<html>
<head>
<title>Searching a collection</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Searching a collection</h2>
<form method="post" action="collection_db_results.cfm">
<p>Collection name: <input type="text" name="collname" size="30"
maxLength="30"></p>
<p>Enter search term(s) in the box below. You can use AND, OR, NOT,
and parentheses. Surround an exact phrase with quotation marks.</p>
<p><input type="text" name="criteria" size="50" maxLength="50">
</p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Search"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
2.
Save the file as collection_db_search_form.cfm in the myapps directory under the web_root.
This file is similar to collection_search_form.cfm, except the form uses
collection_db_results.cfm, which you create in the next step, as its action page.
3.
Create another ColdFusion page with the following content:
<html>
<head>
<title>Search Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfsearch
collection="#Form.collname#"
name="getEmps"
criteria="#Form.Criteria#"
maxrows = "100">
<!--- Output the record set. --->
<cfoutput>
Your search returned #getEmps.RecordCount# file(s).
</cfoutput>
<cfoutput query="getEmps">
<p><table>
<tr><td>Title: </td><td>#Title#</td></tr>
<tr><td>Score: </td><td>#Score#</td></tr>
<tr><td>Key: </td><td>#Key#</td></tr>
<tr><td>Summary: </td><td>#Summary#</td></tr>