Sima,
What happens when you manually type in a search word that you know must
exist in your collection?
Can you post the rest of the code you're using?
Eron
PS- There have been alot of helpful posts regarding verity recently. I
don't have any of others handy, but here's some information I posted a few
weeks ago that may help you:
1) The verity search engine built into CF is somewhat stripped down from
the full version. Although, as I have learned from posts on this forum, the
version that comes with Cold Fusion is full of "undocumented features" that
coincidently turn out to be features in the full version :-O
2) To say the least, Verity can be weird.
I've definitely had my share of problems with Verity. Probably the worst
one of all is that it doesn't tell you when there's an error...it just
doesn't work. Here are a couple of other points from my presentation that
may help (If you do go looking for the entire presentation, its under PAST
MEETINGS > February > Eron Cohen):
--Verity searches can be CaSe sensitive. I typically force keyword searches
into lower case.
--When using CFINDEX you must be sure that all the fields you include in the
BODY= parameters are valid fields from your query. Often you won�t get an
error message and your index won�t work!
And possibly the biggest GOTCHA:
--**********ALWAYS make sure your KEY= field is unique for EVERY record. If
you don�t do this, as soon as verity encounters a duplicate key it will stop
indexing there (and it won�t give you any error messages!)***************
3) I have done quite a bit of indexing of large amounts of data. I am not
exactly sure what the limit is, but in fact, there IS a limit to the size of
your collections! This is documented in Allaire�s KB (article #11934).
This is something you can get around because in CFSEARCH you can name more
than 1 collection to search at the same time, so you can always break down
what you want to search into separate collections.
I recently gave a presentation about Verity searches at the Maryland Cold
Fusion user's group. You can download my PowerPoint slides there:
http://www.cfug-md.org/meetings.cfm (February 8th 2000)
-----Original Message-----
From: Sima Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 4:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: verity search problem
Thank you for such a quick response. But I tried everything like the
following and it doesn't work:
CFSEARCH COLLECTION="test"
NAME="GetItems"
CRITERIA="#Form.criteria#">
or
<CFSEARCH COLLECTION="test"
NAME="GetItems"
CRITERIA=Form.criteria>
or
<CFSEARCH COLLECTION="test"
NAME="GetItems"
CRITERIA="Form.criteria">
They all return "0" record.
Sima
----- Original Message -----
From: Eron Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: verity search problem
> One thing that could be wrong: I believe you actually NEED # signs for
your
> Criteria= statement...
> What happens if you use:
>
> <CFSEARCH COLLECTION="test"
> NAME="GetItems"
> CRITERIA="#Form.criteria#">
>
> HTH,
>
> Eron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sima Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: verity search problem
>
>
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> Hi All,
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> I am new to ColdFusion and try to use verity search . This is the =
> problem I got:
> I created a collection and indexed it . It says there is 8 records in it =
> , which is true. But when I use the cfsearch tag to search , it always =
> gives me zero records no matter what I type in as a criteria. But if I =
> change Criteria=3D"" in the search tag it gives me all the 8 records. =
> For example:
>
> <CFSEARCH COLLECTION=3D"test"=20
> NAME=3D"GetItems"=20
> CRITERIA=3D"Form.criteria">
> Will return 0 record.
>
> but
> <CFSEARCH COLLECTION=3D"test"=20
> NAME=3D"GetItems"=20
> CRITERIA=3D"">
>
> will return all the 8 records.
>
> Could anybody tell me why the criteria does not work? Thanks in advance.
>
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> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" =
> http-equiv=3DContent-Type>
> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=3DGENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
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> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am new to ColdFusion and try to use =
> verity search=20
> . This is the problem I got:</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I created a collection and indexed it . =
> It says=20
> there is 8 records in it , which is true. But when I use the =
> cfsearch tag=20
> to search , it always gives me zero records no matter what I type in as =
> a=20
> criteria. But if I change Criteria=3D"" in the search tag it =
> gives me=20
> all the 8 records. For example:</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><CFSEARCH=20
> COLLECTION=3D"test" <BR> &n=
> bsp; =20
> NAME=3D"GetItems" =
> <BR> =20
> CRITERIA=3D"Form.criteria"></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Will return 0 record.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>but
> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><CFSEARCH=20
> COLLECTION=3D"test" <BR> &n=
> bsp; =20
> NAME=3D"GetItems" =
> <BR> =20
> CRITERIA=3D""></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV>will return all the 8 records.</DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV>Could anybody tell me why the criteria does not work? Thanks in=20
> advance.</DIV></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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