Thank you very much Eron,
I will look at these articles tonight and try to figure out the
problem. If I coudn't I will send the original code to you for help
tomorrow. (Sorry I don't mean asking your help during the holiday
weekend.You can get back to me nextweek)
Sima
At Fri, 26 May 2000 16:59:45 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> 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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>> charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>> <HTML><HEAD>
>> <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>
>> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
>> <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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