Mark, Don't see this as a specific endorsement of Verity -- but I thought I should answer given I wrote the bulk of Verity plugin for FarCry framework [1].
On 11/12/2007, Mark Picker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Verity engine is a little more limited than what I originally thought, > for example: you can only search the contents of the body, not the custom1, > 2, 3 and 4 fields or the title field. This is not entirely true. You can search specifically for or filter for any content indexed against the four custom fields. I don't believe you can filter specifically against the title. At least not through verity. Note the sample search page for FarCry may not take advantage of this fact. Obviously to filter for a specific field you need a UI that can nominate the filter and so on. > I did have a look at using the new Category feature, but aside from it still > being too limited (by the amount of fields I possibly need to filter by) it's > considerably slower to search than when not using categories. Using a small > sample of 1250 records, searching without categories took an average of > 150ms, when restricting the same search using categories it took on average > 3500ms. I think this may have been a cf7 specific issue -- are you running cf8? If not you may see an improvement in this area by upgrading. Either way I can confirm that category searches on cf7 were not a great option -- we dumped them entirely. You actually have a lot of options if you can populate the custom fields correctly, and hopefully the Verity plugin for FarCry is at least doing that much for you: - you can break your content into multiple collections -- FarCry already does this by content type - you can definitely filter within the CUSTOM field -- you just need to look for the specific syntax in the verity docs - you can do a "search within search results" using CFSEARCH by nominating the *previouscriteria* attribute - you can also perform Query of Query filters on the resulting Verity record set. Interestingly enough, the following website uses all of the above techniques: http://www.taxinstitute.com.au/go/search/advanced-search All the best, -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ [1]: http://www.farcrycms.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294482 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
