Sounds easy enough, I'm still checking the verity plugin and although setup i keep getting 0 results, guess I'll go and do it like you did.
One positive side of exploring the verity plugin was that i discovered how easy you can use ajax by just using: bAjaxSubmission="true" ajaxMaskMsg="Searching..." action="whatever.cfm" Awesomeee... On May 15, 12:01 pm, BazD <[email protected]> wrote: > No probs at alll Marco, thanks for your input also. > > Ive had a mess around with verity collections and its all very > straightforward indeed. I created a site search tool in about 15 > minutes. > > Simply a case of creating/indexing the collection within cf admin, > then build a simple <form> that contains the field to hold the search > keyword and submit the form to a search results page that simply uses > <cfsearch> to query the verity collection and use various other > elements of the cfsearch tag to display the results. Ive not really > had many opportunities to mess about with Verity, but it makes site > searching very simple indeed. > > On May 14, 11:23 am, Marco van den Oever <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Awesome, thanks for sharing your happiness :) > > > On May 14, 11:16 am, BazD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It would appear I can simply go into the coldfusion admin and make a > > > collection that comprises of indexed document files within a certain > > > folder, if its as easy as that, Ive found a perfect solution out of > > > the box :) > > > >http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=ind... > > > > On May 13, 6:45 pm, Marco van den Oever <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Ok well euhmm i don't know :) Isn't that functionality you could build > > > > into the existing plugin? > > > > Haven't looked into it enough to see the possibilities and / or > > > > limitations. > > > > > On May 13, 6:20 pm, BazD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Marco > > > > > > Yeah, Ive had a look at the Farcry verity config and can see a list of > > > > > content that can be built into a collection, but Im not sure how I > > > > > could create a verity collection unique to just one section of a > > > > > website that comprised solely of dmHTML - wouldnt verity collect and > > > > > build a collection that comprises of all dmHTML content throughout the > > > > > entire site only ? It just the one specific section that I want to > > > > > search, not the entire site. Hmmm. > > > > > > On May 13, 4:26 pm, Marco van den Oever <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Right now i am checking the farcryverity plugin and, i hope i > > > > > > understand what you want to do, as it seems you can create all kinds > > > > > > of verity collections, these can be used (i think) by using them or > > > > > > not in your search webskin. > > > > > > > Did you already checked this plugin? All the webtop admin settings > > > > > > etc? > > > > > > > On May 13, 5:06 pm, BazD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > As an additional new note on this, is it possible for one farcry > > > > > > > project to utilise 2 different verity search collections ? > > > > > > > If I was to convert the user manual from flat HTML into database > > > > > > > format, Id look to collect all the data into a unique verity > > > > > > > collection, so when a search is conducted with the user manual > > > > > > > section, the search results returned do not get populated with > > > > > > > results > > > > > > > from areas outside of the user manual section, if that makes any > > > > > > > sense > > > > > > > (!) > > > > > > > > On May 13, 11:00 am, BazD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > > Im wondering if it is at all possible to either do something > > > > > > > > with > > > > > > > > Farcrys built-in search function, or create some bespoke cfmx > > > > > > > > script > > > > > > > > that can open a designated folder on the server, scan through > > > > > > > > all page > > > > > > > > content of all html pages that reside within and return matches > > > > > > > > in a > > > > > > > > compiled list for the user to click to access the page with the > > > > > > > > match ? I know this can be done using .ASP quite easily, so im > > > > > > > > wondering whether coldfusion can do this ? Its basically a word > > > > > > > > search > > > > > > > > (via a simple html form) but without a database to hold the > > > > > > > > content. > > > > > > > > > Reason Im asking this is Ive been give a 400page user manual, > > > > > > > > which is > > > > > > > > all in flat html, all very nicely done, and ive got to create > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > facility to search through the manual, and the last thing I > > > > > > > > want to do > > > > > > > > is to convert every page into database format. > > > > > > > > > Any help very much appreciated. > > > > > > > > > B > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. 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