I have a Verity Collection that indexes a few thousand files (MS Word, PDF, etc.) on a FTP site...external to our CF server.  Besides outputting

the url, key, title, score, and summary from Verity…I also wished to display to file name, file size, and most importantly…date

file updated or at least when pasted to the FTP site. 

 

So I Googled around and found the following cfscript that creates a file system object:

             <cfscript>

                        strFile = "#URL#";

                        fso = CreateObject("COM", "Scripting.FileSystemObject");

                        f = fso.GetFile(strFile);

            </cfscript>

 

With this script, I can display “f.name”, “f.path”, “f.size”, and “f.DateCreated” in conjunction with the regular Verity variables outputted from a files-based Verity Index

Collection.  I actually outputted from a Query-of-a-Query so the users could select a sort order…though limited to the regular Verity variables.  

 

OK, here are my problems:

1.       The users wish to be able to sort the results of a Verity search by file size and most importantly by dateCreated…which I output using the above cfscript.

2.       If a file is deleted directly from the ftp site…and a Verity search pulls that file, an error message is generated pointing to the above cfscript (instead of just a dead hyperlink).  Of course, the error disappears after re-indexing.

 

I thought about doing a cfdirectory query above Verity then somehow joining it on the query-of-a-query.  However, the FTP site files are at multiple folder levels and I think I heard that cfdirectory is not recursive on CF5? 

 

Your feedback / suggestions will be very much appreciated!

 

Note:  Our production server is still running CF5…though we will be migrating to CFMX 7 hopefully within the next 6 to 12 months.

 

Regards,

 

Gordon M. Cantor

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(803) 758-4621

 

 

 

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