What you can do with the Verity Fuel Pack

With the Verity Fuel Pack you can index all your HTML and CFML documents and you can build and search indexes of database tables. Here are some ideas:

• Index your web site and provide a generalized search mechanism, like a form interface for executing searches.

• Index specific directories containing HTML documents for subject-based searching.

• Index database tables giving your end users the ability to perform custom queries against data you’ve indexed.

• Generate Verity collections from databases that contain large amounts of textual data. Once this infomation is indexed, you can provide very snappy access to this data using the Verity search engine.

• Index email generated by Cold Fusion templates and create a searching mechanism to point at the indexed messages.

• Build collections of inventory data and make those collections available for searching from your Cold Fusion templates.

You can index libraries of HTML documents and other ASCII text files as well as database tables. You can index specific documents, or choose an entire directory tree as the target of your collection. Collections can be stored anywhere so you have a lot of flexibility in storing and accessing indexed data. The Verity Fuel Pack can add enormous value to any content-rich web site.

The Verity Fuel Pack can be used to index your database tables, so that you or an end user can perform queries against your database, just as if you were using the CFQUERY CFML tag. The advantages of using the Verity Fuel Pack include the speed of execution. Results are returned very quickly. In addition, you can reduce the programming overhead of building CFQUERY constructs by allowing users to perform their own queries and executing them directly. You need only be concerned about presenting the output to the client browser.

This section introduces Fuel Pack components and summarizes what's needed to implement the Verity search engine in your Cold Fusion applications.