ColdFusion MX Professional Projects

Project 5 Overview

This project deals with creating document- and database-based collections to be used for searching by using the Verity search engine. Here you'll create the Worldwide Search application for InfoTools Inc., which sells hardware equipment such as laptops and printers. InfoTools Inc. needs this application so that various salespersons around the world can search for presentations, proposals, and product specifications whenever they need them.

The sales executives using this application will be able to perform the following tasks:

• Search sales interaction data by providing keywords.

• Search collections created from documents, such as presentations and proposals.

The administrator will be able to perform the following tasks:

• Create document-based collections.

• Create database-based collections.

• Delete and refresh different types of collections.

The Worldwide Search application uses the Verity search engine to perform the search on database-based and document-based collections. This application uses searchable collections and performs various operations on them, such as indexing, updating, and deleting.

This application will use a Microsoft SQL 2000 database for saving sales interaction data. ColdFusion MX provides <CFCOLLECTION> and <CFINDEX> tags to work with Verity collections. The key points that are covered while creating the Worldwide Search application are as follows:

• Creating and indexing document-based collections programmatically using the <CFCOLLECTION> and <CFINDEX> tags

• Creating and indexing collections on different fields of a table in a database

• Using the <CFSEARCH> tag to search the collections

• Updating, refreshing, and deleting entries from a collection