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Anonymous
May 28, 2010
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can verity access MS word file properties?

  • May 28, 2010
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My employer has a radiology system that generates MS word files with seemingly random numeric filenames.  The useful information (the patient's MR# and name) are stored in the word file's properties.

I am wonderign if i can use ColdFusion and Verity to make a web based frontend to allow users to seach these files based on the MR# and name values stored in the file properties.

I knwo verity can search the body of these documents but i don't know if it can access the file properties.

any advice would be appreciated...

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    May 31, 2010

    I don't know the answer, but if I found myself in the position of needing to find out, I'd index one of the files and then search on a file property and see if Verity came back with a match...

    I doubt Verity is clever enough to no the difference between the body of the Word doc and the properties, no.  But it might still index the part of the file that has the properties.


    Are you using CF9?  Is using Solr instead an option?  I dunno whether it knows about Word doc properties, but it might...

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    Adam

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