Verity Searches

[Guest]

Hi,

Is there a way to find out the most often typed search terms used against my verity collections?

[Newsgroup_User]

verity does not record what a collection has been searched for. you have
to log searched phrases manually in a db/file.

hth


Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Guest]

Thanks. Does the same apply for Lucene?

[Newsgroup_User]

i have not used Lucene, but i would assume it does apply to it, too.
Verity-like collections are just that - collections of
documents/references/data. They will search their collections' contents
based on user input, but they do not natively integrate with any
specific db or other storage engine - you have to capture user input and
store it separately if you need to. If I am totally wrong about this
someone will correct me.

In any case, capturing user input is very simple to implement: you
probably have a form with a search box for users to search your
collections - just save user input in the db before performing cfsearch.

You can even extend it further to check if a user has actually typed
anything in the search box and perform cfsearch only when there is a
valid user input, and display a "Please enter your search phrase"
warning otherwise...

iirc, there are also ways to check what cfsearch actually searched for,
but exact implementation of that with Verity skips my mind right now...
(had a few beers already 🙂 )

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/