Data & Services section

The Data & Services section of the Administrator is the interface between you, ColdFusion MX, data sources, and Verity search and indexing features. The following table describes some common tasks that you can perform in the Data & Services section of the Administrator:

Task

Description

Create and manage JDBC data sources

The Data Sources page lets you establish, edit, and delete JDBC data source connections for ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Chapter 3, "Data Source Management".

Create and maintain Verity collections

The Verity Collections page lets you create and delete Verity collections and perform maintenance operations on collections that you create. For more information, see "Verity Collections page".

Register a Verity K2 Server with ColdFusion MX

The Verity K2 Server page lets you register a K2 Server to use with ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Working with Verity Tools.

Define mappings for web services

Web services let you produce and consume remote application functionality over the internet. For more information, see "Web Services page".

Task	Description
Create and manage JDBC data sources	The Data Sources page lets you establish, edit, and delete JDBC data source connections for ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Chapter 3, "Data Source Management".
Create and maintain Verity collections	The Verity Collections page lets you create and delete Verity collections and perform maintenance operations on collections that you create. For more information, see "Verity Collections page".
Register a Verity K2 Server with ColdFusion MX	The Verity K2 Server page lets you register a K2 Server to use with ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Working with Verity Tools.
Define mappings for web services	Web services let you produce and consume remote application functionality over the internet. For more information, see "Web Services page".

Data Sources page

The Data Sources page lets you create, edit, and delete data sources. Before you can use a database in a ColdFusion application, you must register the data source in the ColdFusion Administrator. For more information, see Chapter 3, "Data Source Management".

Verity Collections page

The Verity Development Kit (VDK) provides indexing and searching technology to create, populate, and manage collections of indexed data that are optimized for fast and efficient site searches. It is available on the Verity Collections page.

A collection is a logical group of documents and metadata about the documents. The metadata includes word indexes, an internal documents table of document field information, and logical pointers to the document files.

For more information about building search interfaces, see the chapters about the cfindex, cfsearch, and cfcollection tags in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML.

ColdFusion lets you manage your collections from the Administrator. You can index, repair, optimize, purge, or delete Verity collections that are connected to ColdFusion. You use the buttons along the bottom of the Connected Verity Collections table to perform the following actions:

Action

Description

Index

Analyzes the files in a collection and assembles metadata and pointers to the files.

Repair

Re-indexes a collection to fix broken links and update indexes.

Optimize

Reclaims space left by deleted and changed files by consolidating collection indexes for faster searching. You should optimize collections regularly.

Purge

Deletes all documents in a collection, but not the collection itself. Leaves the collection directory structure intact.

Delete

Deletes a collection.

Action	Description
Index	Analyzes the files in a collection and assembles metadata and pointers to the files.
Repair	Re-indexes a collection to fix broken links and update indexes.
Optimize	Reclaims space left by deleted and changed files by consolidating collection indexes for faster searching. You should optimize collections regularly.
Purge	Deletes all documents in a collection, but not the collection itself. Leaves the collection directory structure intact.
Delete	Deletes a collection.

Note: Before performing management operations, ensure that the K2 Server is not using the collections. For more information, see Working with Verity Tools.

Verity K2 Server page

For faster searching, configure a K2 Server in the ColdFusion Administrator. The high-performance K2 Server caches collection information so that your searches retrieve documents more quickly. The Verity K2 Server delivers rapid search results in a highly efficient and scalable architecture.

For more information on configuring and using K2 Server with ColdFusion, see Working with Verity Tools.

Web Services page

You can use web services to produce and consume remote application functionality over the Internet. The ColdFusion Administrator lets you register web services so that you do not have to specify the entire Web Services Description Language (WSDL) URL when you reference the web service. The first time you reference a web service, ColdFusion automatically registers it in the Administrator.

When you register a web service, you can shorten your code and change a web service's URL without editing your code. For more information, see Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML.

Administering ColdFusion MX
Basic ColdFusion MX Administration

Data & Services section

Data Sources page

Verity Collections page

Verity K2 Server page

Web Services page

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