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Using CATEGORY with CFSEARCH returns no values. Using it without works...

Asked by: krugar77

I am a little perplexed by this and I must be doing something wrong. I am running CFMX7 on RE4 if that helps.

I have created several verity collections and enabled category support for them. I have indexed my content and by doing a dump can see I have 46 records and that my categories are set properly.

When I do a cfsearch and include category=xxx I get zero results.

When I do a cfsearch and DO NOT include the category tag I get results.

Even at the most simplistic programming level it doesnt work. Here is a basic idea of what I am trying to do:

=====returns no results======
<cfsearch collection="meetings_data" name="get_info" criteria="hotel" category="boston">

<cfoutput>
#get_info.summary#<br>
</cfoutput>

<cfdump var="#get_info #">

=====returns 1 results======
<cfsearch collection="meetings_data" name="get_info" criteria="hotel">

<cfoutput>
#get_info.summary#<br>
</cfoutput>

<cfdump var="#get_info #">

The dump does show that the CATEGORY for the record is boston. I dont get it. I must be missing something simple.

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2007-09-21 at 12:07:32ID22845037
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Answers

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2007-09-21 at 16:15:50ID: 19939794

Make sure that in your code that indexes the content, that it does not use any spaces in the category field. If there is a space then that will cause problems.

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2007-09-21 at 16:20:06ID: 19939806

for example if in your cfindex you enter
<cfindex category="cat1, cat2, cat3"...

then that will put the document in categories of 'cat1' and ' cat2' and ' cat3'

it needs to be like:
<cfindex category="cat1,cat2,cat3"...

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2007-09-24 at 08:18:54ID: 19949042

No that isn't the issue. My code is the following:
<cfindex
   query="get_cssi_meetings"
   collection="meetings_data"
   action="Refresh"
   type="Custom"
   key="cssi_key"
   title="cssi_name"
   body="cssi_name"
   custom1 = "cssi_name"  
   custom2 = "cssi_link"
   category ="boston">


As I stated I can do a dump on the collection and see the proper records and can see that boston is listed as the category.

However, when I do s CFSEARCH and specify a category I get no results. When I do the same search and remove the category I get results. Even though the collection has categories enabled and a dump of the collection verifies the data.

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2007-09-24 at 11:21:36ID: 19950422

Have you read through this article yet?
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/search_cf7_04.html

From the way you are describing it it sounds like you are doing eveything correctly, The only thing I can think of is maybe it doesn't work well with custom collections, perhaps the category/categorytree functionality only works with file/path colections or something. I've used categories with file collections but never a custom one...I am going to test to see If I can get it to work a little later today and I'll get back to you.

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2007-09-24 at 12:47:35ID: 19951191

Thank you for the follow up SBennett. Any follow-up would be appreicated as I sadly don't have the time today to test it on a file collection to see if there is any difference.

I did check with:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000278.htm

and I did not notice any restriction for using categories on differing types. I am as bewildered as you are. One would think the collection and index would not work if that was the case. Sadly it isn't. I'll play around some more and see what I can find too.

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2007-09-25 at 08:31:05ID: 19956558

Well I've done more digging. I don't know what the problem is but it now works. I deleted and recreated the collection in the CFADMIN. That didn't work. So I deleted the collection in CFADMIN, restarted CF and manually using tags and not the CFADMIN created the collection. That works. Odd. Very odd.

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2007-09-25 at 09:34:12ID: 19957025

hmmm that is strange... perhaps there is a bug in cfadmin. what version of cf are you runing on?

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2007-09-28 at 14:30:02ID: 19981912

7.02 I believe

 

by: jeninbrightonPosted on 2007-11-22 at 09:20:30ID: 20335459

This happened to me too, and I couldn't find much in the way of help or documentation about Verity (other than the basics).  What seemed to work in the end, was not only deleting the collection, but actually deleting and renaming it.   My theory is that it has something to do with creating a query without categories, then deleting it and re-creating it WITH categories.  It goes a bit wonky.  Hope this helps!

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2008-03-13 at 14:40:31ID: 21121155

delete and restart seemed to work.

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2008-03-13 at 16:02:05ID: 21121655

It seems to me that jeninbrighton should get the points.

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2008-03-14 at 05:44:24ID: 21124881

How does it work if I did what someone suggested before they suggested and forgot to check the post until now? Can I assign partial points?

Also as a side note I only had to delete not delete and rename as was suggested. The deletion however did not work as a fix until CF was restarted which was not suggested. Can't explain it but that's what it took to work.

 

by: SBennettPosted on 2008-03-14 at 07:52:59ID: 21126068

General rules of thumb for point giving:

If an expert posts the correct answer, you should award them the points with a grade of "A".

If an expert gives most of an answer but maybe you had to figure alittle bit out for your self then give them the points with a "B"

If an expert gives you a little bit of information that leads you to the correct answer, but requires you to do a lot of research your self, then give them the points with a "C".

If no one helps you get the answer in any way, or you figure out the answer and are the first one to post a comment with the answer, then you can close the question and get your points refunded.

In this case jeninbrighton posted the correct answer before you did, so it would be courteous for you to  give them the points even though you may have already figured it out on your own but forgot to wrap this question up when you figured it out.

 

by: krugar77Posted on 2008-03-14 at 08:00:05ID: 21126136

Easy enough. Thanks for the advice.

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