Verity lets you organize your searchable documents into categories. Categories are groups of documents (or database tables) that you define, and then let users search within them. For example, if you wanted to create a search tool for a software company, you might create categories such as whitepapers, documentation, release notes, and marketing collateral. Users can then specify one or more categories in which to search for information. Thus, if users visiting the website wanted to learn about a conceptual aspect of your company's technology, they might restrict their search to the whitepaper and marketing categories.
Typically, you will want to provide users with pop-up menus or check boxes from which they can select categories to narrow their searches. Alternately, you might create a form that lets users enter both a category name in which to search, and search keywords.
category and categoryTree attributes appropriate to the collection.
For more information on indexing Verity collections with support for categories, see Indexing collections that contain categories.
Create a search page using the cfsearch tag that lets users more easily search for information by restricting searches to the specified category and, if specified, its hierarchical tree.
For more information on searching Verity collections with support for categories, see Searching collections that contain categories.