Using the Verity browse Utility

A documents table is built for each partition in a collection. The documents table is used for field searching and for sorting search results. The fields within the documents table are defined by the following collection style files:

style.ddd defines fields used internally by the Verity engine, identified by an initial underscore character (_)
style.sfl defines standard fields (many of which are commented out to limit the size of the documents table)
style.ufl defines custom fields that are not included in style.sfl

The value of each field can be filled in from source documents or can be provided explicitly. If a field is blank, it has not been populated.

browse can be found in the ColdFusion bin directory:

cfusion\bin (Windows)
opt/coldfusion/verity/<platform>/bin (UNIX), where <platform> is _ssol26, _hpux11, or _ilnx21

For example:

c:\cfusion\bin\browse /common = c:\cfusion\verity\common

  c:\new\parts\0000001.ddd

Using menu options with the browse utility

Use the following browse command to start the utility and display a set of menu options:

browse 00000003.ddd

The system displays the following menu of options available for the browse utility.

D:\VERITY\colltest\parts>browse 00000003.ddd

BROWSE OPTIONS

?) help

q) quit

c) Number of entries in field

_) Toggle viewing fields beginning with '_'

v) Toggle viewing selected fields

##) Display all fields in specified record number

Dispatch/Compound field options:

n) No dispatch

d) Dispatch

s) Dispatch as stream

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Using browse

Displaying fields

There are several options that can be used to control the display of field information. To display all the document fields, follow these steps:

At the Action prompt, enter ##
Press return 2 times to display the fields for the first document record
Press return to view the document fields for the next sequential record

The following partial display of the results of the browse command includes internal fields, used by the Verity search engine. An internal field name starts with an underscore (_) character.

50 Created              FIX-date ( 4) = 12-Jan-1998 01:52:27 pm

51 Modified             FIX-date ( 4) = 24-Sep-1997 02:40:26 pm

52 Size                 FIX-unsg ( 4) = 5381

53 DOC_OF               FIX-unsg ( 4) = 0

54 DOC_SZ               FIX-unsg ( 4) = 4294967295

55 DOC_FN_OF            FIX-unsg ( 4) = 436

56 DOC_FN_SZ            FIX-unsg ( 2) = 58

57 _CACHE_FN_OF         FIX-unsg ( 4) = 2922

58 _CACHE_FN_SZ         FIX-unsg ( 2) = 0

59 _ParentID_OF         FIX-unsg ( 4) = 354

60 _ParentID_SZ         FIX-unsg ( 2) = 46

61 Title_OF             FIX-unsg ( 4) = 2481

62 Title_SZ             FIX-unsg ( 2) = 15

You can eliminate the internal fields. To do this, type the underscore character, then press return. If you enter an underscore character again then press return, the internal fields will be displayed.

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