Using the 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 the style.sfl file.

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.

The browse utility executable, which starts the browse utility application, is located in the platform/bin directory. For more information on the specific location of this directory, see Location of Verity utilities.

For example:

c:\coldfusion9\verity\k2\_nti40\bin\browse /common = c:\coldfusion9\verity\k2\commonc:\my_collection\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 
Action (? for help):

    Displaying document fields

    You can use several options to control the display of document field information.

    1. At the Action prompt, enter ##

    2. Press Return twice to display the fields for the first document record.

    3. 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 by typing the underscore character and then pressing Return. If you enter an underscore character again, then press return, the internal fields are displayed.