Help installing the Verity Plugin

[Hoolahawk]

Hi,

I am finding it hard because of the lack of documentation regarding FC
5. I am willing to help out in that regard in updating the content.

I am looking for help installing the Verity Plugin (I gather that you
have to do this for search capabilities?) Anyway the instructions on
this page...http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Verity

don't seem to make any sense to me, and I can not find any of the
suggest files in the instructions to update. I am coming from FC 3.01
and only intermediate at CF programming.

Can anyone give me a hand in how I can install this plugin, it would
be much appreciate. Even installing any plugin for that matter.

Cheers

David.

[Hoolahawk]

I using FC 5.0.0

Cheers

[AJ Mercer]

Hi David,

lets start from the top

Have you created a project?
Once you have installed a project you will get a new folder in farcry\projects\
This is where all the files that mentioned in the documentation refer to

You have downloaded the verity plug
You have put it in the plugin directory -> farcry\plugins\farcryverity

Get back to me on these questions
and we will see if we can narrow down were you problem is

--

AJ Mercer
Web Log: http://webonix.net

[Hoolahawk]

Hi AJ Mercer,

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your help.

Q1: Have you created a project?

A1: Yes


Q2: Once you have installed a project you will get a new folder in

farcry\projects\
This is where all the files that mentioned in the documentation
refer to

A2: Found the new folder under farcry\projects\


Q3: You have downloaded the verity plug

A3: I downloaded the files from the following link:
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/modius/farcry/plugins/farcryverity/trunk


Q4: You have put it in the plugin directory -> farcry\plugins
\farcryverity

A4: Yes


Kind Regards

David

[AJ Mercer]

which files cant you find?

[Hoolahawk]

Oh sorry...

It was the ./www/Application.cfm specified in the instructions.

But I believe after doing some reading on some other plugin's, that
for FC 5 you have to add farcryverity to your plugin list in the
farcryConstructor.cfm file of your project's webroot? This is in place
of putting it into the Application.cfm file?

Not sure what to do after this? I think that you have to make some
changes in the ./config/_serverSpecificVars.cfm template of
farcryverity plugin?

After you have made the changes will it just apprear in the admin
area?

Cheers

David

[AJ Mercer]

arhh, it seams like you are correct

http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Picnik
This have v4 and v5 instructions

This page needs updating then
    http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Verity

Fancy updating the wiki??

If you don't mind, could you at least post what you did to this thread?

[Hoolahawk]

Yeah no problem I would be happy to update the Wiki, I will get it
done this weekend.

Although I am still not sure what changes have to be made in the ./
config/_serverSpecificVars.cfm template or how to get it to install
into the admin area.

Cheers

David

[AJ Mercer]

once Farcry pics up the new plugin
it will do all the creation the webtop stuff

In farcry 4 you have to go into the COAPI and deploy the verity types
I think this will be the case in v5 as well

This is what I have in _serverSpecificVars.cfm

    <cfcase value="dell6000 ">
    <!--- set verity plugin config --->
<cfset application.stplugins.farcryverity.storagePath="E:\websites\webonix.net\farcry\projects\kas\verity\collections" />
<cfset application.stplugins.farcryverity.lhosts = machinename />
    </cfcase>

where dell6000 is the hostname of my server (well notebook running as a server)

[modius]

On Jul 11, 11:18 am, Hoolahawk <hoolah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah no problem I would be happy to update the Wiki, I will get it
> done this weekend.
>
> Although I am still not sure what changes have to be made in the ./
> config/_serverSpecificVars.cfm template or how to get it to install
> into the admin area.

The Verity plugin is not officially released for 5.0 -- hence the
issues you're facing. You should be able to get it running with a
modicum of fuss but unfortunately you're only guide is probably a
working 5.0 plugin. That said, we should be releasing a v2.0 Verity
plugin that is revamped for 5.0 and includes its own configurator and
so on in the next couple of weeks.

Apologies for the delay, but we're steadily working through these
things for the community -- as always, paying clients are a priority
and every wants to be on 5.0 ;)

All the best,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

[Hoolahawk]

I was able to get the verity plugin installed and it is now appearing
in the admin. I created a collection for dmHTML, but when I searched
using the search form on the home page I get the following error.

Element CONFIG.VERITY.AINDICES is undefined in APPLICATION.

Any thoughts.

Thanks Geoff for you reply. I understand you are all working hard and
I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I wish my work would
spring for some dough for support from Daemon but we have had budget
cuts.

How do you uninstall a plugin once you have it is installed?

Should I still update the Wiki page (I am happy to do so) or should
this wait until you have released the new version?

Cheers

David

[AJ Mercer]

In the verity plugin admin, there is a test search in the Search Utilities section.

Try your search there
if it works, you can then see what that does, then implement that into your project


Geoff posted that this search has (or will be) removed from the mollio project

[AJ Mercer]

In the verity plugin admin, there is a test search in the Search Utilities section.

Try your search there
if it works, you can then see what that does, then implement that into your project


Geoff posted that this search has (or will be) removed from the mollio project

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Hoolahawk <hool...@gmail.com> wrote:

[AJ Mercer]

The verity plugin comes with it's own Include

So, theoretically, all you should have to do is edit the search object (under the utilty on the site tree) and change it to use the plugin include.

I edited mine just to ensure I was picking up the correct one
farcry\plugins\farcryverity\includedObj\_search.cfm
<!--- @@displayname: Verity Plugin Search Results Page --->

[AJ Mercer]

oh man, I wend and tagged the wrong file.

So I now have them tagged correctly, but I can not see the the verity plugin webskin
This is because project takes precidence over plugins

So I renamed the project _search.cfm (updatedapp=1)
and then I can select the plugin search

And it works :-)

However, this is the form from the verity plugin admin,
so it would probable be best to copy the plugin include files to your project and then tweak the forms / interface to suit your project.