Contract work

[John C. Bland II]

I’m looking for a CF contractor. There is not a known framework in place, the code isn’t pretty [just being honesty] and there is pressure to meet the deadline. There isn’t a direct guarantee for the work but I’m going to push this client to replace their current dev as he is simply not cutting it.

Hit me up directly [not on the list] if you’re interested.

[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Good afternoon, folks.

I'm wondering if anyone have has problems with searching via <cfsearch>
and Soir on ColdFusion 11? One client I work for has about 1,000 PDF
files (some dozens pf pages long) indexed nightly. Daily, an average of
about 1,000 searches would be run through the collection, some just
single words, and some phrases, some using "or".  Sometimes, the Soir
search engine would slow down and get hung up, and occasionally we have
to bounce Coldfusion's Add-On service. We didn't have this kind of
problem when we were using Verity on an older version of ColdFusion. Is
Soir normally this flakey?

Also, are there any alternatives to Soir? What about Lucene... can it
index PDF files?

Thanks,
Angeli Wahlstedt

[Seth Bienek]

Hi Angeli,

Solr may just need a little tweaking.  Do you know why it's hanging, or when?  Is it during queries or indexing?  Anything interesting in the logs?  It may need more memory, or there could be an issue reading some files that you're indexing.  I'd check into the logs to see why Solr is struggling before undertaking a retrofit of the search engine, it might save you a lot of time and resources, and Solr is already one of the most popular enterprise search engines.

If you're certain you want to change search engines, you could (relatively) easily use any one with a java client library or web services/REST-based API.  Elasticsearch is popular.  It's based on Lucene just like Solr is though. :)

Hope this helps.

Take Care,

Seth

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[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Sorry, I should have been more clear in my original email. :-)  Indexing is no problem, but searches sometimes are a problem. A search would come back quickly, and the other times, it doesn't. According to the logs, threads would get stuck in a waiting state after executing the cfsearch statement. I think this happens if there are several people trying to run searches at the same time.

-- Angeli

[Mark Davis]

At a previous job, we moved from Lucerne to elasticsearch, which really well.  It did index the contents of PDFs and other files also.  Hope this helps

Mark

[Ahmed El-Rasheedy]

You may want to check how much memory is allocated to the JVM that is running the search service. You can increase the memory allocated in the config file (the maxheap size), which will alleviate some of the symptoms of the problem.

-Ahmed

[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Thanks, everyone who replied -- you all have been helpful. I'll try tweaking the memory size first before trying new search engines.

-- Angeli Wahlstedt

[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Thanks for help with my previous issue concerning Soir. Now I have
another question. People at my client's company were reporting odd
results with running Sor searches. For example, if you search on just
the word "accountability" (without operators or modifiers or anything),
you get documents that don't contain the word "accountability" but have
variants of the word such as "accountable", "account", et cetera. Is
there a way to turn off this feature? I've Googled on this but couldn't
find much but then again, I'm not sure what is the correct term to
Google on. I did find something about fuzzy logic, but not how to turn
that off.

Thanks,
Angeli

[Ahmed El-Rasheedy]

Try this link. I think it has a solution to the issue you are having

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2630879/solr-exact-word-search/5149493#5149493

[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Thanks, that was a very helpful link, and I've learned quite a bit. :-)

-- Angeli

[Angeli Wahlstedt]

Hiya, have anyone ever been able to create a shared Google spreadsheet
using Google Sheets API and ColdFusion? My client was asking me this and
I've done research on it but haven't found much. The premise is that the
client's website generates Excel spreadsheets for downloading by her
customers, and the client is wondering if the same thing can be done
with a shared Google Spreadsheet. This seems to have complications --
for example, the customers would need to be issued permissions to access
the shared spreadsheet, correct?

-- Angeli Wahsltedt

[Luis Majano]

Google, has a full Java API you can use very easily with CF.

https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/java

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