Thank you both for your responses, I had thought this thread was a
dud. I'll read the reference at Pete's URL.
Andy: Yes, I comment out the title too, but I forgot the comment
markers in my post. This workaround sure does nullify some of the
benefit of the custom tag solution, though.
Thanks again,
Jamie
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:38:43 -0400, in cf-talk you wrote:
>One way I've tricked Verity into reading a title tag in an app where the headers,
>footers, and other parts of the page are dynamic, is to comment out the title. So
>just like you did, but:
>
><CF_customtag ...>
>
><!--- <title>TitleToAppearAtTopOfBrowser</title> --->
>
>Body contents go here.
>
></CF_customtag ...>
>
>
>Now you have a valid HTML page being sent back to the browser, but Verity will still
>pick out the title between comments. I only know that this works in all 4.x versions
>of ColdFusion; I haven't tested it with 5. I hope it does or I'm in trouble!
>
>Also, I use includes and set the page params before each instead of using custom tags
>for this, although the performance is negligible. Of course you'd have to test each
>method under load to be sure.
>
>If anyone has any better ways to accomplish this, I'd love to hear about them.
>
>
>-Andy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:38 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: My header/footer inclusion scheme hinders Verity searches!
>
>
>I like to use custom tags for header/footer inclusion, because it is
>easy and elegant for our non-CFers to use:
>-----
><cf_MyHeadFoot metaTitle="TitleToAppearAtTopOfBrowser"
> pageTitle="TitleToAppearInHTML"
> metaDescription="DescriptionToGoInDescriptionMetaTag"
> metaKeywords="KeywordsToGoInDescriptionMetaTag">
>
>Body contents go here.
>
></cf_MyHeadFoot>
>-----
>
>However, if you want to use Verity to search the site, you lose the
>page titles, since Verity extracts titles from the
><head><title>Title</title></head> HTML code.
>
>There is a workaround, which almost defeats the easiness and elegance
>of the custom tag:
>-----
><cf_MyHeadFoot metaTitle="TitleToAppearAtTopOfBrowser"
> pageTitle="TitleToAppearInHTML"
> metaDescription="DescriptionToGoInDescriptionMetaTag"
> metaKeywords="KeywordsToGoInDescriptionMetaTag">
><title>TitleToAppearAtTopOfBrowser</title> <--HERE'S THE WORKAROUND
>Body contents go here.
>
></cf_MyHeadFoot>
>-----
>
>Is there a better way? Is there a way to hack Verity to understand
>that my "metaTitle" attribute is an alternate source of the document
>title? Is Verity not the way to go? Any ideas whatsoever? :)
>
>Thanks,
>Jamie
>
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