Part I describes what can comprise a Verity collection and how gateways are used to create collections.
Chapter 1, "Overview" describes overview information about Verity® collections and how to build them for your Verity product name application.
Chapter 2, "Using Gateways" describes gateway features and the File System gateway and HTTP gateway in detail.
Part II describes working with various collection style files to achieve certain desired effects.
Chapter 3, "Setting Policies" describes how you can customize the Verity engine's behavior by assigning an indexing mode or by defining what is included in the document hit count.
Chapter 5, "Index Tuning" describes how to customize collection indexes using optional style files.
Chapter 6, "Document Filters and Formatting" describes how to configure document filters to affect search engine operations, like indexing and displaying documents stored in a variety of native formats.
Part III describes special search features that are part of the zone filter.
Chapter 8, "The Zone Filter" describes how to enable zone searching through the use of the zone filter for: SMGL, HTML, internet-style e-mail messages, internet-style Usenet news articles.
Appendixes cover these subjects: examples of various style files, supported document types, supported date formats, supported languages, the syntax of regular expressions, building a custom thesaurus and basic collection troubleshooting and maintenance command-line tools.