Forum Home Forum Home > Site News, Newbies, Help and Improvements > Internal news
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Forum search facilities
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedForum search facilities

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
Angelo View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: May 07 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 13244
Direct Link To This Post Topic: Forum search facilities
    Posted: November 12 2010 at 16:27
Over the past few weeks I noticed a couple of discussions where people mentioned that the forum search function is not very useful.

Here are three things that are good to know when searching for forum posts or discussions:

1) You can not search in post bodies, only in topic titles, so you will only find words mentioned in those.
2) if you use the forum search and want to look up fairly old posts, make sure you select 'Any date' under Find Posts, default you only get posts from the last 6 months
3) Why don't you use the Google search box on the main page for a change? In the selection box next to it, you can select between searching in the main site, the forums, or the whole internet. This one does find everything regardless of how old, and includes words in post bodies.

Happy searching!!!


Edited by Angelo - November 12 2010 at 16:30
ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected]
Back to Top
M@X View Drop Down
Forum & Site Admin Group
Forum & Site Admin Group
Avatar
Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster

Joined: January 29 2004
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 4028
Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2011 at 20:02
Thanks for this great piece of information I have enable Angelo !

I have re-enabled the SEARCH in MESSAGE BODY , let's hope the new server can handle this well.

Happy searching

M@X
Prog On !
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.156 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.