white whale
Active member
doesn't seem to be allowed. Would be useful.
can we search our own content?
- Thread starter white whale
- Start date
white whale
Active member
Was thinking more searching WITHIN my content. A general search query will give options for EVERYWHERE, THIS THREAD, THIS FORUM.. but if you are in your profile with MY CONTENT those options go away. If I posted something before on X , I can only search for X along with ALL the others posts / posters on X.
Maybe my memory is not as good as others, i see others answering a question with links to their previous posts. Some have thousands of posts - they would have to scroll through those manually then?
Maybe my memory is not as good as others, i see others answering a question with links to their previous posts. Some have thousands of posts - they would have to scroll through those manually then?
autostaretx
Erratic Member
Up at the top are (effectively) three or four lines of choices.
On the 2nd line, we've got "New Posts", "Find Threads", Watched" and "Search Forums" (and "Mark Forums Read"),
If you click "Search Forums", you get (effectively) the old "Advanced Search"
Put your keywords in the first line, and your username in the "posted by" field.
Seems to work for me (during a quick test).
--dick
On the 2nd line, we've got "New Posts", "Find Threads", Watched" and "Search Forums" (and "Mark Forums Read"),
If you click "Search Forums", you get (effectively) the old "Advanced Search"
Put your keywords in the first line, and your username in the "posted by" field.
Seems to work for me (during a quick test).
--dick
autostaretx
Erratic Member
white whale
Active member
Two solid options - Star and Chey. Just checked on last post i did , using the SEARCH FORUMS , you have to " the words" separately or you got a NO RESULT. My subject had plastic and bumper in the title, but unless I did the keywords as "plastic" "bumper" with the " " no results came back.
autostaretx
Erratic Member
I'm confused: do you mean you had to quote the individual words:
(with an intervening space)
or that the two words simply had to be separated
(with an intervening space)
or what?
And, for that matter, what were you trying that *didn't* work?
--dick
Code:
"plastic" "bumper"or that the two words simply had to be separated
Code:
plastic bumperor what?
And, for that matter, what were you trying that *didn't* work?
--dick
white whale
Active member
I typed ----- plastic bumper ----- = no results, "plastic" "bumper" = correct results with all of my posts that those words in the subject or body.
I have seen search parameters where you do have to include + signs or quotes.
I have seen search parameters where you do have to include + signs or quotes.
autostaretx
Erratic Member
Very strange ... (i.e. our mileage seems to differ)
If i use the "simple search" and put in "march lion" (without quotes) and tick "titles only"
... it "does the right/expected thing". Coughs up one thread with three words highlighted (lion appears twice).
BUT ... still in simple search, if i add my name as "By:", i get zero hits (i didn't initiate the thread)
If i surround each search word with quotes, i get the same thing: zilch.
If i do NOT use quotes and do NOT select "titles only" (but leave the "By: me"), i get two hits (one each in two threads).
... the thread that didn't have the two words in the title had the two words in the body of the text.
...the 2nd thread had the two words in the title, but (i think) only one word in the body of the text.
Sometimes confusing things is that there are two search systems being used by the Forum (one (mysql) may be an idle back-up).
What they accept as mark-up (the pluses, etc) and their behavior may (does) differ.
Since the Search function can be (is) implemented independent of the underlying Forum software, the Forum's Help doesn't offer any help regarding syntax.
I'll kick it around some more... (such as: apostrophes (or either accent character) instead of quotes.)
(source: https://xkcd.com/327/ )
--dick
p.s. for those who don't get it: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom
((although i can't guarantee that that will totally clear it up))
autostaretx
Erratic Member
New amusement ... if i quote "march" "lion", i get three hits ... the third one being *this* thread.
If i don't quote them, i don't see this thread.
(perhaps the engine sees the quotes i'm using in this thread as part of the string??)
--dick
If i don't quote them, i don't see this thread.
(perhaps the engine sees the quotes i'm using in this thread as part of the string??)
--dick