Search Facility

[aladinliverpool]

Hi There.

 

I was wondering if CAG could improve the search facility.

 

I have been on the forums for some time and found that searching for info is pretty tiring. As the results display nothing for what ive searched on.

 

For example if i want to search for a particular phrase used in common Mackenzie Hall reply letters

 

"MOORCROFT BT" ""We have contacted our client for a copy"

 

the current search facility searches on every word in the search and displays the results for each word. Obviously the words with less than 2 letters is ignored. Your search result still doesnt go nowhere near the particular subject one is looking for.

 

So a search facility for all keywords contained within a "example" would be a great help.

[WebMaster]

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I thought there used to be an option when searching for 'exact phrase'. Certainly when I do a search on "MOORCROFT BT" ""We have contacted our client for a copy" it looks as if it's just searching on each word.

 

That said, the search above only produced 8 results, so it's not many to wade through.

 

I'll have a word with the mods, see if we can improve it

[aladinliverpool]

It is possible i believe.

 

They are only examples that i used.

 

I was particularly looking for Moorcroft Cases involving BT. Thats what im looking into at the moment. The problem being was the search was ignoring the BT aspect. As you can specify the minimum letters searched on in the administration panel of vbulletin.

 

Further to this it doesnt necessarily need exact phrase search right. Moreso search for the same words in a thread. Rather than search for each individual word in the entire forum.

 

Not one for teaching granny to suck eggs of course. I used to run a 3500 member clubbing forum using vbulletin as the backend. So know the pros and cons of forum management.

 

Thanks for the quick reply however!