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Farmer Girl 05-29-2010 04:19 AM

Thanks! Like the way this works.

dsb38327 05-29-2010 05:24 AM

This is a winner! Thank-you Admin.
I tested each of the features you noted and each was user friendly and successful.
In addition,
If nothing is entered in the topic field, I got no search results eventhough a user id was put in the advanced options field.
As a bonus, the topic field is searching by 'Title and/or content' word 'to the letter'. (Changes the search results using the singular and the plural of a word.)
As an example:
dsb38327. (the word) All (in the topic field) shows all of the post I have created.
dsb38327. (the word) sun (in the topic field) shows the one post I made that has the word 'sun' in it.
dsb38327. (the word) sunshine (in the topic field) shows my posts that have the word 'sunshine' in them.
This worked as well using lostn51/thunderstorm & thunderstorms.
Thunderstorm:
Hypothermia can set in just getting caught in a freak summer thunderstorm.
Thunderstorms:
Severe Storms and Tornadoes are Here Tonite!!

Boston1954 05-29-2010 06:35 AM

Gee this works great! Thanks so much.

kathy 05-29-2010 06:46 AM

way easier!

craftybear 05-29-2010 06:48 AM

awesome, thanks a million

Eddie 05-29-2010 07:00 AM

Wow! :shock: This is excellent! It makes searching for things SO much easier by not having to wade through so much to find something. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! :D

Admin 05-29-2010 07:03 AM


If nothing is entered in the topic field, I got no search results eventhough a user id was put in the advanced options field.
Yep. That's a limitation. If you need to list all threads started by some user, then you would have to go to her profile and click on the topic list link.

Search is performed using a separate index (not he main database), so simply iterating over threads without any keywords wouldn't work.


dsb38327. (the word) All (in the topic field) shows all of the post I have created.
Actually, that's not the case. It might look that way because the word "all" is rather common.

So chances are a lot of threads contain it at least once.

When you limit the listing to just one particular user and search for a common word, it might appear like all threads are returned. But if there is a thread that doesn't contain that specific word, you won't see it listed. At least you shouldn't.

If you actually find such example, then please let me know. I would be interested in seeing it.

There is a list of stop words that don't get indexed, such as "the". But "all" is not a stop word, yet it's used frequently enough to cause what you are seeing.

craftybear 05-29-2010 07:03 AM

awesome, thanks a million Admin.!!!!


Originally Posted by Eddie
Wow! :shock: This is excellent! It makes searching for things SO much easier by not having to wade through so much to find something. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! :D


littlehud 05-29-2010 06:25 PM

Thank you so much.


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