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3rd Mar 2022, 8:03 pm | #1 |
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Forum Search Facility - anomaly
I have just been looking for a recent thread that I posted in - I remembered that I used the words 'pick-up' and 'stylus' in my post so I thought I'd search with 'pick-up'.
It didn't find it. So I tried with 'stylus' and again it didn't find it. I did find the thread this one, and the two words are indeed there. I tried the search facility to find another thread with a known word, and it worked! The difference was, the test search applied to a closed thread, whereas the thread I wanted to find is a still-open thread. I've used the quick search, 'show threads' button activated (the default one) each time - I looked in the 'Advanced' options to see if there's an open/closed/both option, but there isn't - and Search is finding only closed threads. Has something changed? |
3rd Mar 2022, 8:28 pm | #2 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
Were you using the 'Google Custom Search' textbox at the top of the forum, or the built-in vBulletin search function? The latter is known to be flaky.
Nothing should have changed. This will be investigated. |
3rd Mar 2022, 9:23 pm | #3 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
No, the vbulletin search (the tab between 'new posts' and 'quick links' tabs).
Thanks! |
4th Mar 2022, 10:11 am | #4 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
There does seem to be something odd going on there.
With the default options or just searching form the dropdown it seems to only find closed and sticky threads. Searching on thread titles works correctly, and showing results as posts not threads also seems to work. I don't think it is specifically searching for closed ones though, it seems to need the word to be in the first post or in a post by the thread starter. It is odd because the code hasn't changed. I will take a look at this over the weekend. For now try the different options or use the Google search. |
4th Mar 2022, 11:19 am | #5 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
OK! Thanks Paul, and for confirming that it is a real 'funny.' I did tests as described (both on smartphone and on desktop PC) before posting, but it's good all the same to know it's not me or my systems.
I've used Search satisfactorily in the past, so I'll watch with interest! |
4th Mar 2022, 12:23 pm | #6 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
Try it now. "stylus" seems to give the expected results now.
EDIT: I'm surprised it worked as well as it did before as there was some fairly poor SQL queries that would not have given consistent accurate results on searches with over the 500 maximum results. |
8th Mar 2022, 7:30 pm | #7 |
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Re: Forum Search Facility - anomaly
Yes, it's working as expected now Paul - Thanks!
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