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qwerty

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Forum search not working
« on: January 23, 2016, 12:14:18 am »
I'm currently relocating the links I saved from the old forum and as already told I was not able to find most of them back. Now with the old links enabled I have a chance. But the search does not seem to work. What I discovered is that typing a word in the search text made an auto-completion (I had filled in the author before). I'm just guessing that there's some Java script running for that?! Anyhow, when clicking the search button I get no results at all. So far I was able to find back 10% (at best) by repeating the old threat title. 90% gave me zero results.

At the worst case I need to go back to where the thread was started in the forum to find it. Luckily with reducing the title to one word plus the author I got most of them so far.

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P.S. Probably the auto-completion in the text is not due to a Java script communicating with the Sparx server but due to a history stored in Safari (because I already use the search term unsuccessfully in the past).

P.P.S. the former highlight is no longer visible (e.g. http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,23590.msg194214.html#msg194214)

P.P.S. on a side note: the time stamps were mangled. Eg. http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,5375.msg124644.html vs http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1383056444/0#6. This thread is one of those you will not find by entering the title in the search.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2016, 12:36:41 am by qwerty »

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Re: Forum search not working
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2016, 12:31:09 am »
I think the search ignores the subjects and searches only in the contents of the messages.

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Re: Forum search not working
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2016, 12:38:34 am »
It would be even faster if it also would ignore the content  :P

Why would anybody have the idea to search for the title. Of course the title does not belong to the text inside :-X

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