Forum Search could be better

When you search for a keyword in the forum it seems to be searching each posting rather than each discussion thread. This can be very inconvenient if 20 search results point to the same discussion thread or page.
I hope this gets corrected.
Thanks.

Bill,
Actually, it is sometimes possible to get to the thread URL in another way, but I am afraid it is no less silly.
1) Make the search (Ask the Question) and get to wherever in the thread;
2) Go to the top (if needed) and Click [the OP], then click [the OP]'s Stuff and see whether the thread is still in the list without Re: at the start.
That will give the thread URL (without the ?tstart=0, though), as in this case http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1405227, which is viable in itself; you may add the ?tstart=0.
I just made it before it went off the list.

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Forum Search Function - A Question

I know that the Adobe Forum team has worked hard over the last year, to improve the forums' Search Function. The standardization across the various forums, the utility of Search, HAS been improved - thank you for that work.
However, once, after one ran a Search, and received a results page, it was possible to go thread-by-thread in those results, to pick the one, ones, that worked for an OP's situation, and by just using the browser's Back button, the searcher was taken back to the Search results page, for more research. Now, the Back button takes me (Chrome on Windows PC) to the general Discussions page, and not the Search results page. This means that the Search criteria have to be re-added. At first, it would seem that Copy/Paste for the Search criteria would be the best workflow, and just re-do that Search, over and over, reading one thread per Search. However, I use Search most often to help posters get answers, and I use the URL to the existing threads to do that. Here is an example of how I use Search, and how it works for me now - the current Search:
Poster has a question, and many other threads in a forum answer that/those question(s). I find six existing threads, that match my Search criteria. Good so far. I then need to read all six threads, to find the one(s), that are best for the new poster. When I find one, I Copy the URL of that thread, and add that to my Reply to that poster. I cannot Copy the Search criteria, to use in the Search query box, as I just Copied the URL to one thread in the list. I then have to go back to the main Discussions page, and re-initiate my Search, to read the second of the six threads - rather tedious, especially with more than one useful thread.
My workaround now, is to create a NotePad document with my Search criteria, and go back to it, Copying and Pasting those characters, after doing a Copy/Paste of a threads URL. Still tedious, but less typing.
Not sure if the old method, or using Back to get to the Search results page, could be re-implemented, leaving the rest of the Search functions untouched, or if someone knows a neat way to return to the Search results page, that I just am not aware of (do not mind admitting OE on my part, and am open to perhaps a better workflow, for how I normally use Search).
Hunt

Jacob, unfortunately and although true, that doesn't agree with the image "normal" users get, with those unnecessarily brightly colored badges, and even more unnecessary special backgrounds in their posts, no matter how trivial (and I am not in the least questioning their most legitimate right to post trivial messages)... Their word doesn't become the Bible by the mere fact of being punished with their MVP titles, as the highlighting of their posts seems to suggest.
And yes, I know that -at least- many of you haven't chosen to be nominated as MVPs but, what does the general public think? Most probably, that you all have full moderating powers, and some other powers as well. A sad, artificial, and most unneeded situation -most definitely not an improvement.

Forum search doesn't work properly

try this:
in the JDeveloper forum search on JBO-25046. you will NOT find any hits. Same if you just search on 25046.
Search on jbo-25046 and you will find thousands of hits referencing jbo without a number.
search on RowNotAvailableException (the actual exception which accompanies JBO-25046) and you will find many posts with JBO-25046 in the subject of the post as well as the body.
when i first started using the forums i found them almost completely useless because it would return any page with any of my search words in it, not even give me the results with most of my search words in first.
once i dug around for a bit, i found that you could do boolean searches using AND in caps. this seemed to to work ok aside from the fact that the search also seems to search for and hilite the word AND throughout the search results.
please put some intellegence into your forum search engine so that forum users can actually find things and benefit from the huge amount of knowelege available there.
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No,Its working fine.
Can you tell what's the problem that you have faced ?
Regards,
Gautham.

Forum Search - no indication if the thread is solved

Hi,
It would be quite useful to have some kind of indication if the thread is already solved in the Forum Search page.
If there is long result list, it's difficult to see, which post is useful.
Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
until then you could use the filter that is part of every sub-forum start page. It allows you to filter for "Open Questions", "Answered Questions" and "Questions with no reply".
Regards,
Michael

Forum Search Tool - SQL Developer - Wrong location?

In the Forum Search - Category or Forum, the SQL Developer appears in Database division.
I think he should appear in the Developers Tools division....

Another way of getting to the correct forum is to use a feature's portal. Might be helpful to know that route when unsure of which forum.
For example, in this case you could
start at Oracle Technet homepage portal
go to either
- Database product portal OR
- Developer tools portal
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which points to the SQL Developer
This is simply to indicate that there are several different, legitimate, paths to a forum - including through the Dev Tools as well as through the Database area.
My point being that no matter where we put the forum, basic taxonomy principals indicate that someone will have a legitimate argument to move it somewhere else. Thus fulfilling the basic human need to require politics in any and every area of existence. <g>

[Solved] Forum Search

This could possibly be a DNS issue, but when I type 5 word or more in to the forum search box I get an "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Page"
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jac wrote:
community/arch-firefox-search 0.8-1
Firefox Arch search engines (AUR, Pkgs, BBS, Wiki, etc.)
Thanks but as I wrote I was more interested in using DuckDuckGo.com to perform the search in order to avoid the 30 seconds delay between searches. That, and the arch-firefox-search package doesn't show up in my firefox3 (installed from the AUR.)
The "Mycroft Project" site has search engine plugins for both IE and Firefox (and other web browsers), and you can also create new ones there.
Here is the list of search engine plugins for the Arch Linux forums.
The second one uses Google for searching the Arch forums and should work with IE.
The third one is the one I just made; it lets you search the Arch forums with DuckDuckGo, but will probably not work with IE because I selected the "POST" method instead of "GET".

Forum search bar anomaly

I have noticed that the forum search bar renders rather oddly in Safari 4:
The search bar renders correctly in Camino and Firefox as shown below:
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I'm guessing that the Safari problems are related to its use of WebKit
No. OmniWeb uses WebKit, too, and the search box looks better in OmniWeb than it does in Mozilla browsers (because it rounds the corners of the input field rather than leaving them squared off).
This issue is specific to Safari 4, from what I can see, and it began with the first beta release.

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Even tried searching on "Solaris" with no results.

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(BTW, I can see that they might exclude Solaris from the search since it would appear in a gazillion Sun documents -- but I tried searching for a couple of specific terms that I could see in messages, which seemed unlikely to be stop words, and got no results or only results from outside the forum)

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Logical AND of search terms does not seem to be working in the MSDN forum search box. Example: I go to the Project Customization and Program forum and type the word
subproject
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Jim
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Cheers, you're welcome.
There's a thread going in the Suggestions forum with plenty more requests for updates to the search tool. You may want to add your voice there too:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
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Forum search doesn't find message but Google does

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Also, the message above is definitely indexed by the forum search engine, since you can retrieve it using the following query:
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Some of my thread doesn't show in "Forum Search" engine

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Daily Edition 950 - Image Zoom Could be Better

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Forum search broken!

Please see this thread in the JDeveloper forum:
Forum search broken?
For some user it works, for others not. Sure doesn't work for me.
Searching in the JDeveloper forum for "RowSetIterator" or "ViewObject" simply must return tons of results. It doesn't for me.
And when I go to my profile and search for all my messages I also get nothing.
Sascha

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Forum search broken?
For some user it works, for others not. Sure doesn't work for me.
Searching in the JDeveloper forum for "RowSetIterator" or "ViewObject" simply must return tons of results. It doesn't for me.
And when I go to my profile and search for all my messages I also get nothing.
Sascha

Make the Forum Search Tool useful

The current Forum Search Tool is nearly useless. Please add the following features to make it a functional tool:
1. Logical operators - i.e. allow the following searches: cow AND chicken, cow OR chicken, cow NOT chicken (or -chicken)
2. Quoted text to search for exact phrases - i.e. allow the following search: "my chicken says moo"
3. Results with date ranges - i.e. allow the following search: weird chicken, Results before 04/01/2012 or after 04/01/10 or between 04/01/2010 and 04/01/2012
4. Mix it up! "My chicken says moo" AND "purple chicken feed" -cow, results after 12/23/2012
5. Search in one forum only - i.e. allow the following search: "chicken says moo" ONLY in the "Farm Animal Behavior" forum
6. Search ONLY in posts (answers and/or questions) made by a particular user - i.e. allow the following search - "purple chicken feed" posted by user "Farmer Brown" ONLY
7. Do NOT include variations of words that you "think" might be "helpful". Right now a search for the word "running" yields results that contain the following words: running, run, runs. Weeding through all the useless
"helpful" results is a huge waste of time and makes it difficult in the extreme to actually find "relevant" results. HINT: There might be an actual REASON why we want to search for "running" and
NOT "run" or "runs".
8. Please make the default operator AND instead of OR when more than one search word is used. Adding more terms to a search tool should produce FEWER, MORE REFINED RESULTS instead of MORE, IRRELEVANT RESULTS. Very few people ever want
to search on a single word only. This is especially true in a technical reference environment!
9. Sometimes I WANT a word spelled exactly as I typed it. If I get results that I do not want because I misspelled a word, I can just retype the search. If you FORCE me to use your spelling, this makes my search completely useless. Please
give us MORE options rather than less!
10. Remove search result highlighting. We don't need the words we just searched for being blasted at us in highlighted bold.
NOTE: If there are any other requests for the search tool, post them as replies and I'll add them to this list.
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Hi,
i have posted many question but now i want to search a particular post by searching this forum but i found search is not finding in my thread rather it is searching keyword in all thread. so guide me how to search my posted question only in this
forum? who can help. please develop a powerful search for msdn forum. thanks
Searching in one forum is currently possible, you just need to make sure that you only have a single forum selected in the left rail:
This walkthrough is a bit out of date now, but it should still be helpful for selecting only a single forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18107.msdntechnet-forums-how-to-view-a-single-forum.aspx
PS - I posted this same information (without the screenshot and FAQ link though) in
your thread.
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