Improvements to the forum search

I often need to search for hints on the jdeveloper forum.
I would like to suggest some improvement to the forum search
1) when i search with more than one word i would like to see only the results in which all the words appear, or at least to see first the results with all words and then the others
2) in the search results every thread should appear only one time, in my opinion
Thanks, Mauro

Very embarrassing, the search tool is right here in front of my eyes.

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Logical AND not working in the forum search box

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
in the search box. I get a lot of hits. So now I try to reduce the number of hits by typing
subproject AND read
Surprisingly, I now get MORE hits than before. The same thing happens if I enter
subproject & read
Do the MSDN forums not support the standard logical AND combinations of search terms? If they do support these combinations, what is the syntax?
Jim
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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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How can we turn off auto-correction in the forum search?

This recent auto-correction in the forum search is driving me nuts. It is way too overzealous. There is no way to win the fight!
Example:
Try to search for "voight" (the famous lineshape).
It seaches for "right" instead
There is a small link to actually search for "voight" so we press that.
So far so good.
Now I want to limit searching for only my posts, so I enter "altenbach" on the left.
Now the search term switches back to "right" .... grrrrr!!!!! (see video)
Again, there is a small link to actually search for "voight" so we press that. (see video)
Now we are back to #5, because the "by altenbach" has disappeared again. (see video)
Repeat steps 5..8 forever. No escape to get what we actually want.
In the video you see how the "by altenbach" disappears once we click on "search instead for voight".
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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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Is the forum search broken?

Even tried searching on "Solaris" with no results.

Yes, I think you are right. It looks like the box that says "Forum Search" sends you into a search function for other Sun documents, but doesn't actually search the forums.
(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)

Where did the Forums Search function go???

Hi All,
I can't find the search function in SDN forums anymore, where is it?
I'm wondering if i'm the only one or if it has been moved and i'm just too stupid to find it....
Thanks
MK

refer to this thread How to search in SAP forums??
another way is use Google and place site:forums.sdn.sap.com before your text
regards
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Bug in the forum search area

Hi,
I tried searching on the "CFML-General Discussion"forum. when
you do , you get a error, please check it. :)
"Variable FTVAR_RESULTTYPE is undefined"
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/searchresults.cfm
Thanx

Long ago I concluded that the search function in these forums
was generally useless so I have no reason to try.

Narrow down the forum search function

Is it possible to use the built in search function but to limit the search to a certain forum or space?

It does to some extend. Though I was looking for a way to limit the search by spaces, not to filter the search result. For instance to search for ASM, but to exclude the ASM group or space. I think it was nice to be able to select or choose from a list of space names, and to be able to restrict the search using multiple "spaces".

Is the forum search engine broken?

Is it just me or is the search engine in this forum broken? I have tried to search for "Java","System","PrintService" etc. I everytime I get 0 results...

"Broken"? No. "Not very good"? That's a fair description.
Maybe the problem is your search. Have you tried different combinations?
Take "Java" out of the search. This IS a Java forum, after all.
What does "PrintService" bring back on its own?

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 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 find message but Google does

The forum-search query "icc profiles ilford paper", with the forum "Photoshop Elements" selected, does not find the following message:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1520276#1520276
Re: ICC Profiles
I just purchased some ILFORD paper and I downloaded and installed the ICC profile into Windows Vista without any problems. My question is when I open my printer properties and select a paper profile my ILFORD ICC profile is not showing. I have a Canon Pro9000 printer.
However, this Google query does:
icc profiles ilford paper photoshop elements site:forums.adobe.com
Sigh, in general I'm finding it faster and more reliable to use Google to search not only Adobe forums, but the knowledge base and the rest of the Adobe site as well.
Also, the message above is definitely indexed by the forum search engine, since you can retrieve it using the following query:
subject:"icc profiles" ilford paper
Of course, at the time I was searching, I didn't know which keywords were in the subject and which were in the body.

And this suprises who? Never had much luck with the Adobe search, either in old or new forum.

Forum search function broken

Not sure if this the best place for this observation,
but the forum search hasn't worked for me for almost a week.

Go to the forum discussion page and read all the messages about functions that don't work
http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments

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
both will point to the SQL Developer portal
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"
I tried it on my other computer and had the same issue. Could some verify if this is a user specific issue or if there is a glitch on the forum?
Last edited by otacon (2011-04-07 14:54:22)

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".

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