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".

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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
Mahesh

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).
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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 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

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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Why is the iphone search function spotlight limited in time?

why is the iphone search function spotlight limited in time? I can only find entries that are less than a year old,but I would like to search older entries in my calender, which goes back to 2002. Anyone has a solution for this?

Are you sure that your calendar still contains entries from that long ago? Generally when you sync the iPhone through iTunes, it will only sync entries from a specific time frame. It may be there older entries have been archived and do not exist on the iPhone anymore. Other than that, I don't see any setting that allows modification to the time frame for Spotlight search.

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.

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.
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How to get the Wiki search functionality working?

hi,
Another Wiki question regarding the 7.1u1 Portal wiki functionality: What is necessary to get the wiki search functionality working? Right now when using the wiki search page all it does is return to the search form, no errors but no hits either. I guess some additional administrative work is needed to get search working?
thanks, tom

haven't touched anything except for the wiki template jsps to change the design. it is a linux rh4 install. there are no communities on that server (yet), just the wiki portlet in a tab so far. is the wiki search dependent on the portal search server or totally separate (ie self contained wiki search)? any additional services or such that need to be started for it to work?

Please tell me exactly how to remove the AVG search function

Please tell me exactly how to remove the AVG search function
''edited by a moderator for clarity''

You don't need to repeat yourself dozens of time or use profanity to get help here.
(1) Disable ALL nonessential or unrecognized extensions on this tab. Not sure what it does? If in doubt, disable:
orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > Extensions category
Use of the links above a disabled extension to restart Firefox if any appear.
(2) Reset your search providers to Google:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/
(3) Check for a user.js file (do this before exiting Firefox, otherwise the settings in that file can undo your cleanup) as described in this article: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]].
(4) If AVG search took over your new tab page (Ctrl+t), change that as follows:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(B) In the filter box, type or paste '''newtab''' and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the '''browser.newtab.url''' preference and enter the desired value for your preferred page:
''(i) Page thumbnails (default)'' => about:newtab
''(ii) Blank tab'' => about:blank
''(iii) Built-in Firefox home page'' => about:home
''(iv) Any other page'' => full URL to the page
IMPORTANT: If you have AVG software in your Windows Control Panel, you may also need to remove it there.

HT1947 What happened to the keyboard search function on the remote app?

What happened to the keyboard search function on the remote app? Was the only thing that really made it useful.

I am having the same issue. I can see a dimmed keyboard icon on the top right of screen, but cannot access the keyboard to enter information for Apple TV 2. Is anyone else having the same issue and are there any solutions to fix the problem?

Best way to handle a email subscription and narrow down the emails.

We are using SCOM 2012 SP1 and have everything updated to UR5.
We have 2 groups defined. Machines with names starting with Corp- and Prod-. We have a subscription to notify on errors with this group. We get many different alerts that are not necessarily important with
this subscription so we want to narrow down the focus.
We would like to use these two groups but only send out notifications when certain types of events happen like
CPU utilization is too high or logical disk space on C: drive is low (dont care as much about D: or E: etc).
Is there a way to do this with criteria set to specific rules or monitors?
Thanks Lance

1) In the 'Subscription' Page there is a criteria "created by specific rules or monitors', use that.
Get the rules/monitors that generate disk space and other alerts that you want and select them in the above mentioned criteria.
2) to identify from email weather its for a CORP or PROD server, go to Channels tab and create two email notification channels one for each corp and prod. from the 'Format' page , just add "CORP:" and "PROD:" in the beginning of the "E-mail subject:"
option.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, S K Agrawal

Where's the Contact search function?!

I updated my iPhone to 2.02 already, but can't find where's the contact search function.

Allan Sampson wrote:
To quickly move to the top of your contact list, tap on the menu bar for lack of a better term.
Doesn't work for me. Had to revert to ordinary finger-scrolling.

Typing in LOV 'find' and narrow down the list by second column

Hi,
Does anybody know how to narrow down the LOV list by 'Find' to let system look up the second column instead of the the first one?

Hi,
I think there is no way in forms to do this, coz The "find in LOV" is applicable only for the first lov column.
There is a workaround: Try to bild a queryeable multi-block pop up module which could be invoked when you enter the lov field.
Hope that helps,
CB

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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