Search functionality of forum

Dear Colleagues,
At the outset, my wishes to all SAP community members for an eventful new year 2009.
As on date our forum has become a huge repository of subject material thanks to the contributions made by all of us.I would like to bring to the notice of all community forum members the functionality of "Search forum". This is a very helpful functionality which lets user search the threads of functionality with respect to the keywords provided.
It is my request to all forum users particularly our new friends to please use this functionality before posting their queries. Many times you might get your answer already in the forum repository and this can bring a save in your wait time. I had been a regular user of this functionality and believe me it is my personal experience that I have found roughly answers to my queries/doubts 40% of times.
Hope we all will be exploring this functionality in 2009 to the maximum extent...
Rgds
Manish

Hi
I suggest that you try and search before actually creating a question. When I did a search a couple of days ago, I saw the same question asked 3 or 4 times. All I did was send them the link of the previous thread. I suggest users first do a specific search and then a generic search on the functionality. I am quite sure we can reduce the number of repetative issues raised if we follow this!!
As a suggestion, whenever any person registers to the SDN, if a standard message is sent on the availability of the search option, would be a great. So that the users are avialable and they are encouraged to use the search option.
There are some documents avilable in the WIKI section. This could also be a search option. The answers we are looking for may already be there in those documents.
Hope everyone follows this. Thanks in advance.....
Regards,
Karthik Coneru

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