@Webmaster: please fix forum search function
Hi,
I'm truly sorry to post this message in this group. I can't find any contact information of the webmaster of this forum.
For a few weeks, any search query executed on the forum will result in 0 findings. I've tried using safari, firefox and explorer on Mac and Pc.
Are there other people having the same issue?
Kind regards
John
Yes.
Search us currently broken...
Adobe Admin is aware of the issue...
Harbs
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Will someone at Adobe please fix the search function on the Forums? It's been several weeks they've
For weeks now in the Fireworks forum, when I search for anything, I get:
Variable FTVAR_RESULTTYPE is undefined.
Resources:
* Enable Robust Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debug Output Settings, and select the Robust Exception Information option.
* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.
Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Remote Address 10.172.32.24
Referrer http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm
?forumid=14&catid=193&STARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
Date/Time 07-Jan-09 05:23 PM
Other people are reporting the same problem and it's been this way for weeks now.
I must say that as a paying customer, I expect better from a company like Adobe.I have reported the issue to the web team. I'll rattle the chains again.
Some clarification, the FuseTalk forums run on the ColdFusion platform, but are not an Adobe product. It is like Photoshop. It runs on a Macintosh, but it isn't an Apple product. It runs on Windows, but isn't a Microsoft product.
Most folks here know that I'm pretty neutral about comparing the two forums. But I recently had to run some reports on them and activity is about the same on both, with the Macromedia Forums being a little more busy than the Adobe ones. Most people are comfortable with the system they know. At the time of the Adobe/Macromedia merger there were a number of performance issues with the Macromedia Forums. Most of them have been addressed.
There was only one attempt to move from WebCrossing to FuseTalk, and that never saw the light of day. It was back in August 2006 and the project got killed before anything happened. I don't know where the comment about ColdFusion product managers wanting to use that platform for all forums comes from, I've never heard that internally.
In October 2007 we imported all of the data from the Macromedia forums into Web Crossing and did release it for two weeks and that didn't work out well (a big understatement). It was so bad that most people who went through it have suffered some sort of amnesia. They seem to recall that we were moving the other direction (WebX to Fusetalk). But that is not the case. All forums were running on Web Crossing during that experience.
John -
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).
HuntJacob, 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. -
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
MKrefer 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 -
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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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 -
Please help with search function
Heya, im currently working on code that will allow me to add, view, search and remove prisoners and wardens from a prison system. So far i have managed to allow the user to add and view. Im a bit stuck on the search part of the code, its a bit temperamental :S, sometimes it will find and display the data, but other times it will not and comes up with the error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Prison.getNum(Prison.java:128)
at TestPrison.main(TestPrison.java:101)
Below i have put my Prison and TestPrison Class files and highlighted the lines the compiler said had the error, any help would be really appreciated because i really cant work out wats going on.
Prison
public class Prison
private Prisoner [] thePrisoner;
private Warden [] theWarden;
private HighPrisoner [] theHighPrisoner;
private int maxP;
private int maxPrisoners;
private int maxW;
private int maxWardens;
private int maxH;
private int maxHighPrisoners;
public String prisonName;
public Prison (String prison, int maxP, int maxW, int maxH)
prisonName = prison;
maxPrisoners = maxP;
maxP = 0;
thePrisoner = new Prisoner [maxPrisoners];
maxWardens = maxW;
maxW = 0;
theWarden = new Warden [maxWardens];
maxHighPrisoners = maxH;
maxH = 0;
theHighPrisoner = new HighPrisoner [maxHighPrisoners];
public boolean addPrisoner( Prisoner newPrisoner )
if ( maxP == maxPrisoners )
System.out.println("Prisons full");
return false;
else
System.out.println("Prisoner now in Prison");
thePrisoner[maxP] = newPrisoner;
maxP++;
return true;
public boolean addHighPrisoner( HighPrisoner newHighPrisoner )
if ( maxH == maxHighPrisoners )
System.out.println("Prisons full");
return false;
else
System.out.println("High Level Prisoner now in Prison");
theHighPrisoner[maxH] = newHighPrisoner;
maxH++;
return true;
public boolean addWarden( Warden newWarden )
if ( maxW == maxWardens )
System.out.println("We Have Anough Wardens");
return false;
else
System.out.println("Warden now working at Prison");
theWarden[maxW] = newWarden;
maxW++;
return true;
public void outputAll()
System.out.println("School Name: " + prisonName );
System.out.println("");
outputWardens();
System.out.println("");
outputPrisoners();
System.out.println("");
outputHighPrisoners();
System.out.println("");
public void outputWardens()
System.out.println("The Wardens:");
for( int i=0; i < maxW; ++i)
System.out.println(theWarden);
public void outputPrisoners()
System.out.println("The Low Level Prisoners:");
for( int i=0; i < maxP; ++i)
System.out.println(thePrisoner[i]);
public void outputHighPrisoners()
System.out.println("The High Level Prisoners:");
for( int i=0; i < maxH; ++i)
System.out.println(theHighPrisoner[i]);
public void getNum(String num)
System.out.println("---------------");
System.out.println("Search for Prisoner ID:");
System.out.println("---------------");
for(Prisoner nextPrisoner : thePrisoner)
--> 128 if (nextPrisoner.getNum() == num)
System.out.println(nextPrisoner);
else
System.out.println("Sorry no Prisoner ID found");
for(HighPrisoner nextHighPrisoner : theHighPrisoner)
if (nextHighPrisoner.getNum() == num)
System.out.println(nextHighPrisoner);
else
System.out.println("Sorry No Prisoner ID found");
System.out.println("");
TestPrison
import java.util.*;
public class TestPrison
public static void main(String []args)
String sN;
int sS;
String sA;
String tN;
int tS;
int input;
String aN;
int aS;
String aA;
int aL;
String aC;
String pN;
String rN;
Scanner kybd = new Scanner(System.in);
Prison prison0 = new Prison("Alcatraz",200,200,100);
do {
menu();
System.out.println("Enter Option: ");
input = kybd.nextInt();
switch(input) {
case 1:
System.out.println("Enter Name: ");
tN = kybd.next();
System.out.println("Enter Rank: ");
tS = kybd.nextInt();
Warden wardenObject = new Warden(tN,tS);
prison0.addWarden(wardenObject);
System.out.println("\nWarden "+tN+" Added!");
break;
case 2:
System.out.println("Enter Prisoner Security Level: ");
aL = kybd.nextInt();
if (aL > 3)
System.out.println("Enter Name: ");
aN = kybd.next();
System.out.println("Enter Remaining Jail Time: ");
aS = kybd.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter Prisoner ID: ");
aA = kybd.next();
System.out.println("Can Prisoner Share Cell? ");
aC = kybd.next();
HighPrisoner highprisonerObject = new HighPrisoner(aN,aS,aA,aL,aC);
prison0.addHighPrisoner(highprisonerObject);
System.out.println("\nPrisoner " + aA + " Added!");
break;
else
System.out.println("Enter Name: ");
sN = kybd.next();
System.out.println("Enter Remaining Jail Time: ");
sS = kybd.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter Prisoner ID: ");
sA = kybd.next();
Prisoner prisonerObject = new Prisoner(sN,sS,sA);
prison0.addPrisoner(prisonerObject);
System.out.println("\nPrisoner " + sA + " Added!");
break;
case 3:
prison0.outputAll();
break;
case 4:
prison0.outputWardens();
break;
case 5:
prison0.outputPrisoners();
break;
case 6:
prison0.outputHighPrisoners();
break;
case 7:
prison0.outputPrisoners();
prison0.outputHighPrisoners();
break;
case 8:
System.out.println("Enter Prisoner ID: ");
pN = kybd.next();
---> 101 prison0.getNum(pN);
break;
default:
System.out.println("Error Selection Does Not Exist");
break;
} while(input >= 0);
public static void menu() {
System.out.println("");
System.out.println("MAIN MENU");
System.out.println("*********\n");
System.out.println("1. Add Warden\n");
System.out.println("2. Add Prisoner\n");
System.out.println("3. View All\n");
System.out.println("4. View Wardens\n");
System.out.println("5. View Low Level Prisoners\n");
System.out.println("6. View High Level Prisoners\n");
System.out.println("7. View All Prisoners\n");
System.out.println("8. Search Prisoner ID\n\n");
Once again any help would really be appreciated : )The nextPrisoner is null, and you can't call getNum() on a null reference.
Try replacing that line with:if (nextPrisoner != null && nextPrisoner.getNum() == num) Oh, next time you're posting code, please use code tags:
http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting -
Forum search function whacked ...
Whatever else they thought that update was going to improve it's whacked "search" on the forum.
Who do I complain to at Apple?There was a note that the Search was down temporarily... this happens occasionally, and it always comes back. Note that a Google search often turns up Apple support forum threads within the first few pages of results.
Here is Apple contact info:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
CG -
Where has the support forums search function gone?
I'd like to search for my question before posting it to see if it's answered already, but the search box up top right on the header bar searches the whole **** apple. Am I missing something? I'd be keen to just search iWeb '08.
Cheers!_Read This_ it's the announcement posted at discussions.apple.com in case you missed it
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Having problems using search function on FM forum; no results ever found
I've done searches on topics that I know exist, but I never get any results. I never used to have this problem. Did something change?
fwiw, the forum search functionality (within forums as well as over all the forums) seems to be having issues over the last several weeks. I haven't had any search results for several weeks, tried 3x different browsers.
There's a discussion about it in the Forum Comments section:
"Is the forum search broken"
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/823088?tstart=0 -
[solved]Possible issue with forum search
This thread does not show up in a search for "xfce" in "Topic subject only".
Edit: apparently, all searches are "described" the same way, so nevermind the rest.
Also, the description for the search is
Topics with posts containing 'xfce'
which seems like a poor description for a search in "Topic subject only".
Topics containing 'xfce'
would be much more appropriate I think.
Last edited by alphaniner (2012-04-30 18:45:25)alphaniner wrote:
There's a particular cruelty in Arch having a broken forum search function, as often as people are admonished for not STFF.
If the function is known to be bugged, wouldn't it be responsible to point that out somewhere, if not remove it entirely?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page tels you that you can use Google search too. Such a note for the forum would be nice. -
The ipad safari on facebook will echo characters on the search feature. Please fix this STUPID error! At the least, investigate it and come to a suitable response. Stupid things like this are making me lose faith and interest in Apple products.
This is a user Forum, No one here works for Apple.
If you can be a bit more clear with what your problem is, maybe someone here can help you find a solution. -
My search function does not work. How can I fix it?
Hello
I need help I just bough a macbook 13 inch, with snow leopard
and the search function does not work.
The window opens but when I write the name i searh it gives me no results.
How can i fix it?
Do i need really to re install all snow leopard?
thanks
ptHello paola t & welcome to the forums
I need help I just bough a macbook 13 inch
It may be that Spotlight hasn't completed indexing just yet - is there a dot (indicates busy) inside the magnifying icon top right?
Also, check System Preferences/Spotlight to see what if any exclusions are configured, etc. -
Fix for WebHelp output issues with IE 11 breaks Search function
I use RoboHelp HTML 9 and have been having issues with generated WebHelp in IE 11. The TOC was totally blank and the Search tab looked fine but did not function. Everything worked fine in Firefox. After much experimenting and online research in these forums and elsewhere, I have been able to get the TOC to display properly in IE 11 (and Firefox) but the fix has caused the Search tab to stop functioning as per this other forum post RH9 Webhelp Search function is not working properly.
I need to have BOTH TOC and Search displayed and functioning properly but in order to get the TOC displayed properly I had to change the Preferred Format setting to "Pure HTML" and, according to the post mentioned above, that is what messes up the Search function. Is there a solution that will allow both TOC and Search to function properly?
Here is a summary of the steps I have taken to get to this point:
Tested WebHelp output from two different projects of my own as well as the Salesbuilder starter project - all would display/function properly in Firefox but not in IE 11 (blank TOC and non-functioning Search).
Found a "patch" for RH10 for the exact problem I was having with RH9 but was not able to find a version for RH9. Since the patch included 2 files (whutils.js and whver.js) only, I backed up these files in the RoboHTML\WebHelp5Ext\template_stock directory and replaced them with the new ones.
Regenerated one of my RoboHelp projects - still didn't work in IE 11 and now didn't work in Firefox either!
Tried turning on Mark of the Web but this did not help and would not allow opening PDF's which is necessary to one of the projects so I turned it off again.
Changed Preferred Format setting to "Pure HTML" instead of "DHTML" and the TOC displayed and functioned properly in IE 11 and Firefox! Hurray!!
Celebrated for 10 seconds until I clicked on Search tab and saw the input box filled with letters of the alphabet with other random letters, words, numbers below. It looks almost like an index but neither of my projects uses an index and I have not generated one in either project.
Found the post mentioned above which states that the solution is to change the Preferred Format setting back to DHTML but when I do that I am back to blank TOC and proper-looking but non-functioning Search!!!
I have now removed the Search tab from the output of one of the projects since it is not really necessary but I need to find a fix for this for my other project.
Both of my projects are run locally - one is release documentation that is distributed on a CD and the other is CSH which is loaded on the local server with the software for which it was created.
Dorothy
Note to Administrators: Sorry, but I originally posted this as a reply to a previous post - Contents, Index, & Search do not display in generated help... - so perhaps it should be removed from that thread to avoid confusion.The "preliminary" fix provided has worked perfectly! All versions of my WebHelp project now display TOC properly and I was able to change the Preferred Format setting back to DHTML so the Search tab both displays and functions as it should. I am very grateful to William for providing this fix which works in both IE 11 and Firefox. Someday I will pursue the fixes to make it work in Chrome as well.
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Forum-specific search functions don't work
The search function on this site doesn't seem to work properly. If I try to do a search on a specific forum via the 'Only this forum" function on the right side of the page (which doesn't seem to appear on every forum) or by selecting 'More options' from the search page, I get 0 results. Example - If I search the 'Photoshop' forums specifically, and enter 'Photoshop' into the search criteria, there are no results. I get the same results entering 'Acrobat' into the Acrobat forum, and on any other forum I have tried. It doesn't matter what I type into the criteria, I get 0 results. This happens both on a mac running Safari, as well as on my PC running IE.
It's not a problem on your system - it's well known here.
There's an almost perpetual "we're working to try to fix the search" response from the admins. It's clear they're knocking themselves out to try to make this forum better, but the technical challenges against them just must be horrendous.
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