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jwc Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Speaking of forum problem. Is there any way to get the search function to work like the old forum. Now when you type in a word, you get a mess of stuff that takes forever to sort out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfyr Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Use pipes! This allows you to perform a search, then sort the results for subsequent contents, and those contents for other contents etc.! for example: People | US&Canada| Male | 42 | March This will sort for items defined as people, then the results will be sorted for locales equal to the US and Canada, the results of which will be sorted by gender equal to male, which will then be sorted for ages equal to 42 , which will then be sorted for birthdays in March - assuming these fields are defined...In this site we don't have defined fields so you are simply sorting by distinctive words. You just narrow the results of each query by the specification of a new term...LaScala | plans | crossover | AAAwill search for the word LaScala, then this result will be sorted for occurances of the word plans, which will be sorted for the word crossover which will be sorted for the word AAA.It works quite well, as opposed to the utterly dysfunctional old..., well whatever it was! As that monstrosity certainly wasn't an effective search engine! []Oh, and I suspect that you can use all of the logical Boolean operators in addition to & and OR, but I really haven't played with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwc Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Great tip. I'll try that. I will say again that I had NO trouble with the old search engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfyr Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 .... I will say again that I had NO trouble with the old search engine. I think you were among an elite group of 2 or 3!!![] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 pipes - cool! what was Forum problem? too many flames?[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 very cool tip Mark, thanks loads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Amy, Thanks for posting that there is a problem, and that your looking into fixing it!.........:>) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwc Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Use pipes! This allows you to perform a search, then sort the results for subsequent contents, and those contents for other contents etc.! for example: People | US&Canada| Male | 42 | March This will sort for items defined as people, then the results will be sorted for locales equal to the US and Canada, the results of which will be sorted by gender equal to male, which will then be sorted for ages equal to 42 , which will then be sorted for birthdays in March - assuming these fields are defined... In this site we don't have defined fields so you are simply sorting by distinctive words. You just narrow the results of each query by the specification of a new term... LaScala | plans | crossover | AAA will search for the word LaScala, then this result will be sorted for occurances of the word plans, which will be sorted for the word crossover which will be sorted for the word AAA. It works quite well, as opposed to the utterly dysfunctional old..., well whatever it was! As that monstrosity certainly wasn't an effective search engine! [] Oh, and I suspect that you can use all of the logical Boolean operators in addition to & and OR, but I really haven't played with them. Well, I have tried the pipes and its not working for me. Maybe I'm doing it wrong Lets say I want to search "Cornscala". Now I am only interested in the last month or this month's postings. Using "Cornscala | October" or "Cornscala | 10" doesn't work. I get tons of Crap to sort through. Is there anyway to sort by date? "Anyone, Anyone, Bueller". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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