View Full Version : Minimum Search Length
Red Stripe
06-11-2004, 04:43 AM
Bruce or
whoever the Webmaster is...can you change the minimum search length on the forums to 3 or 2 instead of 4. The phero
abbreviations used (NPA, AE, TE, SOE) make searching the archives kind of difficult. Also colons and # symbols
cannot be searched for as in the old forum...e.g. SOE:NPA or DD#1. Maybe you can fix that too? Thanks and btw, my
first post so -hello all :)
CptKipling
06-11-2004, 06:20 AM
I was thinking the same
thing.
Hi :)
Red Stripe
06-30-2004, 03:20 AM
Edit: Ok it works for 2 or
more now, thanks Web guy!
Bruce
06-30-2004, 04:26 AM
Yeah, Very sorry I didn't announce
that. I heard it was being worked on, but didn't know it was complete. It actually was a lot more difficult to
change that feature than you might think.
Enjoy,
Bruce
nbnbtc
06-30-2004, 06:59 AM
Bruce, I just tried the new search feature and while I'm happy that it does work for things like TE and SOE...when
I try searching for A1 it still says that it isn't long enough. I know that this is a difficult thing to correct,
but can you please look into it? Thanks!
Bruce
06-30-2004, 07:23 AM
That is weird. Probably because
there is only one alphabet in there.
B
nbnbtc
08-23-2004, 11:49 AM
Don't know if anyone ever looked
into this, but it still won't take "A1" as a valid search term. Searching for the full name of it is fine, but a
lot of the posts just call it A1 so those end up being lost. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Bruce
08-23-2004, 12:18 PM
I thought maybe including a space on
both sides might help, or quotes, but nada.
Bruce
nbnbtc
08-23-2004, 12:25 PM
Yeah I even tried doing A1** like
someone suggested a while back, still nothing. I know you guys were able to make things like SOE searchable, can you
do that for A1 too?
Bruce
08-23-2004, 01:01 PM
I think Webby reduced the minimum
characters from 4 to 3 to accomplish that. The lower you go with that, the more strain gets put on system
resources.
BassMan
08-23-2004, 01:26 PM
Yeah I even tried
doing A1** like someone suggested a while back, still nothing. I know you guys were able to make things like SOE
searchable, can you do that for A1 too?It won't find every instance, but try searching for "dienone".
-Bass
nbnbtc
08-24-2004, 06:52 AM
Yeah dienone works, but it leaves
out a lot of the newer posts
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