Minimum Search Length

[Red Stripe]

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]

I was thinking the same

thing.

Hi

[Red Stripe]

Edit: Ok it works for 2 or

more now, thanks Web guy!

[Bruce]

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]

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]

That is weird. Probably because

there is only one alphabet in there.

B

[nbnbtc]

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]

I thought maybe including a space on

both sides might help, or quotes, but nada.

Bruce

[nbnbtc]

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]

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]

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]

Yeah dienone works, but it leaves

out a lot of the newer posts