Search here is very hard to make use of, I find.
Not only does Search, as is, hunt through every language in the forum site but the page it returns makes no reference to the searched-for terms. No reminder; no reference.
I searched for christian at the top of the search page and amongst all the 2298 topics returned there was one, for example:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewforum.php?f=6
- that had eleven (11) pages of discussion. (I won't mention the thread with 85 pages..)
How hard is it for anyone to find a word in umpteen pages of a thread? I say it's almost impossible.
This forum is an integral part of the extended TC product family but if it's unusable then the product as a whole is diminished.
Can we have a more functional, efficient Search?
A More Functional Forum Search
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Just choose the option to show the results as posts, not topics. You can also choose in which forum you want to search.
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PeterTBCarp2
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Yes but..
Yes, Christian, okay, choose Posts. That's better.
1. But doing the search for christian that way I get 4041 responses. In 270 pages.
2. Again, if I have to specify in which forum I want to search I have to select from among 16 forums to do it. And speaking only English I would have to choose from 10 forums, some of which are marked 'English', some of which are not.
That's not too usable.
3. To repeat the process, if I make 1 click to start Search again, 3 clicks to bring back christian, 1 for Posts (again!), 2 clicks to get to the next forum, and 1 on the search button - that's a lot of work to search a forum, to say noting of the scrolling and 'Next Paging'.
Then I have to do it again for the next 8 forums...
Not friendly, I suggest.
4. And there's still no reminder of what the term(s) were that I searched for. Same.
Computers do things better than this, surely?
All to make the Complete Product better.
1. But doing the search for christian that way I get 4041 responses. In 270 pages.
2. Again, if I have to specify in which forum I want to search I have to select from among 16 forums to do it. And speaking only English I would have to choose from 10 forums, some of which are marked 'English', some of which are not.
That's not too usable.
3. To repeat the process, if I make 1 click to start Search again, 3 clicks to bring back christian, 1 for Posts (again!), 2 clicks to get to the next forum, and 1 on the search button - that's a lot of work to search a forum, to say noting of the scrolling and 'Next Paging'.
Then I have to do it again for the next 8 forums...
Not friendly, I suggest.
4. And there's still no reminder of what the term(s) were that I searched for. Same.
Computers do things better than this, surely?
All to make the Complete Product better.
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PeterTBCarp2
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:cry:
Plus - there doesn't seem to be a way to search for a phrase - say, help text.
Searching for "help text" returns the same results as searching for help text.
Searching for "help text" returns the same results as searching for help text.