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June 8, 2011
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Any Updates on the Forum Search Function?

  • June 8, 2011
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It has been awhile, and several threads, but I have seen nothing recent on the progress on the Forum Search Function.

Can anyone comment on the status of Search, in the forums?

Went looking for some simple search criteria, limited to just the Premiere Pro CS5/CS5.5 Forum. There have been some recent threads on an issue, but Adobe Forum Search will not turn up anything, when limited to that, or the Premiere root. Bogus!

Google will yield millions of hits, but by the time I filter out all the words on "hacked" versions of PrPro, etc., I have a 3 page exclusions list. It is easier for me to just go and read the last 1000 recent posts in that forum, to find what I am looking for.

Also, searching on the exact forum URL, the first 10,000 hits are old spam posts, that have been long removed.

This is still very frustrating, and I can only hope that things are progressing and an estimated time/date for implementation in near.

Thanks,

Hunt

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    Correct answer adobe-admin

    Updating to newer software (with, I presume, bug fixes) will be a really good thing... any idea when?


    Every time I give out a date here, I get turned into a liar by schedule changes. So waiting for a more firm timeline.

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    Anonymous
    June 9, 2011

    Google searches can be refined.

    I search certain forums with the following 3 elements at Google.

    1. "Up to Discussions in Photoshop Macintosh" (distinct text wrapped in quotes to limit to a particular forum)
    2. site:forums.adobe.com (limits to Adobe's forums)
    3. some search phrase

    Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=hand+tool+site%3Aforums.adobe.com+"Up+to+Discussions+in+Photoshop+Macintosh"

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 9, 2011

    Thank you very much for that one, Marian.

    It seems to work just with search words and then Up to Discussions in Forum Name.

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2011

    Here is the message about an update http://forums.adobe.com/message/3694072 with May 22 "upgrading our forum software soon, too" notice

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2011

    I did not add the message ID to my notes page, and the search is broken, but I'm pretty sure that 2-3 weeks ago (I think) Adobe-Admin said (again, I think) that "changes" were in the works for the forum software

    No description or timeline was given... so no way to know if the "changes" will just be a new spool of wire to try and hold the current forum together awhile longer, or if Adobe is actually going to update to the current version of Jiveware

    In the meantime, we just limp along with what we have

    adobe-admin
    adobe-admin
    Legend
    June 8, 2011

    I said that we would be updating to a new version of Jive. No changes in the current forums.

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2011

    Updating to newer software (with, I presume, bug fixes) will be a really good thing... any idea when?

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