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How about a "Search this forum" feature instead of only "Search Forums"

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
April 21, 2010
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There are a few Adobe Forums I visit regular. I often use the search function and would like to search only in the forum I am visiting at that moment. Currently we have to search in ALL 560 or so forums and have the option to fine-tune the search by searching and selecting the forum in a huge unhelpful ordered list. This isn't convenient.

So hence my request: could we please have a "Search This Forum" search box (besides the current "Search Forums" in the top right)?

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Anonymous

This is good news, but we shouldn't have to request this to get it.

It should be in the Flex forums, it's one of the more active ones for sure.

Harbs.

Legend

Ansury,

To get it right, each forum search should be individualized. That takes knowledge of which forums have related content, so it's best done by users of the particular forum.

If you give me a list of the individual forums that should be searched, I'll put the widget up there. (i.e. should ActionScript be searched? Flex in a Week? Tour de Flex? etc.)

Harbs

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Anonymous

I see, very cool - well this is certainly debatable but here's my suggestion:

1) Primarily "Search this forum" for the very active Flex general forum, the others aren't so big and shouldn't be a priority.

http://forums.adobe.com/community/flex/flex_general_discussion

and the AIR forum:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/air/air_general_discussion

2) "Search all Flex forums" (hitting all of these: http://forums.adobe.com/community/flex?view=overview ) makes sense also. Basically anything under the >Flex category, to keep things consistent and simple.

3) If we can have a third search, it might be pretty cool to have one that hits all of these forums ("Search all Flex-related forums"?):

All here:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/flex?view=overview

Both here:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash_builder

AIR:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/air/air_general_discussion

AS3 (thank you Adobe for splitting this off from AS1+AS2 ):

http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash/flash_actionscript3

There are other potential choices but they might be pushing it so I'd start with those. I'd give you a list but copy/paste isn't cooperating.

Harbs.

Legend

Which forum are you talking about?

I came up with the custom search widget very recently, so a lot of forums dont have them yet...

Harbs

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bvlAuthor

Known Participant

E.g. the 'Text Layout Framework'. The good news I requested it there a few minutes ago (per my onw advise in this thread) and it was added a minute ago (thanks Alan).

I hope to see your search widget on all forums soon, thanks!

adobe-admin

Legend

You can thank Alan Stearns for that one (Text Layout Framework). He just asked how to add that earlier today and I put it in place for him (faster/easier than describing how to do it).

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bvlAuthor

Known Participant

By the way as a work around for the forums I most frequently visit I created shortcuts in this way:

Do a search, select the desired forum, search, clean up the resulting URL (remove e.g the actual searched phrase) and add that link to my browsers favorites or drag the link to the desktop.

John T Smith

Community Expert

I of course do not know how it was done, but some of the Premiere forums have a "Search THESE Forums" box (emphasis mine)

http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere

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bvlAuthor

Known Participant

Hmmm interesting, so maybe the trick is to ask at the individual forums for that feature with a link to how it's done on the Premiere forums.

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi there

What you need to do is ask the moderator helper of the forums you visit to add this capability.

I assist with the Captivate and RoboHelp forums and have added the functionality to them.

http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp

http://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_captivate

Implementing it isn't all that bad and is often helpful to the participants.

Cheers... Rick

Claudio González

Legend

Did you take a look at the FAQs?

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424191?tstart=0

Or at previous threads on the subject, like this one?

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2306738?tstart=0

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bvlAuthor

Known Participant

What the FAQs describe is what my complain/request is all about.

The old thread you mentioned didn't result in any action on the side of Adobe, so maybe it deserves some more attention (/pushing) by another thread on the same topic?