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Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
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January 11, 2011
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  • January 11, 2011
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There is this option Search this Forum Only. So i type in a word, in this case mp3.

This is what i get when i hit OK.

If i click on one of the links i am back where i started. More Options does not help either.

Is it me or do i not understand how this search workes.

I also would like to find all (not just the last 25 or so) the posts of one Person. How do i do that.

Thanks

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    K
    KelvAnd
    Participant
    February 7, 2011

    Search remains broken: searches done on phrases (search terms that require quotes), will produce the 'no-subject' search result.

    Extremely unfortunate that this problem remains. I feel I am posting unnecessarily because I can't search properly for a previous problem.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2011

    I had not even checked Search for a bit, and am saddened that it has not been fixed.

    For a bit, Google/Bing was bringing up Adobe forum threads perfectly, but lately, I have gotten some hits, that only went to the main page for the appropriate forum. With so very much useful material available to new posters, it is a horrible shame that we cannot easily access much of it.

    Sad news indeed,

    Hunt

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    February 8, 2011

    Well,unfortunately this is not the major bu

    g in these forums that has remained unfixed for an unacceptable len

    gth of time. This is Adobe, not a minor second rate company. Or perhap

    s it's becoming one?

    A
    Anonymous
    February 3, 2011

    Glad to know it isn't me with this search problem.

    It's hard to understand how something as bog-standard as a forum search can be broken like this. It really makes the forums completely unusable and unhelpful.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    February 4, 2011

    I also wonder where the fix is...?  In December, when the problem first surfaced, it was said that the fix is just days away; now it is February, and the search still doesn't work!

    A
    Anonymous
    January 22, 2011

    I'm new here...this is my first post.

    But I've also noticed the same problem...and every search in this sense does nothing but improve the system.

    Andreas Jansson
    Andreas Jansson
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2011

    This is extremely annoying. This is a fairly new error: for certain queries the subject name is not showing, and the links in the so called result leads to the unfiltered forum roots.

    I get it as soon as I search on more than one word, but also on searches like INDESIGN\_MARKUP (the underscore has to be "escaped" by a back-slash character). Perhaps the same goes for searching on words ending in digits, like your mp3 search. Searching for "mp" only, returns a more normal looking result.

    Adobe, please do something about the search function!

    I have a shortcut to page limiting the search to the InDesign scripting forum, and that works fine, but it's not user friendly to let the users build their own solutions just to search in your forum threads. I've read that people develop plugins for firefox just to be able to make a normal search in a forum.

    Please Adobe, prioritize this! Adapt the forum to what the users want. Talk to the company behind the forum code, and pay them to make it good. And most importantly pay attention to pure errors like this:

    ... and fix them.

    Best regards, Andreas Jansson

    PS. I just filed this as a bug in the Feature Request/Bug Report Form.

    J
    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2011

    Andreas Jansson wrote on 11/01/18 17:46:

    I get it as soon as I search on more than one word, but also on searches like INDESIGN\_MARKUP (the underscore has to be "escaped" by a back-slash character). Perhaps the same goes for searching on words ending in digits, like your mp3 search. Searching for "mp" only, returns a more normal looking result.

    I can not reproduce this on multi-word queries. I can reproduce it on

    every search that has a character that is not a-z or a space.

    adobe-admin
    adobe-admin
    Legend
    January 18, 2011

    Jive is supposed to have a fix ready. We are waiting for their Hosting team to push it out. I'll post a note when we have an eta on the fix.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    January 12, 2011

    See also http://forums.adobe.com/thread/766041

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity ExpertAuthor
    Community Expert
    January 12, 2011

    Thank God, it's not me.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    January 12, 2011

    Most definitely, no. People have been complaining about the search engine since the implementation of this new version of the forums about two years ago, and improvements have ben few and mostly partial.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    January 12, 2011

    Ann,

    Several others have experienced the same thing, in the last month +/-. I have only gotten that once, and in moments (actually just adding a Search Option) it cleared up.

    On Google Chrome and XP-Pro SP3.

    Hunt

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 11, 2011

    May be related to this http://forums.adobe.com/thread/776423?tstart=0 (or may be a different Jive issue) but I have also noticed that the forum search function is broken

    Until Adobe/Jive fixes the problem, I don't think there is anything you may do

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