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CharlesBelov
Participating Frequently
July 16, 2009
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Search current forum only

  • July 16, 2009
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If I navigate to a specific forum, then do a search, it searches all forums. How do I search on the current forum only?

      Correct answer Jesseham

      There is no easy way to do it, unfortunately.  It's pretty much rendered the search function useless.  Once you do your search, tip open the "more options" arrow and pick your forum out of the list of 7000 that makes it impossible to find your forum due to its sub-groupings.

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      Anonymous
      July 17, 2009

      I just google anything I need to know and bypass the forum search. Google will give better results and the correct forum. Kinda sad but true.

      CharlesBelov wrote:

      If I navigate to a specific forum, then do a search, it searches all forums. How do I search on the current forum only?

      Ramón G Castañeda
      Ramón G Castañeda
      Inspiring
      July 16, 2009

      There is a very simple way of doing it:

      84. Jul 14, 2009 3:40 PM in response to:                                     xbytor2

      Re: Usability tweaks

      New GreaseMonkey script!

      Adobe Forums: Search this forum only

      This script hacks the Search Forum form to insert the current sub-forum Community ID as a hidden value. The result is that when you enter a search, it only returns results from the sub-forum you are currently viewing.

      Based on this tip posted by phyllisj9 over in the InDesign General sub-forum

      http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/dgarchives/designgeek76.php#search-forums

      and the fact that I figured out how to find Community ID in all community/* and thread/* pages.

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      Jesseham
      Inspiring
      July 16, 2009

      I stand corrected.  If you run FF and greasemonkey, there is a way. ;-)

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      JayJhabrix
      Inspiring
      July 16, 2009

      Jesseham wrote:

      I stand corrected.  If you run FF and greasemonkey, there is a way. ;-)

      Sure there's a way... but why should i 'hack'  myself around the forums to find a way? And what about allthe others who don't visit this forum,,, what are they supposed to do? Not aimed at you Jesse... just generally...

      This whole site is a mess of codswallop....

      And now, young Mr Joslin is going to leap in with a comment or non sequitur...

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      JessehamCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      July 16, 2009

      There is no easy way to do it, unfortunately.  It's pretty much rendered the search function useless.  Once you do your search, tip open the "more options" arrow and pick your forum out of the list of 7000 that makes it impossible to find your forum due to its sub-groupings.

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      CharlesBelovAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 16, 2009

      Accepting this one due to Occam's Razor (simplest solution).

      Actually, now that you've shown me where to look, I see the forums are arranged alphabetically by product so I just scrolled down to Contribute and the 3 or 4 Contribute-related forums were right there.

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