The search fields in this new forum are very confusing. I do not understand how to confine the search to a specific forum. For example I searched "Community Help" and got hits on Photoshop and other forums I cannot "clear" a search field … the "x" does nothing. And if I manually delete the search string I am NOT taken back to the original forum I was in. If someone can point me to clear instructions I'll keep trying. Otherwise, I'll look for a better place to find answers.

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Search field(s) confuse me.

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January 15, 2020
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The search fields in this new forum are very confusing.

I do not understand how to confine the search to a specific forum.
- For example I searched "Community Help" and got hits on Photoshop and other forums
I cannot "clear" a search field … the "x" does nothing.
- And if I manually delete the search string I am NOT taken back to the original forum I was in.

If someone can point me to clear instructions I'll keep trying. Otherwise, I'll look for a better place to find answers.

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

schroef,

"That link is weird, hardly readable"

I apologize.

The bilingual instructions with alternating English/Japanese paragraphs was the only way I could make it.

I hope you can see the decorative lines in Japanese as such, and just read the English lines.

Part 4) referring to search specifies how to create and bookmark a search page for each forum; it is an elaboration on two posts by katayanagi with links, the second link is to the post you have just found and used.

schroef

Inspiring

This just shows how bad this new forum design is. Not only did they break tons of scripts with the transferring. The search is hideous and the results are even worst.

I search something and for instance, it shows 1000 hits, how the hell to i get past the 10 first???
It feels like either pagination is missing or something is really horribly broken

schroef

Inspiring

Luckily i found a "hotfix" for the search issue here

WHy does it take months to adjust a searchqeury scripts which spits out advanced=true thats how search should work and show pagination

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Ray,

You may be able to use 4) in the OP below (and maybe 1) - 3) for other purposes).

https://community.adobe.com/t5/community-feedback/suggestions-for-easier-forum-work-%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E3%81%AE%E4%BD%9C%E6%A5%AD%E3%82%92%E7%B0%A1%E5%8D%98%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%81%9F%E3%82%81%E3%81%AE%E6%8F%90%E6%A1%88/m-p/10772878

For other forums than Illustrator, you can just click the Search box for the forum in question, then make the same changes in the URL as shown in 4), then Bookmark; I have Bookmarked a search right under each forum just inserting the word Search before the forum name.