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Anonymous

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Is the forum search broken?

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
March 18, 2011
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When I try to search in the InDesign Scripting forums the search returns 0 results. Same for the other InDesign Forums.

Here is an example:

http://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa?q=javascript&resultTypes=MESSAGE&dateRange=all&communityID=3331

When I search in all forums lots of results for the same term shows up from the InDesign forums.

What is wrong?

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Correct answer

Happy days are here again.
The subforum search is working!

rcraighead

Legend

Yes, the current Forum search is broken. I don't even know anymore, how to use search on this forum. The search field will NOT clear when hitting the "X" on the right. I cannot navigate back to the last URL when I finish the search. Search on Adobe Forum is broken and has been for about 6 months.

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Anonymous

Forum search seems to be fixed now.

http://forumsearch.comyr.com/

areohbee

Legend

Thanks Marian.

Just to clarify - *this* forum's search is still as broken as ever, but the alternative forum search works quite well - bookmark it!

Cheers,

Rob

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Anonymous

Correct answer

Happy days are here again.
The subforum search is working!

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Anonymous

It seems that the Framemaker forum search is still broke. This is simpy unbelievable.

This is supposed to be proffessional Software intended for proffessional users. The fact that Adobe needs four months to provide a working user forum does not increase their credibility as a software developing company..

~graffiti

Legend

robert-sfl wrote:
It seems that the Framemaker forum search is still broke. This is simpy unbelievable.
This is supposed to be proffessional Software intended for proffessional users. The fact that Adobe needs four months to provide a working user forum does not increase their credibility as a software developing company..

It's not their software.

Noel Carboni

Legend

~graffiti wrote:
It's not their software.

But it is their decision to pay someone else to use THEIR software. Not that it's all THAT bad, but persistent forum problems do make Adobe look bad.

If it was *my* web site I could have taught my 88 year old mother-in-law programming and had her fix it in as long as some of these quirks have been around.

-Noel

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Anonymous

I'm trying to do a search in the Reader forum. I kept getting results = 0. so I tried doing the Advanced search, setting the time to ALL, and choosing Adobe Reader for the forum. I searched for a word that I KNOW has to be there, like "help." It finds results in several OTHER forums, but nothing in Reader.

This seems pretty broken to me. I don't know whether to or .

What I searched for:

What I got:

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Yes, it is still broken, as of about 10:00AM PDT, April, 20.

Maybe fixed soon?

Hunt

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Anonymous

bump.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Still broken for the Illustrator forum.

Noel Carboni

Legend

It occurs to me we could turn this into a joke thread...

...If only the photo upload button were working...

...Ah, now it's working again.

Fair enough, so I tried different keywords, like it said...

Hm, seems quite accurate so far... You just have to search for the right things!

-Noel

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Anonymous

Try More Options and set the When option to All.

That worked for me.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Thanks for that tip.

Unfortunately, unless you happen to be searching for something that's fairly unique, the inability to limit the search by date still hobbles the usefulness an awful lot. Probably also kicks hell out of the server too, as it's searching a no doubt massive database dating all the way back.

Still can't find any users who enjoy using Jive software though.

-Noel

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Anonymous

The search is still broken. Is anyone working on it? Will it be fixed?

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Jochem van Dieten

Inspiring

It is being worked on. I have my doubts on whether it will really be fixed or if we will just switch one set of bugs for the next one, but don't expect any changes this week.

John T Smith

Community Expert

On 3-24 at about 9AM US West Coast time I did a search... and got results!

That does not, of course, mean the search will STAY operational

John T Smith

Community Expert

Many problems, read

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/820495?tstart=0

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Jochem van Dieten

Inspiring

It is probably broken: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3551379#3551379

mytaxsite

Inspiring

Jochem van Dieten wrote:
It is probably broken: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3551379#3551379

How come 6,000 spam messages broke almost everything? Are you guys telling us the truth or is there some serious security breached by the alleged spammer?

This is very serious indeed.

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shunithD

Inspiring

DWILCOX01 wrote:
How come 6,000 spam messages broke almost everything? Are you guys telling us the truth or is there some serious security breached by the alleged spammer?
This is very serious indeed.

Don't worry about it too much... the Forum side is completely separate from the business/commercial side... apparently

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