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March 18, 2011
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Is the forum search broken?

  • 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!

    9 replies

    rcraighead
    Legend
    April 28, 2020

    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.

    August 18, 2011

    Forum search seems to be fixed now.

    http://forumsearch.comyr.com/

    areohbee
    Legend
    August 18, 2011

    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

    Correct answer
    September 19, 2011

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

    July 8, 2011

    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
    July 8, 2011

    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
    July 10, 2011

    ~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

    April 20, 2011

    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
    April 21, 2011

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

    Maybe fixed soon?

    Hunt

    May 9, 2011

    bump.

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 14, 2011

    Still broken for the Illustrator forum.

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 14, 2011

    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

    April 14, 2011

    Try More Options and set the When option to All.

    That worked for me.

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 14, 2011

    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

    March 24, 2011

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

    Inspiring
    March 24, 2011

    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
    Community Expert
    March 24, 2011

    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
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2011
    Inspiring
    March 18, 2011

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

    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    March 18, 2011

    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.

    Inspiring
    March 18, 2011

    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