Is the forum search broken?

[Guest]

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?

[Phillip M Jones]

Try this instead:

[the_wine_snob]

Looks like a portable rugged rubber baby bumper to me, but what do I know?

Hunt

[D Zurn]

Finally a practical suggstion!

[areohbee]

Its working now - thanks to Adobe for fixing.

[the_wine_snob]

Wow! That is good news. I had not even bothered to look.

Thanks for the H/U.

Hunt

[excited_Genie16B8]

Its working now

Not entirely.  For whatever asinine reason, we cannot limit the initial Search to a specific forum, so search results show up for every forum that has that term.  We have to go into "More Options" in order to limit the search to a specific forum.

That part seems to always return zero results (despite results for the desired forum showing up in the initial global search).

[areohbee]

Yep - problem confirmed. I guess I was too quick in my original assessment - dang!

[Guest]

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]

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]

~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

[Guest]

I checked the Jive website and see that Adobe is evidently several major versions behind.

https://community.jivesoftware.com/message/718508#718508

Would an upgrade fix the problem? What can we do to encourage Adobe to upgrade?

[John T Smith]

See #4 here http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875724?tstart=0

No date, but an upgrade is promised

PS - that link to Jive's forum shows Jive 4.5.3

Hopefully, Adobe's upgrade will BE to that latest version

[D Zurn]

Every month or so when I need to check something in the forums, I still run into the stupid completely-broken forum search.

Since there is no demonstration that Adobe can do anything about it, and will apparently never fix the search/never upgrade their forum software, then Adobe should remove the "search this forum" box from the web page and live with the well-deserved universal complaints.

[John Hawkinson]

Forum software is scheduled to be updated by two major versions next month, and it's my impression that it is in testing now. So let's hold off judgement?

[Guest]

>hold off judgement

Hi, sorry but a company producing software products that require

intensive user care and that is not able/willing to repair their forum

search engine for half a year does deserve judgement over this in my

opinion. I repeatingly lost time using google with limited success, or

simply not being able to research problems in the forum at all.

[Claudio González]

Not upgrading the software driving these forums in two and a half years is a very bad signal from a company such as Adobe that is constantly urging users to update/grade their products. However, they are going to upgrade it in the very near future, so I would think that, at this time, it is only fair to wait for the outcome of this upgrade instead of continuing repeating complaints that many of us have been posting since the beginning.

[Guest]

Forum search seems to be fixed now.

http://forumsearch.comyr.com/

[areohbee]

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

[Guest · Accepted solution]

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

[rcraighead]

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.