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Anonymous

Question

Search a particular forum?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
April 6, 2009
2 replies
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Greetings,

when I am in a given forum, I need the ability to search that perticular forum; not the entire Adobe site and not all forums; just that particular one. How can I do that?

Thank you

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Anonymous

Here we. . . g o o o o o

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

miamitom wrote:
Here we. . . g o o o o o

I doubt anyone cares whether or where you're going.

Your post is gratuitously, provokingly confrontational.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

The drop down box solution isn't effective in this case. ... The default should be to search the forum you are in at the time, with the option to then search all.. this implementation is very user unfriendly.

Ditto. I hope the priority for fixing this is set very high. It took over 2 minutes for me to scroll the list of forums and search for "Search" in "Forum Comments" just to find this thread.

johnrellis wrote:
The drop down box solution isn't effective in this case. ... The default should be to search the forum you are in at the time, with the option to then search all.. this implementation is very user unfriendly.
Ditto. I hope the priority for fixing this is set very high.

Ditto. (Default should be current forum with subforums, checkbox option for all forums, and link option for advanced.)

Ditto to not user friendly and high priority.

I will also say that the small box and user unfriendly sort order for selecting forum in the "more options" search is what adds to the frustration of this poor initial implementation. The visible box is small so it is hard to scroll quickly/scan it, and the organization is like the old adobe forums list - an odd assortment of alphabetizing by "Adobe Premiere" and "Encore" etc. (I don't really recall the examples.)

The alpha listing on the main forum page in the "Product, Player, and Reader" forums is a great improvement and what I'd like to see here - meaningful alpha and drop down with enough vertical size to scan quickly. But that single list is only that area, and does not include this general forum, etc.

I wonder if separate forum/subforum selections is needed to make it easier to scan as well. The main forum page selection is only forums (correctly so), but a search needs to go to the subforum level. (And yes, that raises the sub-subforum level issue.) But putting subforums in the same list with forums invites more complexity than many users are going to be comfortable with.

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

Go to the Advanced Forum Search page. An easy way to get to it to it fast is to leave the search box at the top of this page blank and hit ENTER. That will take you to the advanced options page.

Or you can bookmark it: http://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa

Once there, click the tiny green arrow for More Options. It's pretty straight forward.

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Anonymous

Thank you for your reply.

It is helpfull, but it does not do what I need. If you empty the search box and hit enter, it performs a search for "search forums" anyway, even though the search box was empty.

If you follow the link:

http://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa

you are obviously no longer on the forum page that you want to search.

This question is still open and will hopefully get some attention from Adobe.

Searching a given forum is minimal fumctionality that should be in place, before the forums become usable.

Ramón G Castañeda

Inspiring

Read my post again. Follow the instructions. [http://forums.adobe.com/thread/414764]

The "More Options" button let you choose the freaking forum, good grief!

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