Lazarus
Miscellaneous => Other => Topic started by: engkin on August 01, 2021, 07:43:58 pm
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I was looking for a specific forum thread, so I tried the following two words that should've located it quickly in the search box:
engkin jsontools
To my surprise there were no results! I switched to Google and used:
"engkin" "jsontools" site:forum.lazarus.freepascal.org
Again, no results. I eventually found the post but not by using the search box. It is a 2 months old thread and had a recent activity. I tried other search terms, including the title, none of that helped locating the post.
The title is:
JSONTools error while parsing
Are some of the forum posts out of search scope, maybe unintentionally?
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Put jsontools in the search box
Put engkin in the user box
There you are
Winni
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I was looking for a specific forum thread, so I tried the following two words that should've located it quickly in the search box:
engkin jsontools
To my surprise there were no results! I switched to Google and used:
"engkin" "jsontools" site:forum.lazarus.freepascal.org
Again, no results. I eventually found the post but not by using the search box. It is a 2 months old thread and had a recent activity. I tried other search terms, including the title, none of that helped locating the post.
The title is:
JSONTools error while parsing
Are some of the forum posts out of search scope, maybe unintentionally?
Hello.
Searching for JSONTools error while parsing on Lazarus forum I found this (see picture):
With this topic and [Solved]JSONTools error while parsing
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,54850.msg407759.html
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All there.
Some quick tests... it *appears" as if: Search only searches the body.
You can go to advanced search, it has a checkbox to include the subject.
If you want to match the person, then you also need advanced search, and fill in the field "by user".
And if you want it a bit faster, set the "message age" to max 300 days.
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Let me try again.
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How do I find that post using engkin and jsontools?
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Let me try again.
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How do I find that post using engkin and jsontools?
Yes, indeed, for good result, minimum 2 words are needed.
If you try with Search:jsontools error and By user:engkin, the post will appear.
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How do I find that post using engkin and jsontools?
Click either the "Search" item in the top menu or "Advanced search" in the "search" side box. Then ... a couple images are worth two thousand words? ;)
It should find the first post, though for some strange reason it seems it doesn't :o
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How do I find that post using engkin and jsontools?
Click either the "Search" item in the top menu or "Advanced search" in the "search" side box. Then ... a couple images are worth two thousand words? ;)
It should find the first post, though for some strange reason it seems it doesn't :o
Hum, here with Firefox, it appears only if Search in topic subjects only is enabled.
Strange, no?
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I had that checked but it returned only one of the answer-posts. I'm using Chromium but it shouldn't matter which browser you use since the search is done by the server. So yeah, strange.
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I had that checked but it returned only one of the answer-posts. I'm using Chromium but it shouldn't matter which browser you use since the search is done by the server. So yeah, strange.
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If you try with Search:jsontools error and By user:engkin, the post will appear.
It did not bring the missing thread, but it did show this one.
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It seems to me that if you do a "normal" search, it only search inside the content of the posts.
And if Search in topic subjects only is enable the search is only done in title of posts.
If it is the case, maybe add a warning "Normal search is in content only, not in title."
Or add also a checkbox Search in content only.
My, of course, 0.0000001 cent.
Fre;D
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If you try with Search:jsontools error and By user:engkin, the post will appear.
It did not bring the missing thread, but it did show this one.
If you enable Search in topic subjects only, the missing thread will appear.
It seems that search is exclusive, or in content of post (default) or in title of post.
Not both.
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How do I find that post using engkin and jsontools?
Click either the "Search" item in the top menu or "Advanced search" in the "search" side box. Then ... a couple images are worth two thousand words? ;)
It should find the first post, though for some strange reason it seems it doesn't :o
This as you show did bring the missing post. I just don't like the idea that the search results are not complete. Moreover Google search fails to find the missing thread. %)
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If you try with Search:jsontools error and By user:engkin, the post will appear.
It did not bring the missing thread, but it did show this one.
If you enable Search in topic subjects only, the missing thread will appear.
Yes, finally!!
Is this the intended behavior?
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No, idea. You need to check at the smf site. https://www.simplemachines.org/
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Put jsontools in the search box
Put engkin in the user box
There you are
Did you really get the missing post this way? Did not work on my side.
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If you try with Search:jsontools error and By user:engkin, the post will appear.
It did not bring the missing thread, but it did show this one.
If you enable Search in topic subjects only, the missing thread will appear.
Yes, finally!!
Is this the intended behavior?
Imho, like explained in previous post, It seems that search is exclusive, or in content of post (default) or in title of post.
But not in both.
I find it a little strange.
(But all is strange at the moment).
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No, idea. You need to check at the smf site. https://www.simplemachines.org/
Honestly, I usually use Google, only when it failed I tried with the search box.
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(But all is strange at the moment).
I had similar problems in the past and I assumed it was my memory failing me, not this time.
Thank you all for clearing my doubts, and helping me understand the limitations of the search box.
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DuckDuckGo
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DuckDuckGo
Thank you. Because of this, I'll probably switch to using them as my primary search engine.