I think the search function is broken

[koleah]

I can't find anything in the forums for "tac" or "tac-one".

Just so somebody knows. Not sure how to report this officially.

K

[Frizzle Fry]

Tried both terms, didn't work for me either.

Searched my username, and the term "minimag" and came up with craploads of threads though.

[going_home]

This can only mean one thing.

[Beemer]

Works for me. :confused: Seven pages for Tacone search.


http://www.automags.org/forums/search.php?searchid=39109&pp=

[Bunny]

I wonder if it because they are 3 letter words.

[Bunny]

In the latest version of Vbulletin it made it difficult to search for 3 letter terms. The fix is to mess with a few database settings and I really don't want to corrupt automags.org database. :)

An easy way to search for terms such as SFL, mag, PTP, etc. is to add an asterisk to the end of the term. Using a truncation operator.

For example, searching the term "TAC*" It will retrieve entries for all posts containing the words: Tac One, Tac-One, TacOne.

Searching AO with no asterisk: "TAC"
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6823946/AO/AO%20CMS/AO%20Forum/Searching1.png

Searching AO with asterisk: "TAC*"
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6823946/AO/AO%20CMS/AO%20Forum/Searching2.png

We went from 0 pages to 13 pages worth of posts with some form of the word "TAC" in it. Not bad!

[Justus]

Good catch Bunny. I knew it had to be that the word is only 3 letters (some forums even give you an error report with that claim), but I didn't know there was a dirty workaround available with the asterisk. That will help a bunch.

[Laku]

In retrospect that's pretty logical as asterix is commonly used as wildcard in searches. Good catch Bunny!