Sorry to complain, but the Search Facility isn't working... I couldn't search to see if anyone else has brought this up already.

For instance if I want to find the thread with How To Do Smilies and I know it's entitled Smilies and I search for it in the Forum search box, it doesn't come up... actually nothing at all comes up and I'm sure there have been a fair few threads with the word Smilies in them.

Plus, when it was working it only gave you one page of results and there must be more than one page for some topics. I know we all fell out a while ago about keeping old threads and one of the main arguments for keeping them was the fabulous resource they were... so it would be great to be able to use this resource.

Oh and another thing... (sorry) when you put the threads in the Lounge and PM in Author name or Thread title name order, to try to narrow your search, it only does it for the first page. When you click page 2 it's back to Most Recent Activity, which can be a pain sometimes if you knew who started the thread the information you're looking for is in... am I making sense here????

Is there any way to fix these things? Or maybe you already are and I'm slow on the uptake?

This has been going on for a while now. Thanks.

You're right. I just tried to search and got a blank page. I'll email DB, if you like. In the meantime, I saved a copy of how to do the smilies (not the link to the thread) so I could post them here... would that help?

Dee

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testing owner edit

Ah Dee thank you very much...duh, should have mailed David instead of starting up a thread!!!

I keep forgetting the smilies but I've learned to look at the first page of this Forum and they're still there, but thank you. I used them as an example because they were an easy one to test for. I was really looking for the discussion about Mary Wesley's biography that I knew we had talked about ages ago... but nothing comes up for that, or anything else actually.

No probs. I've emailed DB and I'm sure he'll let us know when it's fixed.

Dee

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testing owner edit...

thanks for pointing this out. The search 'catalogue' somehow got emptied, it's repopulating at the moment, so the search should start working again now. Eve I'll have a look at the other problems you mention tomorrow
Thanks again (;

Thank you Dee and David, exceptionally efficient as ever

Hi eve - I think the problem with ordering on subsequent pages in the forums is fixed now. Give it a try.

Doh, 'Owner edit' is playing up again.


- NaomiM

It's working for me, Naomi. Have you spoken to DB about it?

It seems to be an intermittant fault, Dee - it wasn't working last night, worked this morning, happened again this afternoon, and is ok now. I've told DB, so fingers crossed it'll be fine - I can't live without Owner Edit

Gawd, I know...

Doh, it's happened again - on S&O group.

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oh, it's working again.

Thanks David, works a treat now

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and the added is working for me... still can't find the Mary Wesley thread though!

I don't think it is working. I just tried searching for Mary Wesley and it came up with this:


Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.

/forum/forum_search.asp, line 204

Yes, I got that - I thought it just had a problem with me getting frustrated and asking it all different ways. And, if you search for Smilies you get lodas of results but not the thread named Smilie - interesting!

Maybe it's just catching up with itself.