The new function added a few months back to search post titles only. IIRC this used to work, you could type a users name in and it would pull up all the threads theyve started, but isnt working now.

[Edited on 15-8-13 by loggyboy]

Seems to be working fine for me

Steve

It only shows the first post in a thread, so the search result will not include any posts in a thread that was started a while back... The old search function gave you every post from that user, which I found more useful.

its working for me too...

but if you don't get what you want then try google - just add this to whatever your searching for site:www.locostbuilders.co.uk and you'll only get results from this site

[Edited on 15/8/2013 by mcerd1]

Try searching for my username (in the username, not the 'search for' box). Select the 'match all words (Post titles only)' option - That should return all threads ive started, but it doesnt - for me anyway.

It worked as it should for me, 3488 posts that contain your log in

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Originally posted by steve m
It worked as it should for me, 3488 posts that contain your log in

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ok i think you've missed something here....


so you want all the threads you've started - rather than every post you've ever made...


the "match exactly (post titles only)" option is looking for post titles that 'match exactly' - so if you leave it blank its going to look for only blank titled posts that you've made
(and I suspect there is a bit of code that ignores blanks like that giving you zero hits)


what you want would need an extra option to search all threads started by a user (and/or all threads they posted in) - I've seen this option on some other forums (often next to the 'all posts' bit in the user profiles)



it the boss does fancy making more search options i'd say the 3 old ones (match any, match all, match exactly) are fine
but with the option of searching 'anywhere in the post' or 'titles only' as an extra modifier on all of them along with the existing modifiers of the user name and forum section...

I think searching for all threads stared by a user would need to be a different option all together - and the user profile is probably the best place for it

[Edited on 15/8/2013 by mcerd1]

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Originally posted by mcerd1
ok i think you've missed something here....
so you want all the threads you've started - rather than every post you've ever made...
the "match exactly (post titles only)" option is looking for post titles that 'match exactly' - so if you leave it blank its going to look for only blank titled posts that you've made
(and I suspect there is a bit of code that ignores blanks like that giving you zero hits)
what you want would need an extra option to search all threads started by a user (and/or all threads they posted in) - I've seen this option on some other forums (often next to the 'all posts' bit in the user profiles)

it the boss does fancy making more search options i'd say the 3 old ones (match any, match all, match exactly) are fine
but with the option of searching 'anywhere in the post' or 'titles only' as an extra modifier on all of them along with the existing modifiers of the user name and forum section...

I think searching for all threads stared by a user would need to be a different option all together - and the user profile is probably the best place for it

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