Omegaman
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Join Date: 7/17/2006
Posts: 14
Location: UK
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Posted: 11/2/2006 11:28:31 AM
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No matter what I try I can't get the search funtionality to work on my site.
Am I missing something?
Plus I've just discovered that when I have the 'Latest Topics' being displayed on the mainpage the Latest Topics box is displayed but it doesn't display any of the new topics posted.
Any ideas,
Thanks
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grimmeissen
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Join Date: 8/30/2005
Posts: 656
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Posted: 11/2/2006 5:18:39 PM
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Are you getting errors when searching or is nothing being found?
As far as the Latest Topics box goes, one thing I can think of is your individual forums might not be set up to allow their posts to go to that box.
When you edit a forum, there is an option that says "Show Posts In Latest Topics Box?" If this option is set to "no" any posts made to that forum will not show up in the box.
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Omegaman
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Join Date: 7/17/2006
Posts: 14
Location: UK
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Posted: 11/2/2006 6:00:10 PM
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When searching I get nothing returned and I've made sure that it should return at least one result. It would be interesting to know how it works as this might help shed some light on what's wrong with my setup.
The latest topics issue, if the forum is setup for members only the topics don't show in even if you're logged in. Change it to all visitors and they show in the Latest Topics as they should.
Any suggestions welcome....
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rhasting
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Join Date: 1/9/2009
Posts: 13
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Posted: 2/20/2009 10:23:11 AM
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I am having trouble with the search feature as well. When I search, the system comes back with "There are no items to display." Is there any update to this?
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grimmeissen
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Join Date: 8/30/2005
Posts: 656
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Posted: 2/20/2009 10:58:43 AM
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The search is a whole word search, so the exact string that you enter must be in a subject or message body to be returned. Also, make sure the timeframe you have selected will definitely return results for your specified keyword.
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empkey2
Intermediate
Join Date: 2/20/2008
Posts: 74
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Posted: 2/20/2009 11:11:59 AM
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It should be agreed on that the search engine of DMG forums does not work well. I have tried with many query strings but got no results at all. I solved the problem by using my search engine with string alignment using dynamic programming algorithm, hence, the query string 'have took a look on' can be aligned with 'have taken a look on' by the way:
have t ook a look on
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have taken a look on
I will let it out soon :(
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sbealer
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Join Date: 12/20/2007
Posts: 17
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Posted: 2/20/2009 6:47:57 PM
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Quote: Quoted From empkey2:
It should be agreed on that the search engine of DMG forums does not work well...
I disagree. I just looked up the word 'this' on my site and the search worked fine.
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grimmeissen
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Join Date: 8/30/2005
Posts: 656
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Posted: 2/21/2009 4:05:48 PM
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I also do not agree that it does not work well.
What I will agree with is that it is a simple search. It was not meant to be an advanced algorithm. It does a basic string search to see if the string you submitted exists in the database. For that it will work every time.
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rhasting
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Join Date: 1/9/2009
Posts: 13
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Posted: 3/6/2009 10:47:12 AM
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Okay - I think I found what my issue is. The search seems to work fine except for topics that have security set to an "Allowed Users List." I removed FORUM_TYPE from WHERE in DMG.vb and compiled made the new dll and copied it over; however, the search seems to only show results from one forum. The other forums are not showing in the results. Any suggestions?
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jhendrix
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Join Date: 3/26/2009
Posts: 6
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Posted: 4/2/2009 8:50:52 PM
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I found that the search fuction will only search forums where the security is set to All Visitors. you can tell by trying to select forums from the search drop down menu. If you add security to the forum in any way, they become unsearchable. At least that's what I am experiencing.
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grimmeissen
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Join Date: 8/30/2005
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Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Posted: 4/3/2009 8:13:01 AM
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Yes, that is the case. The hidden or securitized forums have several issues like this. They won't show up in active/latest topics and they aren't searchable at this point. There are some code changes that can be made to make it happen, but it requires quite a bit of logic to allow them to be searchable and to also limit that search capability to only users that would be allowed to see that content.
Since this has come up quite a bit in the last few weeks I'll have to start looking into what it would take to get the security-enabled forums built into all of this functionality.
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