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Title: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: feeutfo on 10 March 2009, 18:56:44
whats up with it? Trying to find my own topic so i know its there. Its to do with my rear subframe bushes failing the mot in Sept. But the search wont return anything from last year as far as i can see.

Any tips? Tried google but no joy.
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: stuart30 on 10 March 2009, 19:00:13
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whats up with it? Trying to find my own topic so i know its there. Its to do with my rear subframe bushes failing the mot in Sept. But the search wont return anything from last year as far as i can see.

Any tips? Tried google but no joy.

Maybe lost when TB fixed servers or something.... :-/
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: TheBoy on 10 March 2009, 19:18:10
No lost posts.

Key seems to be to pick some good keywords in the subject only
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: feeutfo on 10 March 2009, 20:40:26
just cut and pasted a Jan 08 title into the search and "no results" must be limited to a couple of months history?
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: TheBoy on 10 March 2009, 20:50:39
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just cut and pasted a Jan 08 title into the search and "no results" must be limited to a couple of months history?
i found one from Aug 06 earlier today...
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: hotel21 on 10 March 2009, 21:06:24
Search via google using omega owners as part of the search string.  Seems to work fine for me....

not yours, but a quick find...

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1212091537
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: feeutfo on 10 March 2009, 21:06:57
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just cut and pasted a Jan 08 title into the search and "no results" must be limited to a couple of months history?
i found one from Aug 06 earlier today...
Oh well, i guess there is nothing wrong with it then... ::)

Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: TheBoy on 10 March 2009, 21:17:51
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whats up with it? Trying to find my own topic so i know its there. Its to do with my rear subframe bushes failing the mot in Sept. But the search wont return anything from last year as far as i can see.

Any tips? Tried google but no joy.
a search for subframe in your posts in Omega Help made by you turned up

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1227822287/11#11

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1221256215/19#19

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1221728673/1#1

amongst others.....
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: feeutfo on 10 March 2009, 21:43:38
Thanks Jamie, ill post for the guy asking in general help.

How do you search your own posts/topics? And how do you search a specific section? Or do Admins get better features?
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: John Lewis on 11 March 2009, 00:36:35
Yeah this board has its limits but the pros far outweigh the cons. It would be a massive, risky and time eating job to go port it to something with a more expansive search like PHPBB3. A Google Search on this site should defo do the job.

Easy way to accomplish that without having to remember the code:
http://www.google.com/sitesearch/

 :y
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: TheBoy on 11 March 2009, 18:55:08
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Thanks Jamie, ill post for the guy asking in general help.

How do you search your own posts/topics? And how do you search a specific section? Or do Admins get better features?
Use 'Search Own Posts' option to find yours, and highlight only the section you want to search to limit to one section.
Title: Re: Berloody search option on this site.
Post by: TheBoy on 11 March 2009, 18:56:25
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Yeah this board has its limits but the pros far outweigh the cons. It would be a massive, risky and time eating job to go port it to something with a more expansive search like PHPBB3. A Google Search on this site should defo do the job.

Easy way to accomplish that without having to remember the code:
http://www.google.com/sitesearch/

 :y
I few convertors are available.  Trouble is with most phpbb derived ones is the number of security issues surrounding them.