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Does the search feature work or not?
Topic Started: Oct 7 2014, 05:43 AM (576 Views)
philshems
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Every time I run a search on my site I get "No Search Results" returned.

Looking at other posts it appears that the indexing isn't working, and hasn't been for around a year.

However, when I signed up to Zetaboards one of the things that attracted me was the impressive list search features on the http://www.zetaboards.com/features/

"Searching
Topic and Post search - Search can be forum-wide or limited to specific sections and time ranges.
Sortable Search Results - Sort by relevance or when the content was posted
Find All Posts by Member
Find All Topics by Member
Find Active Topics"

If the search feature is working, can anyone advise why my searches aren't returning any results? Am I doing something wrong? Have I missed something obvious?!

If it isn't working, and isn't likely to be fixed any time soon, then maybe the the features page should be edited to remove features that aren't actually available, so that we're not wasting your time asking why it's not working!

Many thanks in advance


Phil
Edited by philshems, Oct 7 2014, 05:49 AM.
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Jonathan
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Hi Phil.

Search does work, but indexing is currently performed manually which is why newer results are not appearing (So if you've recently registered a board, it effectively won't work admittedly).

There is a final bug which we are working on correcting to restore automatic indexing. This didn't make it to the last ZetaBoards Upgrade but is near completion. I will try and get an update on when it will be fixed.

The last manual index was about a month (Maybe two) ago.

Jonathan
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philshems
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Thanks for update Jonathan, and good to hear that it might be fixed shortly.

Cheers

Phil
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Helena
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Good news. :) Some changes have been made to the search feature and it should be working for everyone now and indexing daily. Please see this announcement:
http://if.invisionfree.com/topic/5203065/

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packmule
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As my board has aged(it's over eight years old now) I have found the "search" feature increasingly useful because of the larger number of topics(and posts) and my periodic scattershot short term memory. For me thus far no issues at all with the search feature.
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