I've been unable to successfully perform a search for all the posts I've made (so I can check back on things I've asked easily). Is this currently an option in litestep.net? if so, please some simple steps to do it... I've tried searching by author and last post but neither returned any results for mweier. thanky kindly.
we search content not authors...give me a reason to be able to search by author and I may consider getting someone to code it.
I need a better reason to retask a programmer.
it's the only reason I ever search by user on other forums - to find things I've posted & follow up on them. It can also be a useful way to search for other posts by an author whose advice you find particularly good. Having a link to all posts you've made within your profile is another approach many forums have chosen. Others have auto-notify by email options to let you know your post has been answered. It's definitely more challenging to stay on top of my posts here.
Devilboi - if you don't have programmers free to do this, I totally understand - I'm not trying to break your development track on ya. just thought I'd offer a useful feature request that we could all benefit from for if/when you have a chance for a programmer to try it.
An observation: You can only search for words in the original posts. Not the followups. Try searching for the word mweier and you get this post. Try searching for retask and you get nothing.
gieron - thanks for the tip - but it only found this thread because mweier appears in the body of my original post. it didn't find my dumbass gripe about cookies. Nor did a search in General find a thread I started there. Plus since sigs are stored elsewhere, I can't search for something that appears in my sig. thus this issue has formally attained back burner missing feature status (as well it should - I'm sure getting the LSDev & Docs sections working is far more important).
On the topic of searches, it would also be cool to have a search box available on every post page as well as the main forum page (not just on the sub-forum pages). Perhaps also a top nav allowing jumps to other sub-forums from any given post? would save everyone a click since there's currently no way to jump to another forum (aside from using browser back buttons and/or clicking to main forum page then the correct category).
It's easy to suggest stuff, but take it from somebody that knows, PHP ain't easy. You might think it's just a little thing like adding a bar on the top of the page, but that one bar takes a lot of code.
I doubt the forums are top priority right now anyway. Gotta get the missing sections up first.
If you can't remember what you post and you think you'll need to know it later on for some reason, make a log or bookmark all your posts in your browser. Your reason for the username forum search was so you could see if you asked a question already. Search the forums for your question. You may not have asked it, but someone else might have and there might be an answer. Searching by user just seems pointless.
mweier: Sorry if I was unclear. I only picked the word mweier because it was uniqe.
The point is that the only thing that seems to be searchable is the body text of the original post (i.e. the one that started the thread). Probably the thread title can be searched also (I haven't checked).
Notice though that I only say this in order to inform others about it. I don't mean to complain. As Mr. White says, there are more important parts of the site to attend to.
now now ppl ... just 'cuz it's not there now doesn't mean it's not ever going to be... just be patient. Right now we have other sections that need to be up and running and when those are done, we'll move on to other stuff.
For the time being, it looks like you're just going to have to live with it ... if it bothers you that much, volunteer your time and join the development team.
I too wanted to search for all forum activity by some user, and I appreciate the forums, so let me point out these bugs:
METHOD 1 (gives error: "Unknown table 'c' in where clause")
Go to the forum search page.
Search with keyword or username.
(Doesn't matter what you put in the keywords field)
Enter a name in the "Filter by author" field.
Search post replies
search now.
METHOD 2 (seems to freeze whatever script is executed)
Go to the forum search page.
Search with username alone.
Enter a name in the "Filter by author" field.
Search post replies.
search now.