Forum Search method has been changed

[Opus4]

The search method used by the forum has been changed... hopefully for the better.

I need to look into finding better info about what can be done with the new search type before posting that, but I at least wanted to mention the change so people could try it out. I noticed you can search for longer property names now.

- Andy

[Opus4]

A little more info... you can now do boolean full text SQL searches. Some notes:

• If you search for a series of words with spaces between them and not within double quotes, the search will find results containing any of those words, as if there was an OR between each one.
  
  
• You can use AND to indicate a term is required, same as using + in front of the required word: +word or AND word.
  
  
• You can use NOT to indicate that a term must not be included in the search results. You are supposed to also be able to use - in front of the word to exclude, but it doesn't seem to work, so use NOT: NOT word
  
  
• You can enclose a phrase in quotes to find that exact phrase: "search phrase".
  
  
• You can end a term with * to find wildcard matches.
  
  
• The shortest word for searching is 3 characters.

I'm sure there are other search tips, but those are the main points.

- Andy

[lotusvball]

Originally Posted by Opus4

[*]The shortest word for searching is 4 characters.[/list]

- Andy

Is this a change. I can see this could potentially cause problems when searching for terms like NAS or QAM.

[Opus4]

Yes, it was previously 3 and I've been looking into confirming if it is really 4 and how/whether we might change it back to 3.

- Andy

[Opus4]

Update: we figured out how to change the min search term length to 3, so searching for something like QAM now works again. The info in the 2nd post was updated to reflect this change.

- Andy