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Forum Search Problem
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:31 pm
by W2QO-Jamie
Is there a way to search for VB-Cable in this forum?
The hyphen is ignored and VB-Cable is treated as two separate words. Then the VB is ignored because it is only two characters.
Putting VB-Cable in quotes doesn't work as the quotes are ignored.
Is there a secret to this or is it a case of you can't get there from here?
--Jamie, W2QO
Re: Forum Search Problem
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:28 pm
by w-u-2-o
There is currently no way to do what you want. It is possible to fix this, but I will have to work with the forum provider to see if they can set it up. More to follow if I can get this done.
Re: Forum Search Problem
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:21 pm
by W2QO-Jamie
OK, thanks for looking at it.
73, Jamie 2QO
Re: Forum Search Problem
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:42 am
by sv1jso
Try this: “Vb-cable”
Re: Forum Search Problem
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:19 am
by w-u-2-o
sv1jso wrote:Try this: “Vb-cable”
Did you try it yourself? I already know the answer, because it you had you would have found that it doesn't work. You also get all instances of vb and cable by themselves.
I have to get the web support team to fix a problem with the back end SQL database so I can change the search engine on the forum to one that will search for entire strings.
Re: Forum Search Problem
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:02 pm
by ea3aqr
No results found using an advanced search in Google for VB-Cable at Apache.labs site.
Just for reference, you can use Google to search keywords in one specific website using:
KEYWORD site:DOMAIN_NAME. In this particular case just use "VB-Cable" site:apache-labs.com
Hope this helps for future searches