Search features

nomdeboardie

Hi boards admins/developers. A few observations:


(1) After all this time, the forums menu at the top of pages within forums still has a different format and organisation* to the ‘new’ Topics menu introduced for the home page.

*E.g. ‘Aviation & Aircraft’ is under ‘Soc’ in the former, but ‘Motoring & Transport’ in the latter.

Similarly, ‘Motors’ is accessed via ‘Rec’ > ‘Motoring’ in the former, but from ‘Motoring & Transport’ in the latter.


(2) The home page doesn’t have an ‘Advanced’ Search’ facility.


(3) A few of us asked a few years ago whether the search results ordering could be customised (in my case I almost always want to choose ‘Newest First”. I think the answer was that it would be considered. Maybe it’s too complex?

Thanks for reading

nomdeboardie

Dav

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Hi boards admins/developers. A few observations:


(1) After all this time, the forums menu at the top of pages within forums still has a different format and organisation* to the ‘new’ Topics menu introduced for the home page.

*E.g. ‘Aviation & Aircraft’ is under ‘Soc’ in the former, but ‘Motoring & Transport’ in the latter.

Similarly, ‘Motors’ is accessed via ‘Rec’ > ‘Motoring’ in the former, but from ‘Motoring & Transport’ in the latter.

I don't really know what you're getting at. The menu is generated automatically from the forum structure and a task runs every night to check for changes to the structure and it makes the updates automatically.

nomdeboardie wrote: »

(2) The home page doesn’t have an ‘Advanced’ Search’ facility.

Click on the Search button and you go to the Advanced Search - displaying all that Advanced info on the home page would be really clunky looking.

nomdeboardie wrote: »

(3) A few of us asked a few years ago whether the search results ordering could be customised (in my case I almost always want to choose ‘Newest First”. I think the answer was that it would be considered. Maybe it’s too complex?

Search definitely needs some work, we don't have a plan to get to it this year I'm afraid, but it's on the map for 2017.

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Thanks for reading

nomdeboardie

Thanks for the feedback. Come back to me on the Menu issue, that's cause for concern if it's not updating for you.

nomdeboardie

Dav wrote: »

I don't really know what you're getting at. The menu is generated automatically from the forum structure and a task runs every night to check for changes to the structure and it makes the updates automatically. Click on the Search button and you go to the Advanced Search - displaying all that Advanced info on the home page would be really clunky looking.Search definitely needs some work, we don't have a plan to get to it this year I'm afraid, but it's on the map for 2017.Thanks for the feedback. Come back to me on the Menu issue, that's cause for concern if it's not updating for you.

Thanks, Dav

Re the menu comment - I'm not sure it's worth pursuing further (would require multiple screenshots etc); maybe I don't really get how it's supposed to operate

I see what you mean now about the 'advanced' search link coming up after clicking a regular search from the home page - for some reason I either didn't realise or forgot about that every time I wanted to go directly to advanced (still a second click away, though)

Dav

I just had a thought... If you're using one of the really old unsupported skins, then you'll have a massively out of date menu structure because we're not supporting those old skins (and haven't been for several years now). You can check here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/profile.php?do=editoptions on the bottom of the page. Go to "Use Forum Default" and tell me if your menu issues persist.

nomdeboardie

Dav wrote: »

I just had a thought... If you're using one of the really old unsupported skins, then you'll have a massively out of date menu structure because we're not supporting those old skins (and haven't been for several years now). You can check here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/profile.php?do=editoptions on the bottom of the page. Go to "Use Forum Default" and tell me if your menu issues persist.

Thanks - turns out that's the case . Maybe I left it set to the old style as you can see a couple more thread links per screen on each forum page