johnmeyer
when you click the search icon there is an option that drops down that says advanced. If you go in there you can do a more detailed search. You can search titles only as well as by members and all. Try that and if you need more help PM me and ill assist.
Thanks for that help. I have been using the Advanced search feature all the time. Here is what that looks like:
Now, here is what a standard "vBulletin" advanced search dialog looks like:
Note that in most other forum software you can look for threads with more than a certain number of replies, i.e., the "popular" threads (you can also do the reverse and search for threads with only a few replies).
While the drop down for "Find Threads with" is not shown in the screen cap, you can also sort the results by a huge number of criteria, including:
- Relevancy
- Title, Number of Replies
- Numer of View
- Thread Start Date
- Last Post Date
- User Name
- Forum
You can search by user name in both forums, but the better forum software lets you search on only part of a user name. This is really useful if you remember that one of the most prolific members, "Bear," posted something that you want to read again. But, if you enter "Bear" as the search term and press Enter, you will get no results. Instead you have to either enter the correct name, or select it from a drop down list that appears when you start typing. The drop down sometimes works, but if you only remember the middle part of a name, you won't get it and since the drop down list doesn't scroll, you only get a few of what may be dozens of partial matches.
By contrast, in vBulletin (and most other forum software) you can enter "Bear" and you will get posts which include "Bearcarver," which is the person you are trying to find.
In other software you can find posts
started by a certain person, not just those in which the person participated. Using Bearcarver's posts, this is really useful because he has created some posts (like his epic salmon post) that I have revisited many times.
So, I was hoping to find that some of these features were hidden, or that they could be easily added, but it appears that is not true.
