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Offline Ghastly

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Help with Search
« on: March 07, 2008, 12:34:25 PM »
Help! Help! Help!  The WWIIOL forums had a feature that I used all the time - which was you could search for all posts within a time period by any of the game developers - it was a great way to stay on top of what the developers were doing.

We don't have that feature here, so about every 2 weeks or so, I would do a search for all posts by each of Hitech, Pyro, Skuzzy and Waffle over the last month or so to see what I might have missed with respect to the information the developers might be putting forth.

Now, with the new version, I can't figure out how to do you search for ALL posts by a particular user - if leave the text field blank, it won't search.  Does anyone have any ideas?

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Offline BlauK

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2008, 01:23:11 PM »
Also on the previous board one could search for all posts by one's username.
Now typing a username and "*" to searched word does not work at all.


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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2008, 01:28:54 PM »
did you click on advanced search ?

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2008, 01:40:44 PM »
Searching only by username in advanced search results as "Did you forget to put something to search for?"


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Offline JB73

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2008, 01:58:07 PM »
Ghastly, ever since the HTC home page (www.hitechcreations.com) was redesigned they almost never post news in the forum. Everything news related is generally put on the home page. the only reason a feature like the one you are asking for would be useful is for archived older news.


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Offline Ghastly

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2008, 03:07:09 PM »
No, it's not.  A lot of times the developers will answer a question for someone else or post something that if it's not of immediate application, is worth knowing for when you have the same or similar question or issue later.

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2008, 07:47:05 AM »
Ghastly click on my name for my profile. At the bottom is a line something like, show all post by this user.

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2008, 08:03:38 AM »
When things calm down, I'll ask Skuzzy to enable it.  On mine there is a suspicious space that probably would say something like that, but doesn't.

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2008, 08:59:01 AM »
When things calm down, I'll ask Skuzzy to enable it.  On mine there is a suspicious space that probably would say something like that, but doesn't.

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Guy


The link that says "Show the last posts of this person" shows all the posts from the person.

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Re: Help with Search
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2008, 08:29:57 AM »
Thanks Donzo !  I missed that part.  I thought it said last POST.

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