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Project Support => Support => Topic started by: fritzelly on August 23, 2018, 02:09:29 pm

Title: Searching
Post by: fritzelly on August 23, 2018, 02:09:29 pm
I'm not so sure the search works that well...or I'm doing something wrong
e.g. from this thread
https://www.boombeachforum.com/index.php?board=15.0

Searching for "Trader chest statistics" gives no results and that is trying with subject only as well. Without speech marks gives an unrelated thread

Is there some settings I need to adjust?

edit:
Ok I found the search settings - will have a play

Oh well setting up the index made no difference
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: Spuds on August 23, 2018, 08:49:24 pm
I just tried doing a search on this site for a topic subject that was 6 years old and it found it.   I tried what you showed above and it does not find it, so strange.

What DB engine are you using and what are your search settings?
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: fritzelly on August 24, 2018, 02:37:55 am
Mysql and set up a standard index in the search tools
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: Spuds on August 24, 2018, 10:14:54 am
By standard you mean a Fulltext index?   Also did you leave the options under search method unchecked?

Just trying to duplicate what you have so I can test.

Thanks
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: fritzelly on August 24, 2018, 02:43:44 pm
Was a standard index - will set a full text index to start when I leave for the bar in a while...
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: emanuele on August 25, 2018, 03:16:08 am
hmm...
search termshas results?found expected topic?
Trader chestyesyes
chest statisticsnono
statistics andyesno
and preliminaryyesno
preliminary conclusionsnono
Trader statisticsesno
Trader andyesyes
Trader preliminarynono
Trader conclusionsnono
chest statisticsnono
chest preliminarynono
chest conclusionsyesyes
statistics preliminarynono
statistics conclusionsyesno
preliminary conclusionsnono
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: Spuds on August 25, 2018, 11:02:26 am
Are those on this site or your test site ?   I'm not surprised on some of those results as the search terms are either short or would/could be part of a stop word list depending on what engine is being used.   However some of the results are surprising.
Title: Re: Searching
Post by: emanuele on August 25, 2018, 02:30:29 pm
It's on @fritzelly website.