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BraindG
17-01-2011, 12:15 PM
Dear Club VR4,

We will be making some changes to how the forum search tool functions, these include.


Allow searching for 3 character words (i.e. AYC)
Boolean searching will become available.


This change will be performed around 10am 18th January, there will be a short outage of 10 minutes followed by a potential slow down in performance for the remainder of the working day.

Thanks
Cvr4.

Beastlee
17-01-2011, 12:58 PM
Excellent, acronyms are great but make search a pain. The 3 letter search will be a godsend on here!

foxdie
17-01-2011, 01:01 PM
3 letter minimum search AND boolean searches? (that's the joke.. it's a poor one)

You're spoiling us :)

BraindG
17-01-2011, 01:30 PM
The Boolean search is a zillion times better, we can now narrow down searches to exactly what you need - /hi5

Colin Wiltshire
17-01-2011, 08:02 PM
Whats a boolean search?

Beastlee
17-01-2011, 09:00 PM
It's when there's not enough letters to go with the spaces, to protect the search engine detonating you get sentence cut.....it makes you feel like /wall when it happens

Sorry /pan

It allows the use of AND / OR / NOT and perhaps NOR search controls.

BraindG
18-01-2011, 12:46 PM
Change Completed.

We have compiled an thread to assist with the new searching features, this can be found here.

http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?54862-HOW-TO-Use-Search-%28members-only%29

Thanks all and Happy searching.

foxdie
18-01-2011, 12:50 PM
Typical example, you can search for the following:


ayc AND lights NOT pump

That'll (in theory) dig up all the AYC threads relating to the dashboard lights and not AYC threads relating to the pump.