Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#1423 closed defect (worksforme)

Forum quicksearch doesn't search staff forums

Reported by: vts Owned by: Brian Stempin
Priority: Nice to Have Milestone: Website / Forum
Component: Website / Forum Keywords:
Cc: Brian Stempin Patch:

Description

After the forum upgrade, the quicksearch button on the top right seems to search only in public forums, even when logged in a staff member. As a result, threads from the staff forums cannot be found using the quicksearch form. The advanced search page will still find threads from the staff forums, but it's rather confusing and non-obvious to have to use a separate search page for this.

To reproduce:

  • Observe that searching for 'Walls' with the quicksearch won't find the thread called 'Walls' in the staff forums :o)

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Brian Stempin, 12 years ago

Owner: set to Brian Stempin

comment:2 by Erik Johansson, 12 years ago

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce this. Are you sure the quicksearch isn't set to "This forum" and you're in another forum?

It could be because of me being an administrator, but I can't see any settings related to the quicksearch at all, and definitely not any that limits which forums to search in (that doesn't say there aren't any though, sometimes things are weirdly named/related to things you don't expect them to be).

comment:3 by historic_bruno, 12 years ago

I just tried searching "walls" from the main forum page and indeed found a few topics in the staff subforums.

comment:4 by vts, 12 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

Just tried it again, and it works now. I'm pretty sure I didn't have the wrong settings before, because I got the same results as I get now but without the 'Walls' thread. Not sure what changed, but regardless, this can be closed :)

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