The search functionality on this forum

Posted by 22111
Dec 29, 2018 at 11:19 AM

@forum-owner

In order to get some ideas of here’s on “Visual Outliner”, I tried the search for “Visual Outliner”, with the double quotes; I got an error message in the line of “not allowed”, in fact “character not allowed”, so a so-called “phrase search” isn’t possible currently. I then entered Visual Outliner and got 229 “results”, most of them allegedly - I hadn’t the patience to check this really out - for whole threads where each item is anywhere in the thread, even on different output pages, i.e. not even a “near search”. (I suppose “AND”, not “OR” here, since “OR” would have brought a 4-digit “result” list instead, I would think.)

Most developers are aware of similar problems and thus name their software in one word, but there is no “VisualOutliner” unfortunately; the same applies to some other software.

I suppose you have bought or do rent the search functionality for this forum. (?) - Perhaps there is some “phrase search” functionality just to be activated? (Don’t know, of course.)

(The other alternative for similar problems would probably consist of downloading the archive - but is it up-to-date? - and then put your respective desktop search upon it.)