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#1 2014-01-29 08:34:02

hippieben
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Search within a thread?

Maybe I'm just blind, and I swear I've done it before, but I cannot seem to find anyway to search within a thread.  Am I just having a major brain fart, or can this not actually be done?  Thanks.

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#2 2014-01-29 08:45:32

jasonwryan
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Re: Search within a thread?

There is an option to search the "message text" which is the thread. Is that what you mean?


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#3 2014-01-29 12:30:05

karol
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Re: Search within a thread?

If it's not a common word, like 'From' or 'Registered' - which appear next to every post - just use the 'Search on page' function of your web browser. You can set you display options to 75 posts per page (it's the maximum) in your forum profile to make it easier.

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#4 2014-01-29 16:17:01

hippieben
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Re: Search within a thread?

jasonwryan wrote:

There is an option to search the "message text" which is the thread. Is that what you mean?

That still just brings up a list of threads rather than a list of messages within a specific thread

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#5 2014-01-29 16:17:31

hippieben
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Re: Search within a thread?

karol wrote:

If it's not a common word, like 'From' or 'Registered' - which appear next to every post - just use the 'Search on page' function of your web browser. You can set you display options to 75 posts per page (it's the maximum) in your forum profile to make it easier.

Not really practical when a thread is 200+ pages long.

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#6 2014-01-29 16:18:43

karol
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Re: Search within a thread?

Have you tried selecting 'Show results as' as 'Posts' rather than 'Topics'?

hippieben wrote:
karol wrote:

If it's not a common word, like 'From' or 'Registered' - which appear next to every post - just use the 'Search on page' function of your web browser. You can set you display options to 75 posts per page (it's the maximum) in your forum profile to make it easier.

Not really practical when a thread is 200+ pages long.

Which one is that? What is the phrase you're looking for? Have you tried using Google for this?

Last edited by karol (2014-01-29 16:20:04)

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#7 2014-02-19 20:02:19

vokuro
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Re: Search within a thread?

This would be a helpful feature for multipage threads. Even with 75 posts per page, the bspwm thread is still 15 pages long. Slickdeals.net (and others, this is just one example) has a search this thread tool. Included a screen shot for reference.

ShnZz5Y.png

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#8 2014-02-19 20:04:22

hippieben
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Re: Search within a thread?

vokuro wrote:

This would be a helpful feature for multipage threads. Even with 75 posts per page, the bspwm thread is still 15 pages long. Slickdeals.net (and others, this is just one example) has a search this thread tool. Included a screen shot for reference.

http://i.imgur.com/ShnZz5Y.png

Yup, I think this thread has turned into a feature request.  The current way of searching within threads is very cumbersome.  Other forums handle it much better.  In fact, arch forums are the only ones that I've come across where this is not an easily accessed feature.

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#9 2014-02-19 20:12:17

karol
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Re: Search within a thread?

Is it just Arch Linux forums or any other that uses fluxbb forum software?

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#10 2014-02-20 05:12:51

hippieben
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Re: Search within a thread?

karol wrote:

Is it just Arch Linux forums or any other that uses fluxbb forum software?

I can't answer that, as Arch's forums are the only fluxbb forum I have used.  Hopefully someone else can.  I suspect that it's universal to fluxbb though.

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#11 2014-02-20 05:17:34

x33a
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Re: Search within a thread?

hippieben wrote:

Yup, I think this thread has turned into a feature request.

Indeed, and you are better off making this request upsteam. Arch uses vanilla fluxbb.

hippieben wrote:

I can't answer that, as Arch's forums are the only fluxbb forum I have used.

Well, I have seen at least crunchbang forums use fluxbb. You may go there and see if this feature is available or not.

Last edited by x33a (2014-02-20 05:20:39)

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#12 2015-09-06 10:37:11

nishantvarma
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Re: Search within a thread?

Has this been addressed? Can we search within a thread in the forum?

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#13 2015-09-06 14:53:37

ewaller
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Re: Search within a thread?

Yes. Karol posted the correct answer in post #6.  Here is a screen shot of my system http://i.imgur.com/kNxcRrN.png.   Of course, I've an extra option tongue


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#14 2015-09-12 21:52:47

nishantvarma
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Re: Search within a thread?

Thanks, appreciate ewaller! Google works pretty decent on the forum as well.

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#15 2015-09-12 22:25:43

ewaller
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Re: Search within a thread?

nishantvarma wrote:

Google works pretty decent on the forum as well.

Unless you are looking for Topics Going Nowhere, Dustbin, or off Topic hmm


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#16 2015-11-29 00:22:39

Ian Kelling
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Re: Search within a thread?

ewaller wrote:

Yes. Karol posted the correct answer in post #6.  Here is a screen shot of my system http://i.imgur.com/kNxcRrN.png.   Of course, I've an extra option tongue

No, this is not solved. That does not limit your search to a single thread. Since someone suggested asking upstream, I have asked at http://fluxbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=61499#p61499

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#17 2015-12-01 13:42:57

Ian Kelling
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Re: Search within a thread?

A workaround:

curl the pages into a single file and search it. just alter the end of the url as below where 1-20 are the pages
For example:

curl -s 'https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119473&p=[1-20]' | less

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