| Using the Search Function [message #1821] |
Tue, 21 October 2008 20:35 |
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 Black Bear
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Registered: September 2008
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If you want to find posts about a certain topic, or all posts by a particular forum member, this is remarkably easy. Click on the little magnifying glass that says "Search" up in the main menu bar of the forum. You'll get a field where you can enter a keyword or words--say, for instance, "Bunnies." You have the option of searching every single message on every thread, or simply searching for thread titles with the keyword "bunnies" in it--that's controlled by a button you can click below the place where you enter the text. You can choose whether you want it to search all forums, or just a particular one--if you knew the post you were trying to find was part of the Blog Post Comments, you could limit it to that by clicking that window and scrolling down to select the proper forum. You can sort them by how recent the post is, or filter by member--if you know the bunny post you're looking for is by user SuperAwesome123, you can limit it by that member in the blank on the right. (Remember that usernames are caps sensitive--black bear won't work, you have to type Black Bear if you want posts by me.) Then click the button marked search, and you'll get a list of all the posts that fit your search request.
If you're interested to see what a particular friend of yours has posted on the forum, you can click on their username (in a post, or under "members") and look at their profile. Under "message count," there's a link for Show all messages by this user. If you click that, you'll get a tidy list of everything that person has ever posted on the forum.
Hope this is useful!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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