ThePythonicCow

Fred, in Post #4 of Upgrade Is A Value, had this to say on the upgrade:

The look is not the reason for the upgrade but the improvements to functionality that at first may not be obvious. For example, you may have noticed that as a Select member there are no more ads. Log out and look at the forums and you will see the ads are still there. The major benefits come later with the integration of the content management system and the forums is up and running in a few weeks.

For one thing, I'll be able to promote a brilliant Finster posting into an article that appears on the front page without an hour of hacking and pasting.

If you are so inclined, you can operate your very own Finster Blog inside of iTulip rather than the klunky Finster Forum we had before.

Want to embed a video? No more junky clunky media tags. Click on the insert video icon, enter the URL, and the system figures the rest out.

There are dozens of administrative improvements that you won't see but they'll free me up to so other tasks.

TPC, I knew you would be all over the blog feature. Question for you, have you tried to do any searches yet. It seems not to work too well. Try searching for something you know you wrote.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

TPC, I knew you would be all over the blog feature. Question for you, have you tried to do any searches yet. It seems not to work too well. Try searching for something you know you wrote.

I just tried various searches now; they all worked as I expected, whether searching just in the blog or across both blog and forum.

It looks like the previous limit on words of three characters or less still applies. No such short words are indexed by the search engine, from what my very very limited testing.

I've found I can search and find word I've used, but not if I search for them using my username. Also no option for posts only.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

I've found I can search and find word I've used, but not if I search for them using my username. Also no option for posts only.

I see at least three Search interfaces:

1. On forum pages, there is a white box and magnifying glass for quick searches.
2. Just below that one can click on "Advanced Search" and get two tabs:
   1. Search Single Content Type
   2. Search Multiple Content Types

The Search Single Content Type lets me search forum posts only, or blog posts only, and let me search for all posts by myself. Also on my iTulip homepage, I could find all my posts by clicking on "Find all posts."

Do you know a way to search for posts only. Say I want to find a post and I remember Total Money Supply was the topic, but probably not in the title. If I search I will find many many threads with many many posts.

No the search doesn't work. I searched again for something I posted and it could not find it.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

No the search doesn't work. I searched again for something I posted and it could not find it.

What exactly did you search for, which search interface did you use, what choices or options did you select or deselect, and what did you get for search results instead of what you wanted?

I'll need some specific details to be of any use. I know the search works, as I use it frequently.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

Do you know a way to search for posts only. Say I want to find a post and I remember Total Money Supply was the topic, but probably not in the title. If I search I will find many many threads with many many posts.

Searching for "total money supply" won't work very well, I'm afraid. I don't see any way to search for phrases. A search for "total money supply" will get any posts (or any threads, depending on how you search) which have all three of the words "total", "money" or "supply" somewhere in the post or thread. Well, it won't get all such posts, rather just the first 98 or 99 of them, depending on sort order.

In other words, from what I can tell, the Search works "as designed", however you might have to be a drain bramaged nerd to guess the design.

I know I had a post where I bet Ax that the Cleveland Browns would win over 5.5 games. Searched on Cleveland on Browns on Ax on over/under on sandbagging. Nada.

It's awful I never had this kind of trouble with the old advanced search. And you can't just see posts, you have to go through the whole thread.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

It's awful I never had this kind of trouble with the old advanced search. And you can't just see posts, you have to go through the whole thread.

I take it you mean this post: JPMorgan Sees V-Shaped Recovery on Robust Growth.

• Click on "Advanced Search".
• Click on the "Search Single Content Type" tab near the top.
• Choose "Show Results As: *Posts" to just see the posts.

I found your post linked above searching on "Browns", articles by "cjppjc". I could have searched for "sandbagging" as well. That post doesn't have "Cleveland" in it, so that would not have worked to find this post.

You can search for posts by "ax", but you cannot search for posts containing the word "ax" in their content, because the search only works on four letter or longer words (I can usefully search for "bull", but not for "cow" -- too short a word.) Apparently only the first 99 or so results are returned, so if your search has more results than that, you won't see them all.

Thanks Cow. You're the man.

Originally Posted by cjppjc

Thanks Cow. You're the man.

You're quite welcome.