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It would be useful if, next to each search box, there were a question mark (or something like that) which, when clicked, opens a FAQ page for search functionality (e.g., your tip about how to search for nearby terms).
Driven to the ARMs by x86.
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Hi Matthew,
Thanks for responding to my complaint. It would be nice to have some documentation on how to correctly perform searches here on the site. Unfortunately the search terms you are suggesting appear to return zero results when the terms are in the title:
"Options Dialog"~3 C++[^]
I did some minor testing with the Lucene syntax[^] and discovered that this seems to work better:
title:Dialog +Options[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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the reason you got no results is that you had the "Search Within" option set to "Title". Try setting it to "All Fields".
Matthew
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Matthew,
Wow... amazing... obviously I want to search by title. I expected the 'title' or 'description' selection in the combo box would achieve this. Searching by 'All Fields' will return large amounts of irrelevant data when the engineer wants to search by title or description. In addition...statistically the amount of article sentences that contain both the terms 'dialog' and 'options' will be much greater. An example:
"Speaker John A. Boehner and the Congressional leadership began a dialog this week to discuss options for extending the NASA budget."
Obviously the hypothetical article containing the sentence above would be irrelevant for a software engineer searching for a title or description containing 'Dialog' and 'Option'.
Searching by title and description simply does not work:
By description: "Options Dialog"~3 C++[^]
By title: "Options Dialog"~3 C++[^]
-David Delaune
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A simple search on Options Dialog in the title seems to work fine for me:
Options Dialog (in Title only)[^]
Including the "C++" in the title search was causing the search to return no results because there were simply no articles that had "Options Dialog C++" in the title. Remove the C++ and results pop up.
One thing we can do to resolve this is to guess at what you mean. If you type in words, we look for words. If you include the name of a tag (such as C++) we can remove that from the title search and instead add it to the set of filter tags in the given search. The issue is see here, though, is that it will no doubt cause issues when someone keeps getting titles of articles that don't include the tag name, but which is tagged with that name, and so keeps being returned.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris,
Thanks for the feedback. I see that searching without the 'C++' tag does indeed return some results. One of the biggest problems we are having here in the office when using the search engine is irrelevant data. I really miss the ability to filter by language. We typically use the 'C++' tag to filter out the articles pertaining to other programming languages.
Some random thoughts:
Perhaps add a brief description[^] of how to perform advanced searches using your site syntax.
Maybe a second edit box in the advanced search page for 'Filter By Tag'.
Perhaps an advanced in-query search filter such as tag:C++ or maybe [tag]C++
Not sure if your suggestion of auto-magically removing tags from the search query would be a good idea. There are many tags that could be considered search terms.
Thanks for looking into this.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
[EDIT]
Chris, actually I just noticed that using Tag:C++ already works but it appears to ignore the combo selection and instead searches all fields.
Options tag:C++[^]
modified on Monday, July 11, 2011 3:21 PM
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'll make a note to add some more indepth documentation.
Hey Chris,
Have we made any progress on the search documentation? It would be great if you could add some basic Lucene syntax comments on the search page in that huge blank area. Are you guys using a vanilla installation? Or did you guys implement any custom term modifiers?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I've given the server a kick and your feed has been downloaded.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Cool. Thanks Chris.
Silverlight 5 Tutorials : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
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I'm getting IO error on web23 server when submitting an article.
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
modified on Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:36 AM
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One of our machines died overnight which meant that our file sync system was throwing errors while trying to hit that machine. All good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris,
Your "updating the site, back in 2 minutes" page image isn't loading.
No big deal I know, but its still broken!
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Thanks mate. I'll get it fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hey All. I had a bit of an itchy trigger finger on the report button this morning.
I reported this[^] user because he asked the question and answered it himself in a way that looked similar to what some of the sock-puppet users do, however once I actually thought about it I realized that I jumped the gun a little bit and shouldn't have reported this user. Is there any way for us to remove our reports, or would you guys have to do it?
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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I've remove the report.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks, Chris.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Marcus Kramer wrote: however once I actually thought about it I realized that I jumped the gun a little bit
You must take training from JSOP.
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Good thing I don't carry a loaded gun, then... 
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Your gun isn't loaded? Never mind, I'm sure she's very understanding.
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Conversely, it's a good thing that I *do*.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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 An unloaded gun is just and awkwardly shaped club.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Ansering this question how to make our site secure : all banking sites do :using https:[^] I used the UK currency symbol as in £250. The preview was fine, but the answer as submitted had the sterling symbol prefixed by an "Â" character: "£250". I have edited the question to use text instead.
Low priority (it's not as if anyone uses money often in Q&A), but if you are looking at the Q&A processing code could you have have a quick look?
Ta!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Its not as if anyone has any money to use for more like! Credit crunch and all that!
ps. lend me a tenner till pay day
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