The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: Semper Gumby on March 09, 2009, 12:07:50 PM

Title: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Semper Gumby on March 09, 2009, 12:07:50 PM
...get a decent search out of this.  I'm trying to help some one -- I know we have covered the topic before, I search but all that comes up is stuff on the first pages of the forum.  I can't get stuff that is buried deeper in the past.  I had to go looking for it myself and then I can't link to the past page in the new post. (It doesn't show up in the address box up top whch stays as http://www.bmwr65.org/ al the time?

Help! (I'm just a shade tree R65 mechanic not a Starship engineer)   ;)
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Justin B. on March 09, 2009, 12:57:38 PM
Click on the search tab and change the default time period to something other than one week.  If you want to know the exact link to something put the mouse over the link, right-click, then select "copy link", and paste the link wherever you choose.  At least in the Mozilla browser variants, I refuse to use IE...
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: nhmaf on March 09, 2009, 02:02:31 PM
.. and, if there are hyperlinks in old thread messages that point to the old forum threads: eg. http://www.r65.org/something_or_other you need to change it to be http://bmwr65.org/cgi-bin/something_or_other and it will then work in the new forum

Note: there is no section called "something_or_other" so don't try the above examples literally.
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on March 09, 2009, 06:51:17 PM
NOTE:  Skip to the bold and the bottom notes, before reading all this junk...



Semper Gumby,

I have been researching this, because I just did it the yesterday (at home, on I.E., because Firefox is not stable on my current motherboard...:()

When I attempted the same thing today (at work), on Firefox, I could not get the "Properties" option to come up with a link... (more :( ).

So I logged on to I.E., performed the search, found your post (#10), and clicked on the header (link to your reply), opening up the original post (not the search result).  I then right-clicked, checked Properties, and there it was.

I don't know what is wrong with Firefox.  It should be smarter than that.

What Justin suggests above is fine for links, but not for what we are discussing, here.  (A link to a specific post.)

Here is the posting I made on Boxerworks that I did yesterday:
http://www.boxerworks.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=252749&t=252737


On Firefox, to get this information, I right-click on the post I want to link to, then select "This Frame ->", then "Open this frame in a new tab".  
The address field in the new tab will have the posting-specific address you need.


Not to complain, but I'm suspecting another little glitch in the new forum software.  

And I go back and try it all again, after posting this, and the damn thing worked...   >:(

http://www.bmwr65.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1230862729/10#10
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: msbuck on March 09, 2009, 07:23:57 PM
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..get a decent search out of this.  I'm trying to help some one -- I know we have covered the topic before, I search but all that comes up is stuff on the first pages of the forum.  I can't get stuff that is buried deeper in the past.

I'm with Semper Gumby on this...I tried a search the other day and I know all about changing the time frame.  All the search came up with was posting since the update - nothing from the earlier version.  I'm wondering if there is something with the upgrade that is not allowing the search engine to get back into what was brought over....

Maybe someone else can check it out as well and see what results they can get.

-------ok, I tried it again and it did go back into Dec. 2008, but it limits your results to only 15.  I don't see any way to get back farther- in other word do another seacrh from that point back to keep digging deeper until I find what I want.  I mean there's some really good stuff years back.  How are we supposed to find that with a search?
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on March 09, 2009, 07:34:54 PM
I just got good results while searching for "Honda Moly 60".

Also, yesterday's search for Bob Roller's post took me back to Nov. 2007...
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Justin B. on March 10, 2009, 01:04:16 AM
OK, I changed the max number returned on search from 15 to 200 and did a search on "all posts" for "splines" and came up with 140 some odd hits.  Hopefully this value will suffice as I can't find any way to NOT set a max of some kind...
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Semper Gumby on March 10, 2009, 09:59:55 PM
Thank you Justin and All.  I will endeavor to follow your instructions.  I'm good with hardware but software sails over my head.  (Took me many-many installs of iSpell before I figured out how to use that little nugget)   :o
Title: Re: Hey Justin How do I ....
Post by: Semper Gumby on March 10, 2009, 10:06:38 PM
Ah it works!!

http://www.bmwr65.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1236566304/2#2

"Copy Link" in internet explorer after Right Clicking the target link.

(Old Dawg learns new trick)

MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!!       8-)