Phuncz Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 I noticed that when you search, in a topic or in a/the forum, the results will always link to the start of a topic but not the message itself. This makes searching in large topics very hard and will result in more questions being repeated because of this. You CAN find the post if you click on the posters' name and hope that they haven't done much posting, so you can find it in his post history. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrooklynBorn Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 You can further search the topic also. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kipper Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Clicking the name of the topic takes you to the post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 If you are looking for a specific post, click the "advanced" text link instead of search. Click "search posts only". You should find your results are now linked to the post with the content that matches what you are asking for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phuncz Posted July 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 (edited) Thank you for the tips, but it doesn't seem to work. If I search inside a topic, it just mentions the first 20-30 words and the link is always the start of the topic. If I use advanced search, I can not seem to search for multiple words in one post, so it finds a lot of posts non-related and the results caps off at 200 posts. Edited July 25, 2010 by Phuncz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 I just searched for "jump to a post" using the search facility. Around 5-8 down it lists this topic. When I click on the link it takes me to this topic and jumps to your post above. Seems to work for me? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phuncz Posted August 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 (edited) Yes, but only to the first post. Would you like to help me with a test ? I've written a reply in a topic a while ago and it contained these exact words: "misfeeds and doublefeeds". If you can find it, using the search, without browsing through pages of topics, I'm apparently mentally ill and will proceed to better myself. I'll give you a tip: at the moment I'm on search results page 2. I tried and I can't get the without searching for it, there is no link in the search function that lets me hop to a specific post, only to the start of a topic which contains the post. Edited August 7, 2010 by Phuncz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kipper Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Trust me... You can. The '+' is added to narrow down the searches. Searching for this: Gave me this result: Do what it says and WHAMMY! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mat Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 (edited) Or you can click here, that's two links that will do it that you missed See highlighted button, took me straight to your post. Edited August 7, 2010 by Mat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phuncz Posted August 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 (edited) Well apparently the problem seems to be isolated as I'm not having the same experience as other users. I'm using the latest Firefox 3.6 release and this is what I get: As you can see, the title links to the start of the topic. And I don't see that arrow either, which I was looking for in the first place. I'm going to test disabling extensions in Firefox and deleting any cookies to find out what is causing this... EDIT: SOLUTION FOUND! Forum Results Display -> "Show results as a list" gave me the above problem, changing it to "Show results as a forum" fixed it ! I'm sorry I didn't find it earlier, it apparently never crossed my mind to check that setting. Thank you for all the help guys, it is greatly appreciated ! Edited August 8, 2010 by Phuncz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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