New Forum Help Major search problem

[ban-all-sheds]

How does one search for a phrase?

I tried searching for "plan a", and what I got was:

Search Results for Query: "plan a"

1. The following words were not included in your search because they are too short, too long, or too common: a

I do sincerely hope that the problem is I've not used the right syntax to search for a phrase, and not that the search facility on the shiny new forum is broken and not fit for purpose.....

 

[DIYnot]

No it is an indexing problems. It was one of the issues that was discovered during testing. There is a list of stop words, not indexed because of the frequency with which they appear. I believe this is the standard list:
"a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by",
"for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it",
"no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such",
"that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these",
"they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"

As I mentioned elsewhere the new forum search has yet to be reindexed properly since the changeover and this is one of the things that should be dealt with during a complete reindex. At the moment posts are added to the current 'test' index but with the old initial setup.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[Belboz]

Works fine when you put in 'Plan A' which is how I would expect the term to be written....

 

[DIYnot]

Works fine when you put in 'Plan A' which is how I would expect the term to be written....

I think that is more fluke tbh, it just happens to be a recent result with 2 occurrences of the word 'plan' so it scores well. The fact 'plan a' is highlighted in the result is down to the highlighter function rather than the search.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Is there going to be some logic to the ordering of search results?

The old system was a mare and next to useless unless you could think of a combination of words that would inherently limit the results.

Bering able to sort by date and filter by poster/user would be an epic leap in functionality. Unless of course it already has that feature and I have never realised.

 

[DIYnot]

Bering able to sort by date and filter by poster/user would be an epic leap in functionality. Unless of course it already has that feature and I have never realised.

You could do that with the old one , you can do it with this one too:

http://www.diynot.com/diy/search/?type=post

You have poster filter / title or title and body /newer than (date filter) / sub-forum filter / order by relevance or time.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Tah muchly. Funny how I never managed to sort that one out.