Why does the forum search default to posts rather than topics? Why is it not possible to save a search preference? I find the display of results as posts rather than topics really frustrating.
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Puzzled Greatly
, Jun 02 2012 10:03 AM
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 04:47 PM
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 09:34 PM
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Not so, no explanation for the change was given in that thread so I started a new one.
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 10:23 PM
There is probably no explanation other than it is the default setting when installing this version of the forum software. IF you were using IE (your not) you could easily create a ahk_l script that would toggle the setting for you automatically. Of course you could even do better and not use the forum search but Google and simply add site:www.autohotkey.com or autohotkey as keyword. The results are probably a lot better anyway. I'm sure the site owners saw the other thread. But there are other things to do (like copy the code more easily to name but one) Good things come to those who wait
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:38 PM
Thanks, if the default setting can be changed it wouldn't take more than five minutes for the site administrators to do so. I think the change would be welcomed.
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 06:51 PM
To select "Topic titles only", you could use this Greasemonkey script: (Tested in Firefox)
// ==UserScript==
// @name AHK Search Topic Titles
// @namespace http://www.autohotkey.com/community/search.php
// ==/UserScript==
var z = document.getElementsByName("sf");
z[2].checked = true;
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 11:31 PM
Thanks for the code. I'll consider using it but am not very keen on installing a whole extension just because of one site, especially when the site administrators could fix the problem in a moment.
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 10:42 AM
What if others like the way that it is?
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 10:49 AM
How likely is that? Most of the time one searches for threads and not for posts.
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Morpheus
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 11:14 AM
I prefer posts, but I do agree that the preference should be saved for each user.
