Search the forum for user's posts

[venik]

When I search (by user)  for posts that I KNOW are there, the search feature of this forum fails to find them.  How come?

[Eddy]

Search is working fine for me.
Are you sure you are using the right keywords?
Is the username spelled correctly?
Correctly selected match all words/match any words/match as frase?

Can you give an example?

[techie101]

Eddy,

Don't wish to disagree with you, but my "search" does not work either.  It never has.  I can't even find "me" !  

Other searches work ok, but not when I search for a user post.

Got me puzzled.

[Lisandro]

Match as phrase?

This feature does not work all the times...
It's erratic  

[venik]

I participate in several fora that use the same software, but only in this one have I encountered the failure of searching for a USER post.  I tried to use it in the most straightforward way: I typed "venik" and got no hits, even though I could find them by hand.

[Eddy]

You need to enter a keyword also. Just the user name isn't enough.

Hint: Use only the letter "e" as keyword will do

If you are looking for posts from a user do it through their profile.

[inthewildteam]

You need to enter a keyword also. Just the user name isn't enough.

Hint: Use only the letter "e" as keyword will do

If you are looking for posts from a user do it through their profile.

I fully agree with Eddy's instructions.  My isp uses a transparent proxy and sometimes fetches "stale" web pages, but the search function always works here although the results might not be completely up to date unless I manually force a page refresh.

Quick edit!  "Always works for me" instead of always works here  

[DavidR]

It works ok for me, providing as you put something in the Search For: window e as Eddy said, will be in every post. Then the only problem is getting the By User: (username) correct.

A case in point being Eddy, because that is his Screen Name and not his Username.

To find a correct username, you need to click on the screen name which will display the user profile, which will show the username for a search.

One advantage of opening the user profile is you can display the last n (n being a variable number you can select) posts by the person. So you may not need to do a search.

[darkparrot]

At the moment it works for me, but has been on and off in the past. Try to make your search more less specific.