Search Improvements | The Coffeehouse

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

Spent a little time adding some other parameters to the search page (fixed a bug too) and the changes are deployed as of this morning.

You can now narrow your search by:

User
Date range
Content type (just forums or c9 content)

I don't think we're done with search. There's more to be done, but it's a start.

http://channel9.usertaskforce.com/view/3

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Thank you for telling us about improvements. You should do this more often. Sometimes I notice something has changed on the C9 website, but I have to guess about new features.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

Good job on the search.

(Can't.. resist... feature.... request.....)
If there is no search term, only username, could you pull up the last 10 posts by that author?

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to sushovande

#Apr 6th @ 10:53 PM

Possibly. I'll keep it in mind.

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to TommyCarlier

#Apr 6th @ 10:42 PM

Sure thing. Since I've been working on little small improvements here and there, I'll try to let you all know. I believe I let everyone know about thread title editing when I did that one, right? The other one I did isn't visible to you all (thread locking UI and perma-ban UI).

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to HumanCompiler

#Apr 7th @ 1:22 AM

Nice additions!

Bug: 01.12.2009 = 1/12/2009 ... since these are only two textboxes I entered the date format as I'm usually typing it and Channel 9 didn't convert it properly.

Second bug: Search text = *, User = littleguru, Start date = 1/1/2004, End date = 1/1/2005, Searching Channel 9 Forums: Our Apologies
Something has gone wrong with your request. We have logged the error and will try and fix it as soon as we can.

Is it possible to not enter a search text and only search all the posts by a user? Right now you need to enter a search text.

giovanni
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In reply to littleguru

#Apr 7th @ 2:44 AM

+1 for ony search by user only. Thank you for the improvements, search is very important.

Typhoon87
Facilitator of our reality

In reply to giovanni

#Apr 7th @ 2:54 AM

I requested this in the feedback form a couple of months back its awsome to see this.

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

In reply to Typhoon87

#Apr 7th @ 9:29 AM

If there was another way to see all the posts by a user, say their profile, would that work?

I know you can see threads started by that user now but if we added a "all comments by this user" to that page, would that help?

jamie

In reply to littleguru

#Apr 7th @ 2:44 AM

or "by thread title only" - not all the body texts of 30k threads

cool though.

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to littleguru

#Apr 7th @ 2:44 AM

We're just doing a DateTime.TryParse so only dates that .NET can parse will work. Might get a date dropdown or something in the future so it's not as much of an issue, but we'll still just turn it into a date string that gets parsed so you're at the mercy of .NET DateTime.

Yah, search term is required right now. I'll see what I can do about that, but as Sampy mentioned, you could always go to their profile for now.

jamie

In reply to HumanCompiler

#Apr 7th @ 10:39 AM

re - search by thread title...

in most cases - this would be faster?

example -" i want to post a music video - what was the name of that radio thread? - searches" radio"

- current result: every single time the word radio was ever mentioned in the coffeehouse
- title only result: The Radio (thread)

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to HumanCompiler

#Apr 7th @ 10:39 AM

DateTime.TryParse very much works depending on what culture is set on the server. I imagine that it is en-US. It would be nice to have a date picker because right now you need to know the internals to do a proper search by date!

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to jamie

#Apr 7th @ 10:50 AM

Agreed. That option would be nice (to search by title only). We also discussed changing the ranking of the search results so the word "radio" being in a title would make it more important than one that mentioned "radio" in the body. We'll investigate.

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to littleguru

#Apr 7th @ 11:28 AM

Yup, we'll probably add a date picker to fill in the textbox for you and that'll make it easier. You're all devs so I'm ok with you having to know that right now it's doing a DateTime.TryParse with the default culture (probably en-US) until we figure out something better. You're smart people. Smiley

You couldn't search by date at all before. Wink