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TDRAdmin4
Staff Member
1. VBulletin (the software TDR uses) has two types of search. "Search Multiple Content Types" search, which searches articles, blogs, group messages and posts. This is the default for VBulletin. However, this default isn't very good because it does not let you specify specific forums, etc. So I suggest you use the "Search Single Content Type" search. To get there, click the "Search" button on the top/left of the search without any search words, then click the tab labeled "Search Single Content Type".
2. Now once in Search Single Content Type, VBulletin also does something which may not yield the search results you're expecting. By default VBulletin search uses "OR" as a qualifier between when searching for words. So "leaky return line" gives search results for posts which match "leaky" OR "return" OR "line. " So you end up with a lot of results in some cases which may not be exactly what you're expecting. To make sure all words are matched, use the "required" qualifier which is the plus sign before each word. So, for example, if you want to search for posts with "leaky" AND "return" AND "line" you would put in the following in the search box:
+leaky +return +line
There's also the wildcard character *. So for example if you wanted to search for posts containing "engine", "engines", "engineering", "engineered", etc. you would put the following in the search box:
engine*
Hope you find these suggestions useful, VBulletin does not make it clear these are available, but they make the search much more powerful than the defaults.
2. Now once in Search Single Content Type, VBulletin also does something which may not yield the search results you're expecting. By default VBulletin search uses "OR" as a qualifier between when searching for words. So "leaky return line" gives search results for posts which match "leaky" OR "return" OR "line. " So you end up with a lot of results in some cases which may not be exactly what you're expecting. To make sure all words are matched, use the "required" qualifier which is the plus sign before each word. So, for example, if you want to search for posts with "leaky" AND "return" AND "line" you would put in the following in the search box:
+leaky +return +line
There's also the wildcard character *. So for example if you wanted to search for posts containing "engine", "engines", "engineering", "engineered", etc. you would put the following in the search box:
engine*
Hope you find these suggestions useful, VBulletin does not make it clear these are available, but they make the search much more powerful than the defaults.
