XF 2.1 How to use Search?

Mikethemix

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Is there a standard help text I can use to explain "How to use Search" for my users?
For example:
  • Does XF2 support boolean search?
  • What are the standard search expressions?
  • Are there example of searches including AND, OR and NOT?
  • Does it support wildcards? What are they?
I can't find anything in the manual or on this forum...

Many thanks,
Mike
 
Many thanks for the suggestion, yes we looked into that a few weeks ago, however that seems to require elastic search which our hosting provider tells us cannot be installed on our shared server.
The standard search seems to do a very good job anyway, I just want to know how to help our members to use it. Any tips?
 
Thanks for that.
However, this is what I've discovered from trial and error using the basic search:
  • search for alpha beta gamma finds posts that have all three words, in any order
  • search for "alpha beta gamma" finds that exact phrase
  • search for alph* finds any words beginning alph (ie * is a wildcard)
  • search with three or less characters fail
  • search ignores punctuation marks, treating the characters before and after the punctuation as separate words.

Are there any other search tricks I can learn from you guys? I am the amateur here:)
 
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