Lack of interest Search Forums: pull Media Gallery posts (+Resource Manager criteria)

[beerForo]

Search Forums are a new feature in 2.2 but they currently only utilize forum threads.
This suggestion is to pull Media Gallery posts into the forum vie a Search Forum.
I feel like I am beating an injured horse (not quite dead) in regards to XFMG discovery, but I don't think this has been suggested yet, and XF has mentioned that the system is extensible. This would be AWESOME! A perfect solution really. Create a Search Forum for threads with a certain prefix, and pull in a certain Gallery category, etc. So the title is bold and bumped when it has new comments, but you click it and you are taken to the Gallery so you can comment and rate there. This is not about reading comments as threads, but simply using "Search Forums" as they are intended... a search result. Thanks!

I don't mention Resources above because those discussions are already forum threads which means you can already set up a Search Forum and include them. But I am sure it can be extended to include categories, prefixes of RM as well. So this suggestion is for both.

 

[CivilWarTalk]

Lumping resources in categories is great, but sometimes one category isn't enough, like if you have a resource library with books by subject, but you also want to categorize them by author, search categories would be perfect for that.

I agree with this suggestion, although I'm on the XFRM side, but still the concept is sound!