Not a bug search title should mean ONLY search title

[Adam Howard]

When I check that little box that reads, search title, it really should only search the titles and not the post / resource contents.

The check back does after all read, "Search titles only"

 

[Jeremy]

How are you searching?

 

[Adam Howard]

How are you searching?

Best answer I can think of.... Odd / silly questions .... "How am I searching?" .... Using the search box, checking the box that reads, "search titles only"

How do you search? ...... Seriously, if there is a "secret" to searching....

 

[Jeremy]

There are two different search forms, both of which have the option.

 

[Adam Howard]

There are two different search forms, both of which have the option.

I am using the one in the screen shot above.

 

[Chris D]

Works as expected for me.

What are you searching for?

 

[Chris D]

So...

How do you reproduce this, @Adam Howard?

 

[Adam Howard]

So...

How do you reproduce this, @Adam Howard?

Here is 2 examples. The first shows to many false positives and the 2nd no results at all.

First key word was "ads"
Second key word was "apple"

Which should have turned up 1 results http://xenforo.com/community/resources/avatars-apple.510/

 

[Chris D]

Which should have turned up 1 results http://xenforo.com/community/resources/avatars-apple.510/

Which it does:

 

[Adam Howard]

Which it does:
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When it wants to.

There is nothing to debate here. It works when it want to.

 

[Adam Howard]

As I said, when it wants to

 

[BassMan]

Hm, works normal to me...

 

[Paul B]

I too am also unable to reproduce (and not for the first time).

 

[Jeremy]

Are you in a category when you try to search and fail? You'll notice the default is to search that category only.

 

[BassMan]

Are you in a category when you try to search and fail? You'll notice the default is to search that category only.

That is something I don't like to be checked by default. Like here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xf-quick-search-how-to-change-default-settings.62490/

 

[Chris D]

There is nothing to debate here. It works when it want to.

I'm not trying to debate anything. Just trying to get to the bottom of a bug that no one else can seemingly replicate.

 

[Adam Howard]

I'm not trying to debate anything. Just trying to get to the bottom of a bug that no one else can seemingly replicate.

Which one? The no results or all the incorrect / false positives?

There is 2 issues here.

Issue 1 -- False positives. For example, centOS install guide has nothing to do with "ads" and so doing a title search should not being that up.

Issue 2 - The no results found, when you know there is something to find.

 

[Mike]

1. Stemming makes "ads", "added", etc all be the same root word: http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php Nothing we can do about that really - incorrect changes are the nature of an algorithm based stemmer. The option is working correctly.

2. I can't reproduce the no results. I suspect it could be the additional constraint that has been mentioned.