Browser issue Thread Prefixing Selection When Searching

[RobParker]

Affected version

2.0 Beta

When doing an advanced thread search the "any" setting for thread prefix is the default.

On iOS, if you select a specific thread prefix, "any" remains ticked as well as the prefix you specified.

On a related note, it doesn't seem possible to just search a certain thread prefix as you get the "Please specify a search query or the name of a member."

Say someone wanted to search for all confirmed bugs on here across all forums, it's currently not possible is it?

 

[Chris D]

On iOS, if you select a specific thread prefix, "any" remains ticked as well as the prefix you specified.

Unfortunately this is just how iOS multi select inputs work, so there's not really a great deal we can do here.

On a related note, it doesn't seem possible to just search a certain thread prefix as you get the "Please specify a search query or the name of a member."

Say someone wanted to search for all confirmed bugs on here across all forums, it's currently not possible is it?

Nope, it never has been. The prefixes are more of a constraint or a filter rather than something to actually search on. We find the results based on the search query / member, then we filter out any results where the prefix doesn't match those selected (roughly).

So for that to change that would be more of a feature suggestion.

(Marking as a browser issue on the basis of the first point).

 

[RobParker]

Cheers

So you don't have any way to search for confirmed bugs on here for example?

 

[Mike]

You can limit by prefix in individual forums (via filters or clicking the prefix).

 

[RobParker]

You can limit by prefix in individual forums (via filters or clicking the prefix).

Yep but there's no where that'll work across forums? I thought What's New might but that doesn't allow prefix filtering.

 

[Mike]

Not currently. That would potentially be worth posting as a suggestion.