A suggestion for the 'filter' box

Subject: A suggestion for the 'filter' box
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 10:18 AM

Wasn't sure whether this belonged in the main forum or the help forum - so I've posted it to both - apologies if this duplication annoys anyone...

I've no idea as to how difficult this would be to implement, but if it were possible it would be helpful to me.

At present you can filter over various periods of time for thread titles. I'd find it really useful if you could do the same thing for the name of a poster.

I realise you can use the drop down menu to find everything ever posted by anyone, but when searching for a long term contributor, this sort of search can take an absolute age.

A couple of times recently, I've wondered whether certain contributors were still around, and at this time of year, they may well be on holiday.

A quick and simple way to see if they'd posted within the last week or so would be really useful.

Ed

Subject: RE: A suggestion for the 'filter' box
From: Giac
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 11:32 AM

Maybe I'm confused, but when you click on someone's name to see all of their posts, isn't it already in reverse chronological order? When I look for my posts, that's how they appear, the latest first, etc. As usual, I've probably missed the point. If so, sorry. ~:o)

Subject: RE: A suggestion for the 'filter' box
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 11:40 AM

Giac, I posted something about this in the Help Forum. What would be very useful is a filter so we could look for messages by contrubutor or subject keyword AND dates. Such as:

Search for contributor "Mergatroid" FROM 1-Jun-00 TO 30-Jun-00. We wouldn't have to request the search engine to look for all of Mergatroid's posts, only the ones for that month. Likewise, if you knew there was a thread with "rubber ball" in the title, and it was sometime in Jan or Feb, you could only look for those dates.

Subject: RE: A suggestion for the 'filter' box
From: Pene Azul
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 04:50 PM

Improvements to the search features are on the wish list.

Thanks,
PA

Subject: RE: A suggestion for the 'filter' box
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 05:06 PM

Pene,

Your wish list? or Max's?