Searching conversation content

Big Train James

Western Thunderer
What the title sez.....does anybody know if it's possible to search in conversations rather than forum threads? I don't see a way to achieve that. If I start a search from the top right corner while in a conversation page, I seem to end up back searching the forums instead of the conversation I'm currently viewing.

Jim
 

adrian

Flying Squad
Actually looking into it a little more - it seems like searching your own conversations is built in to the system on the latest release, no addon required - it's one of the new features introduced. There's a couple of other new useful features so I'll run a few tests first but it might be a forum software upgrade is the better option.

Thanks for the feedback and query.
 

Big Train James

Western Thunderer
If you have titled your private conversations is that not enough info. as each conversation is listed under your own PM's ?
In theory, yes. In practice, the conversation in question runs to 43 pages currently, covering a mélange of topics and correspondence dating back several years. The forum conversation tool is the typical way I communicate with several members on WT, for better or worse, so conversations often run into multiple pages and cover different topics. I suppose we could all use email instead, but that's not the chosen path at the moment. Or we might be on Whatsapp except for my reluctance to use it.

Jim

Because conversations - including your own - are classed as Private Messages they are not indexed by the Search tool and thus they are not included in the Search function so no-one (including you!) can search them.

Dave
This makes sense, but thinking on it a bit more my intuitive thought is that the same code that establishes the status of a conversation as private could be used to drive or qualify search results. Which sounds a bit like what Adrian suggested for the query filters.

It sounds like Adrian has found a way forward and a change to the search capability may be possible. Thanks to all for the replies and to Adrian for implementing any potential updates.

Jim
 

adrian

Flying Squad
It sounds like Adrian has found a way forward and a change to the search capability may be possible. Thanks to all for the replies and to Adrian for implementing any potential updates.
It is definitely possible - it just needs the software upgrade so it'll take a few days to implement, trying it on the test area first, then I prefer to do a full site backup before I roll out the update to the active forum.

Thanks for raising the query - it's not an issue that I'd struggled with but I can see how it'd be useful so the feedback is appreciated.
 
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