Search function improvements
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Suggested improvements to the Search function in regard to the File Cabinet:
- When the search criterion is a phrase in quotation marks, search for the exact phrase. Our members expect this since it's a standard for search engines.
- Allow searching within a particular folder or sub-folder of the file cabinet.
- Allow more options for sorting the search results (name, poster). It's not clear what "relevance" means.
- Search the text contained in standard file types (Word, PDF, Excel).
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Hi Rebecca,
We appreciate your feedback. We have disabled certain areas of our site from searching because we are planning on redoing search. I am not sure when this will take place. Here is what we know about search today:
Regarding profiles:
* Search locates members' profiles when searching on a phone number or email address.
* Search does not return any results when searching on terms from within the members' "Bio" section
Regarding File Descriptions and File Content:
* Searching works reliably when selecting terms from the "File Descriptions."
Search returns results for the correct files, tested under both the "File Cabinet" and "Everything" filters.
There is currently a lag time for only newly added files or a file you just edited. This does not affect existing files that were not just edited. The lag time could be anywhere from minutes to up to 24 hours depending on the background jobs that are being processed on our site such as recent activity updates etc. You also could experience no lag time at all which is usually the case.
Search works correctly both when terms were entered with all lowercase and lowercase/uppercase mixed
Search does not return any results when searching on content from within documents.
Other areas of the site such as the summary page and discussions still pose a problem.
We have added your comments for consideration when redoing search.
Sincerely,
Celeste Sharper Wooten
Groupsite.com
Director, Client Services/Support