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Search in forum not usable

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:12 am
by mzenker
Hi,

normally it is good practice to search in the forum before asking questions.
However, very often a search query gets rejected with a message like the following:
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: plot gui vector
(In this case I really want to know how to plot a vector's contents using the GUI)
I participate in another forum using the same software (phpBB) where this never happens. A quick internet serach reveals that there is a "common words" threshold which has the effect to reject search terms contained in, for example, more than 5 % of the posts. This threshold can be changed (increased, in this case), and then a rebuild of the search index solves the problem.
Could someone of the administrators be so kind and look into this...?

Thank you,
Matthias

Re: Search in forum not usable

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:20 am
by ted
Thanks for pointing this out. Search customization settings appear to have been lost during a recent software update.

Re: Search in forum not usable

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:52 pm
by ted
Search should work even with "common" words now.

Re: Search in forum not usable

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:34 am
by mzenker
It does. Thank you!