Searches

[Sapphire]

I made this suggestion in another thread but it's got a much better chance of being responded to if I make a separate thread for it.

I know that we can perform searches for certain words/users and within specific forums/threads. But the Today's Posts or New Posts searches automatically give results from the whole site.

Is there something that can be done to enable us to choose which forums show up in these searches?

[Aneklusmos]

I think there are forum ID numbers and you can put those somewhere too exclude those forums. Ant will do a better job at this.

[Sapphire]

I know it is possible as I have been on another forum that implemented it. I just don't know if it's something that's available on vBulletin.

If it is then I think it would be worthwhile implementing it here.

[Maverick]

You can exclude or include certain sub-forums by using these links.
www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=A,B,C
or

www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&include=A,B,C

A, B, C (and so on) are the forum ids you wish to exclude or include. So for example to exclude the announcements forum the URL would be:

www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=133

Make sense?

[Aηdy]

You'd do http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1299,18,96,35 For 'New Posts' excluding P101 ;)

[Sapphire]

Ant, how would I know what letter corresponds to which forum?
And how would that practically work?
I don't save my history so this would be a hell of a lot of effort just to see what has been posted across a number of forums since my last visit.

Those links (apart from the second one which didn't work for me) are helpful in demonstrating what the results would look like in both circumstances. But it doesn't help when someone wants to exclude forums with ease and certainty that they are excluding the right ones.

Andy, thanks and I appreciate that. However you are still left with the general questions/survey forum which is part of P101.

Tbh, I just want a way to be able to quickly and easily look over new posts without any puberty shit there.

[Aηdy]

Bah I cant get it to exclude general puberty :/ but anyway yeah..

[ShatteredWings]

carole, the a, b, c thing was an example
www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=133
new posts, excluding p101 (getnew&exclude=113 (113 being the p101 forum))

edit: wait wtf?.. that didn't work. Okay i'm confused now...

[Underground_Network]

There's a typo in Andy's link, this should work in excluding ALL P101 related threads, unless of course they're posted in the wrong area ;): http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=129,18,96,35

[Sapphire]

Thanks Adam, that works.

But still, I do not save my history. What am I supposed to do to quickly and easily exclude all P101 threads from appearing?

[Underground_Network]

An announcement with that link could be put in the shoutbox (you'd have to scroll down and click in the upper area of the shoutbox), but that would be a bit strange.

I'm sure Ant could put a quick link for that somewhere, because I'm sure many people would find it useful (this is referring to the link that excludes all of P101), but its up to him.