D Wood Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Does anyone else find the Search function on this site utterly useless, or am I not using it correctly? No matter what term you put in, you get screeds of responses which have nothing to do with what you are searching for. For instance, type in circular window. You'll get maybe thousands of results, but none of them will be about the topic you want, certainly not on the first pages. I can't believe that no-one has ever, ever posted about circular windows, but apparently not! Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) I completely agree that the forum search is utterly useless. Instead use Google to search the forums by means of a site: search operator. To search for circular window on the forums, I would Google the following: circular AND window site:techboard.vectorworks.net Using the Forum's 'Advanced' Search is better - still not very good - but you have to change the date range from its useless default of 'Newer than 1 Week(s)'. I can't wait for the Search to be replaced! Edited June 30, 2015 by rDesign Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Funny I type in "Circular Windows" and I get 8 results. Add quotes just like in Google to be specific. No offence meant but GIGO. Edited June 30, 2015 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted June 30, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 30, 2015 It is awful. It will be completely replaced. Quote Link to comment
jmartinarch Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 thank you. I have felt the same way and I know i post a lot of dumb questions that have been answered in the past, but finding them is almost impossible. The " " do help though! Quote Link to comment
Elite Exhibits Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 On the same subject ... has the search in VW Help been "fixed" ? - Peter Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 2, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 2, 2015 The search in the 2015 Help is much improved, completely different from the search in the Help apps from 2014 and earlier and the technical writers are able to correct issues on the fly if you're using the online help and not cached local help. Quote Link to comment
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