jumping to another page

[Pierre]

Am I missing it a simple way?

I am trying to jump to a page based on a certain date. I am looking for a post and I remeber the date but not the title or the name of the poster. Is there shortcut way or do I have to progress page by page till I get there? It can take a while if I am going back 30 or 40 pages. (or 200.)

Thanks.

[Hammer03]

The board uses URL's that are fairly transparent. For instance, this is the URL for a page of this subforum:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewforum/f,7/topicdays,0/start,200/

The last section, "/start,200/" is where it tells it what thread to start the page list (this was page 5 of 11 in this section, 45 threads per page). So, if you know you want to go back at least 150 threads, you can add 150 to the start number, which will give you

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewforum/f,7/topicdays,0/start,350/

voila! Page 8!

HTH.

[Pierre]

The board uses URL's that are fairly transparent. For instance, this is the URL for a page of this subforum:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewforum/f,7/topicdays,0/start,200/

The last section, "/start,200/" is where it tells it what thread to start the page list (this was page 5 of 11 in this section, 45 threads per page). So, if you know you want to go back at least 150 threads, you can add 150 to the start number, which will give you

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewforum/f,7/topicdays,0/start,350/

voila! Page 8!

HTH.

Thank you for your response. While this is a quicker way than scrolling page by page, it's still a shot in the dark. If I wanted to find posts of August 13th, I can try page 15 (I guess try around 600) and see where I land. I could have tried 6000 too. How far back is August 13?) Then go from there depending how close I got, and guess how far further up or down I should try for my next attempt and try again further forward or back till I hit it. It feels as if I'm playing battleship, or wheel of fortune or hangman.

I tried entering the date on the search and that did not work either. I get a bunch of results that won't match. And the result page does not show the original post date. It only shows the last post date on each thread. Yes it does give me a ballpark to shoot for but I still end up trying different posts and hope to get lucky.

I thought that maybe there was a straighforward way to enter a date and BAM, you're there and I could't find it. Maybe there isn't.

I do appreciate your reply.

Off-topic. If you're in Santa Barbara, you should come to one of our drives in Ventura. Next drive is the Turkey Run on November 29th. Watch the board for details and updates.

[Hammer03]

I'll keep an eye out, thanks for the heads up!

Only other thing I could think of for searching by date would be to use google, they now have time constraints that you can define and search within.