Possible change to default Forum Search settings.

[kcdonahue]

Steve and Rob,

Is it possible to change the "search previous" selection on the forum search page to default to the "Search topic title and message text" rather than the "Search message title only" that it currently is set to? There are way more pertinent details in the message body then in the title...

Maybe this change will help alleviate some the problems that some folks have when it come to doing a search.

KC

[tjones02]

Yes, I think that's a great idea! The meat is found in the body not the head... You can't judge a book by its cover...

Changing to the title and text and all instead of any is what I do all the time. I'd also change the other one to "Search for all terms" instead of any. I believe that changing these two defaults would greatly help decrease repeat questions including the"I couldn't find it in the search" problem. People are generally idiots and do not understand how to use the different search settings to their advantage.

The MyE28 site uses these suggested search settings as default and does it even one better (at least I think its better) they add in an additional Google search option.

http://www.mye28.com/search.php

[steve k.]

ok, made the change to select all both tytle and message.

also made some style changes fro better visibility

steve k.

[tjones02]

awesome, thx

[kcdonahue]

Thanks Steve!!

[InkaSteve]

I like the style changes...thanks