Awoke
28th November 2011, 05:42 AM
I have figured this thing out, and it works nicely.
First of all, the default settings take you to the "Search Multiple Content Types" search page, and the default selections are all blank, so if you enter a word and hit search, it will search in the areas you specified only. That is why people are not getting results back, because no areas are selected by default, so it searches in None of the areas.
So at the top on the left, I click the "All types" box. <-This will provide results
Then enter the criteria, keyword, username, etc
What I don't like is the way the results are show, which is only as thread titles, so here is what I recommend for performing a search:
Click on "Advanced Search"
Click on the tab "Search Single Content Type"
Click on "Search Type" and select "Posts"
I prefer my search results to be shown as posts, instead of thread titles, so I select that in the drop down menu, and I hit the "Save search Preferences - Go" button.
Now your template is set up.
Select your search criteria keyword, username, etc.
(This way you will have your preferences entered automatically from then onward.)
If you do it that way, you will get the results you're looking for, in a familiar fashion. Hope this helps!
First of all, the default settings take you to the "Search Multiple Content Types" search page, and the default selections are all blank, so if you enter a word and hit search, it will search in the areas you specified only. That is why people are not getting results back, because no areas are selected by default, so it searches in None of the areas.
So at the top on the left, I click the "All types" box. <-This will provide results
Then enter the criteria, keyword, username, etc
What I don't like is the way the results are show, which is only as thread titles, so here is what I recommend for performing a search:
Click on "Advanced Search"
Click on the tab "Search Single Content Type"
Click on "Search Type" and select "Posts"
I prefer my search results to be shown as posts, instead of thread titles, so I select that in the drop down menu, and I hit the "Save search Preferences - Go" button.
Now your template is set up.
Select your search criteria keyword, username, etc.
(This way you will have your preferences entered automatically from then onward.)
If you do it that way, you will get the results you're looking for, in a familiar fashion. Hope this helps!