Re: Search in Private Areas

Posted by GregChapman on Apr 17, 2015; 8:15am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Search-in-Private-Areas-tp7594160p7594557.html

Hi Hugo,

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

The search engine does work in the private areas, but you have to search from there. In other words, go to a private area and try to search for a private topic. The search dropdown will be initially set to "Everywhere" -- please change it to "In <subforum-name>". The search should work, please check.

I've now done quite a few tests in various forums at various levels in the structure and, as you suggest, this seems to work reliably.

I understand that ideally the search engine should work from anywhere and should always display what the user can view, but this is hard to implement. The solution above shouldn't be an issue if you have one (or at most two) private areas in your forum. What do you think?

Currently, I do not have any forums where my users are likely to want to search in multiple private areas so, for the time being, it is not a problem, but certainly it would be better to allow a search across multiple areas.

I can get away with it because I tend to have only one private "chat" area in any forum, where people might want to search for historic entries. Any other private area in the same forum tends to be for reference material where topics are pinned into alphabetical order, making the need to search far less likely - and even if a search was required the user would know that what he wanted would be in that one "reference" area.