Search functionality comment - SOLVED

jankom · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2021 Posts: 389 Location: USA

I'm organizing my past postings marking them at the end of Subject field "- SOLVED" or "- CLOSED". However when I put "CLOSED" and my user name in the two search fields it does not produce the expected result.

If I put just my user name it does retrieve all my past postings. adding CLOSED or SOLVED should show those. I expect that Total(jankom) = Total(jankom, CLOSED)+Total(jankom(OPEN) + <still open>. If all were either CLOSED or SOLVED then <still open>=0 Is this correct?
If so, is there a way to use negating method, such as (!OPEN and !CLOSED) in oder to discover lingering past topics, to find out <still open> items?

jankom

John R. Graham · Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 8:45 pm Post subject:

Those words in the title of posts have no meaning whatsoever to the Forums software; they're just a convention we use. Also, alas it's not news that the Forums search functionality is weak. You can do somewhat better with Google by including "site:forums.gentoo.org -CLOSED" in your search term along with some other identifying terms.

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jankom · Guru Joined: 30 Aug 2021 Posts: 389 Location: USA

Thanks John. Understand.
Another SOLVED topic of my posts.

jankom (Janos = John in Hungarian)

John R. Graham · Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 9:32 pm Post subject:

You're welcome.

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 9:22 am Post subject:

jankom,

The forums has a knob for what you are trying to do, Go to your profile and click on
Find all post by jankom
It returns the most recent 6666 posts.

Feel free to test it in my profile if you like.
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