Why is the search box always using the entire site for the context of searches? What happened to the drop-down to specify the context? Doesn't it make more sense to set the context of the search to match your location in the site? If I'm in Public Forums > General Any Topic and want to search...

Hi, I am just curious what the reasoning beyond a decision to have two separate fields - one for text search and another for tags search? From the end user perspective would not it be easier to use one single field, for example if somebody searches the word 'blog' then search results include...

Hi, I was wondering, does the Search look through the Article pages, or only the blogs/forums/etc? My search currrently does not lok through the Article pages. Is there an ption or config file I have to edit somewhere? Thanks

I agree that this is an issue, but I don't believe that an efficient fix will be easy. Display names are currently stored in extended attributes for users, which are in a format that is not readily searchable. We have implemeneted display name searching for at least one client if not more. I'll...

Currently, our development build of CS 2008 has a little search box on the top right that searches everything (same as here on dev.communityserver.com). What happened to the drop-down menu to select a scope roll-up, as in if you're browsing Blogs, to only search blogs? I've followed the steps...

I have installed Enterprise Search in Community Server 4.0.30417.1769 version using cs_es_3_0_20523.msi MSI installer . I have followed all the steps to install it. But the Telligent.Tasks.Service is not indexing anything.Its creating a 1 kb segments file in searchindex folder.Its not resetting IsIndexed...

I am having a problem getting any results back when doing a search on the forums using keywords. Here is the code I am using: IndexPostQuery query = new IndexPostQuery(); query.ApplicationTypes = new ApplicationType[] { ApplicationType.Forum }; query.SectionsIds = new int[] { ConfigCommunityServer...

The following returns the latest 20 posts, not those between the StartDate and EndDate: Imports System.Text Imports cs = CommunityServer.WebServices Partial Public Class _Default Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Protected Sub Page_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs...

Is the wiki search working? I have been search terms in the wiki without any results?

Since the upgrade to CS2008.5 i've noticed the following error in the Event Log. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks Andrew Error in search job task : .ctor : System.IndexOutOfRangeException: FavoritesShared at System.Data.ProviderBase.FieldNameLookup.GetOrdinal(String fieldName)...

This is happening to me too. I can barely search for anything now without getting the error.

cnsanford, I'll go with #1... there's no change to any code that needs to be done here. simply delete "deleted posts" from db fixing the problem for this site. this is a setting/job that needs to be configured/run by the site admin, not a code change or bug fix. if you purge your...

Community Server provides you with a simple way to search your blog for blog posts as the number of posts increases. Procedure From the Control Panel Dashboard, click on Select a blog to manage in the Manage My Blogs section. The Select a Blog to Manage page displays. Enter...

Community Server allows you to search for members with flexible search criteria, such as user name, email address, and last post date. Procedure Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > System Administration > Membership Administration > Manage Users. The Manage Users page displays. ...

The browsing user functionality allows you to get a list of users in your community based on the criteria you specify, such as user role, date on which they joined your community, and user status. Procedure Navigate to the Forums main page or to a forum. Click on the View all users link in...

hi, is it possible to search using regular expressions or some fuzzy search texts

Hi, I'm using the method Tags.GetPostsMatchingTags(). The function returns a collection of IndexPosts matching the tags that I asked for. The problem is that the Property "PostCategories" of all of the elements in the collection is null. Is this a performance related feature or should...

The Blog Search Form widget displays a form for searching the Weblog. This widget is not supported for group blogs. Procedure 1. Add the blog search form widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify the widget properties. Style Tab...

The text search feature allows you to search your community's posts and pages for information about a specific topic. The search text box displays on every page of the community. You can enter a word or phrase in the text box and hit Enter or click on the magnifying glass icon in the text box...

The following information provides you with suggestions to help you with a search. Terms and Phrases A query is broken up into terms and operators. There are two types of terms: Single Terms - a single word such as "test" or "hello". Phrases - a group of words surrounded...

Ok, don't laugh too hard at me... Because of hosting reasons, I am unable to run ES on CS2008.5 SP1. What I would like to be able to do is to search for a specific number (eg. 1.2.3) with the periods in between. When I perform the search it returns every post. I know it is a query format...

On this site (and our CS2008 site) when you go to a user profile page and click on their # of posts, you get taken to a search results page, with the search box filled in with the search query that produced it: But on our CS2008.5SP1 site, that search box comes up empty. Our developer said: ...

I don't know exactly, but my guess is that this site is running Enterprise Search. I've just added Enterprise Search today, and now I get the same "userid:1111" box.

Besides looking at communityserver_override.config, is there any way in the Control Panel that you can see if the site is running ES?

Erik P. Ernst I don't know exactly, but my guess is that this site is running Enterprise Search. I've just added Enterprise Search today, and now I get the same "userid:1111" box. Are you running CS2008.5 SP1 ? We believe SP1 has changed the behavior of Enterprise Search...