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[wise grimwald]

I have been looking for a way to search the forums and cannot find one.

Am I blind, or hasn't that bit been added yet?

[Ponce de Leon]

It's just above all the forums. You can search for topics with your last posts, subscribed topics (whatever that means) and recent posts topics. As well as language (it's the gray bar just a bit above this topic, and above "Forum Home >> Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 >> Baldur's Gate General Discussion (No spoilers allowed)



You can also type in a word to search... but there is no smarter way to search I'm afraid (which I know at least.

[miss_daydream]

Right at the top of every page there's a search bar. Next to the 'jump to' and language drop-downs.

Edit: also know as, what d-l said.

Modifié par miss_daydream, 23 juillet 2010 - 06:27 .

[wise grimwald]

Thanks.

I found it just before you replied, but it doesn't seem to work.

I was looking for info on the Saerileth Romance as I was concerned that it might be broken after her sad demise.



I typed in Saerileth and nothing came up.



Now I know that I have made posts with her name in.



I am therefore wondering if it works properly.

[Irrbloss]

Use e.g. saerileth site:social.bioware.com in a search engine of your choice (e.g. google) if you want to find something on this board.

[miss_daydream]

wise grimwald wrote...

Thanks.
I found it just before you replied, but it doesn't seem to work.
I was looking for info on the Saerileth Romance as I was concerned that it might be broken after her sad demise.

I typed in Saerileth and nothing came up.

Now I know that I have made posts with her name in.

I am therefore wondering if it works properly.

Huh. Looks like it must be buggy. I used it yesterday but not for the BG forums. That worked then and still does now. But I can't get it to bring up anything in the BG forums.

[Ponce de Leon]

Irrbloss wrote...

Use e.g. saerileth site:social.bioware.com in a search engine of your choice (e.g. google) if you want to find something on this board.

Yeah, that's also a good idea. Better than the forum search thingy anyway.

[Kevin Lynch]

The forum search feature has always been wonky (and annoying) if it worked at all. Go with what the others suggested and use a search engine instead.

[wise grimwald]

Thanks for the info.

It worked!

I actually found that the info I wanted was actually on the old forums.



Death doesn't seem to have broken the romance. She is still romantic and I was able to put the necklace from Sigil on her.



She was temporarily very weak. All her attributes plummetted!



However, she recovered them shortly afterwards.



No doubt the significance of that could emerge later.

[Irrbloss]

wise grimwald wrote...

She was temporarily very weak. All her attributes plummetted!

You probably used Harper's Call on her.

[wise grimwald]

Did indeed.

I didn't realise that "Raise dead" and "Harper's Call" were different.

[wise grimwald]

Kevin Lynch wrote...

The forum search feature has always been wonky (and annoying) if it worked at all. Go with what the others suggested and use a search engine instead.

I never had any problem with the old forums, (forae for the pedantic and latin scholars).

However, this suggestion worked very well.

Might I suggest that the info given about searching be included with other useful info in a sticky at some time.

I don't think it is worth a sticky by itself, but a sticky on using the forums, how to post links to photos etc. thunbnails, searching etc. etc. would be helpful.

We are very much learning by trial and error at the moment, so once we have discovered the best way of doing things, such a sticky would be helpful for newcomers .

[Ponce de Leon]

Clicky

I made a useful group posting. It has the base for image tagging and url tagging. Of course, forum functions are different, but those can still be used. There is also the video linking possible somehow, but I don't exactly know that.

[Kevin Lynch]

There's a site help forum for asking about info about general forum usage and that's probably the best place to post questions of that sort. Otherwise, every forum would need it's own "how to" to keep updated and that's just inefficient.

Oh, and when I mentioned the search feature for the forum I meant this one, of course, since I'm posting here and that's what we were discussing.

[Dante2377]

the site help forum is littered with threads about search not working or being very poor.



In general, the "forum" part of the social site (the only one i really care about) is quite sub par compared to forums software from say, 2004. <shrug>. Same issues when the D&D forums moved to their "social site". It is what it is i guess.

[Ponce de Leon]

Typical BSNer answer : Dude, this is a social site, not a friggin forum!



But seriously, the old forums had almost as many, if not more options in some examples. I don't know what happened to make em move here, but I've got a LITTLE thing going on around my head since I entered this site... you know. 2 capital letters. You can hear them almost everywhere. Like in... "yeah" "hear" "wheah?" "ear" "earn"... you know... well, these two letters might be the main plotters. I fear at least (fear, least, hehehe)

Well, the report button gives the reports to this above not-so clearly mentioned company. You know? And besides, if you have the courage to slide down to the bottom, you might actually see the same thing that appears in all the sites that are governed by this company...

Eh, who are we kidding, BSN is nothing. It should be called EASN...

[Kevin Lynch]

Keep in mind that the old forums took 8-9 years to get to the way they were today. I sure hope that these forums do not take the same amount of time to ramp themselves up to where they should be, considering all that was learned about the old ones.



But, it's time to shut this thread down since the search stuff was answered and it's best discussed in the site help forum. Please do, btw, discuss it there, because the more people that want a feature the more likely it'll come along (nothing is 100% but it can't hurt).