Search Help

[ggdad1951]

Ok, this may get moved or copied to the other forums, but I know people get a little lost on the search function.  MAYBE this will help clear things up.

 

So, say I want to search "tail light".  FIRST I have to decide if I want to search the MAIN forum or within a SUB-forum.

 

 

If you are in the sub-forum you want to search, select "This Forum" by clicking IN the SEARCH oval for the drop down,  other search options are displayed when click in the search box

 

This is a MAIN forum search:

 

but I KNOW I want something in the truck forum so I will go to THAT forum and search there:

 

 

enter my search term "tail light" and hit the looking glass to search:

 

 

This search returns this:

 

 

You can be even more detailed in your search if you  go to the "+ More Search Options" and enter information there:

 

 

I this case I remembered a post by "ggdad1951" that had the info in I needed so I select  "Search by author" and enter that search term:

 

 

that results in a more defined search like this:

 

 

Of course you can do all sorts of  advanced searches with the check boxes to help you find things and you can also do a Boolean search to help refine early on in the process.  Boolean searches include the "+" or "-" to either include or exclude things you are looking for.  In the example below in the red box I put the "+" in front of tail light and truck.  This will return ONLY search that have BOTH terms, see the yellow boxes.  It will also pop up the GREEN box to further help you.  More about Boolean search can be found via Google or your favorite search engine.

 

 

 

Hopefully this helps!  IF you have a suggestion to make this tutorial better, PM me.

 

Thanks!

 

[JBNeal]

I found an interesting problem requesting assistance in solving that led me to do some research, as I have two future projects that involve column shift transmissions and I wanted to know more about what other members have experienced.  Using the features of the search function, I was able to find several results that listed URLs that pointed to the server that is no longer used.  When this forum transitioned to the new server, I vaguely recall mention of a way to search for the new post address when an old post address was located in a dead link by using the post# or thread# in the URL, but I haven't been able to locate that information either.  This is the post in question:

 

http://p15-d24.com/topic/23256-shifting-problem/?do=findComment&comment=230625

 

I can see thread 22957 being referenced in the link, but after several hours of searches, I was not able to find this specific post being referenced.  Is there a way to locate a post being referenced using an inactive forum URL that has been given a new forum URL?

Edited October 20, 2019 by JBNeal

[P15-D24]

JB,  I would do a Google search with site: p15-d24.com  shifter column

 

The thread number is no longer valid as it is over 4 years old and used the old forum format. Google actually does a pretty extensive index of the entire site (it has a special "backdoor" for it's search engine) and it is the best way to pull up really old threads.