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MORE ELENIN ENHANCEMENTS; 4 line ships up.. actually there are 2X4
Topic Started: Jun 29 2011, 10:33 PM (12,830 Views)
Wiolawa
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THANX YASS>. that was alot of WOrK!.. to find those.. i havent seen the search bar in the menu or noticed it.. but my page to page search didnt find much.. and i thought they would be all together.. ??? ah ho WIO
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yass
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Yeah, I remember once when you couldn't find stuff and I found what you were looking for and more because I searched through your profile. The Egyptian trip you made and the Elenin events all happened around the same period of time and around the time you were getting frustrated about finding them, one of them was bumped to the first page and so I was able to get the posting date from the first page and find the posts you made around that date and come up with most all of what you were looking for and then some.

You can scroll back page by page to look for threads but threads posted around the same time are not going to necessarily be located near each other because each time you post to a thread, regardless of when it was first created, it is going to be bumped to the first page, and there sits it's new position. One thread might generate more posts than another and so they get separated in that respect. They could be many, many, pages apart.

I'll give you a little tour. I have to say, though. When I first got to Godlike productions back in 2006... for the first several months I wasn't aware there was a search function. It was my first forum/board and I didn't even know it existed. I was scrolling back through pages trying to find threads I'd posted in or make a reply, etc. It was terribly inefficient. One day I 'discovered' the search. It's like a machine you learn to use and it took time but it was so helpful!!!!

These boards have features we are yet to discover, I'm sure. Learning how to search can be very valuable and save a lot of frustration. I've been there and done it wio.

Okay. I took some screen shots to show you the ropes a little bit. I hope it helps.

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Above shows where the search link is.





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When you click it you'll come to this screen.
I ticked 'Search Topics' and typed in the word Elenin.
That led me to the list of threads which had the word Elenin
in the topic title.
The default date of beginning search is the day the forum opened
and was posted in.






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Another method of searching is through someone's posts or
topics started. If you've started threads and you want to locate them
you have but to click on your name.
You can click on your name in these locations.






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You can click on your name here, too.





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It will take you here to your profile page
or the profile page of anyone's name you click on.
You see Profile Options, click on it.






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The top two options are:
     List Member's Posts
     List Member's Topics
I clicked on List Member's Posts that time I searched for
and found your Egyptian threads (and found Elenin threads
posted around the same time).
I didn't want to use List Member's Topics because they are not in
chronological order. They are in 'last bump' order.






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This is what the Member's Posts page looks like.
It is easier to navigate in some circumstances.
It helps to have a date to zero in on.
When I found your Egyptian threads, I found most of them in
one month, but there may have been more in the month just before and just after that month.






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For what it's worth I don't remember ever noticing this. I don't know if it's new or has always been there. I don't know what it would be good for. I wonder what 'most relevant' would produce.
Had I not been making this little picture tutorial I probably would
never have noticed it.





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Petunia
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Yass, thank you very much for taking the time to do all of that. It was a lot of work. You are an :angel:
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Wiolawa
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THANX YASS>. it did take much time to find out where things were.. much appreciated.. ahho WIO
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yass
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It will have been worth the time and effort to put together if wio will be able to find things she's looking for and not have to throw her arms up in frustration for not being able to find it. I hope it's user-friendly enough. :owlwave:


Edited by yass, Sep 8 2012, 06:37 PM.
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