Embarassing: I need help searching . . . . sigh

At the bottom, there's a radio button for search by date or relevance.  Choose date to get more recent posts at the top of the list.

Thanks Raising4

No need to be embarrassed.   The advanced search has a lot of quirks.  I often get no results or way, way too many results.  Good example:   Try searching for "K-line".   You should get a ton of results, but you get none.  It does however give "K-line" results when you search for "K line" (with a space).  And of course it is not going to pick up the misspellings from forum users:   you also need to search for "Kline".

It would be nice to see threads started by a user vs. their responses to other threads.   Not sure it that can be done.

Bob

I tried "David Minarik power plant" on Google and got this:

https://ogrforum.com/topic/new-tipple

Then clicked his profile/show all posts and found this:

https://ogrforum.com/t...35#57461073882915835      (scroll through for David's photos)

Any good?

RRDOC posted:

No need to be embarrassed.   The advanced search has a lot of quirks.  I often get no results or way, way too many results.  Good example:   Try searching for "K-line".   You should get a ton of results, but you get none.  It does however give "K-line" results when you search for "K line" (with a space).  And of course it is not going to pick up the misspellings from forum users:   you also need to search for "Kline".

It would be nice to see threads started by a user vs. their responses to other threads.   Not sure it that can be done.

Bob

In advanced search, if you select "forums" instead of "everything" at the top, a second radio button appears at the bottom of the page to choose whether or not to include replies.  If you check "no", you will only see the original post in any thread.

Well, I'll be darned!  Thanks Big Train.   I did as you suggested and also ordered them by date, which is really helpful.

The best thing about the forum:   All you need to do is ask!

Bob

Eliot,

Here it is https://ogrforum.com/t...-works-power-station

Looks like my political career is taking off!

Dave

Thanks, Ace, RRDoc, and BigTrain !!

All great ideas !!

I am now a better searcherer.

RRDOC posted:

No need to be embarrassed.   The advanced search has a lot of quirks.  I often get no results or way, way too many results.  Good example:   Try searching for "K-line".   You should get a ton of results, but you get none.  It does however give "K-line" results when you search for "K line" (with a space).  And of course it is not going to pick up the misspellings from forum users:   you also need to search for "Kline".

It would be nice to see threads started by a user vs. their responses to other threads.   Not sure it that can be done.

Bob

Have you noticed, Bob, whether or not search terms are also case sensitive?

Scrapiron Scher posted:

 

I am now a better searcherer.

Like Ace,  I have more luck avoiding the forum search and use Google instead, and keep an eye out for the o gauge forum label showing up. Happy searcherin'!

Another possibility is to click on the link to a poster's profile page, then click on the "activity" tab once there.  It will bring up a list of their posts, and in this case the posts are already in order with most recent first.

I sometimes do this to find my own posts!

big train posted:

Another possibility is to click on the link to a poster's profile page, then click on the "activity" tab once there.  It will bring up a list of their posts, and in this case the posts are already in order with most recent first.

I sometimes do this to find my own posts!

I do that a lot to follow up on my previous posts.

scrap iron, could it be you have to much smoke in the room again! lol,,never to much,,

Another way to search the forum (or any other website) is to go to google and type ogrforum (search term). This works much better than the forums search engine for me....