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Post by woka70 on Mar 23, 2012 20:27:50 GMT
Hi all,
I recently bought a Sun Fast 20 and subscribed in this forum.
I'd like to point out what seems to me as a large issue in this forum and ask for solutions from those of you who have more experience using the forum.
Using the search option to find specific Sun Fast 20 posts, the search results omit the terms "sun" and "20" because these have less than 4 characters...
How to search for specific Sun Fast 20 posts?
Have the moderators considered creating specific model threads?
Cheers
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Post by MalcolmP on Mar 24, 2012 11:13:05 GMT
Hi and welcome to the forum Apologies that I had not got back to you on your email on the same issue The bad news is that I don't think there is a work around at the moment but I have asked the main Proboards forum for their advice support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=support&thread=413695 so it may be someone on a different forum might come up with a fix - but I imagine the problem is that if search terms are only 2 or 3 letters their server would become too overworked Secondly .... and not sure if this is good or bad news but I am fairly sure there have been very few, if any, specific threads on the SF20 so you probably are not missing much to date....(maybe you can change that by submitting some info on your own SF20? There is an active French language SF20 forum at: forumsunfast20.free.fr/ which you may want to also register on. If your French is limited you may still find that forum a useful source of info by using one of the auto-translate tools on Google or elsewhere If I get a useful response on possible ways of doing short term searches I will update this thread cheers |
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Post by MalcolmP on Mar 24, 2012 18:19:29 GMT
The advice from Proboards is that short search terms cannot be used on the internal search feature but a search using Google for:
site:jeanneau.proboards.com sun fast 20
should find items
I have tried and it seems the only specific reference to a SF20 was back in 2006 regarding a Genoa
Still useful to know how more specific short term searches can be made
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Post by MalcolmP on Mar 24, 2012 19:09:30 GMT
The advice from Proboards is that short search terms cannot be used on the internal search feature but a search using Google for: site:jeanneau.proboards.com sun fast 20 should find items I have tried and it seems the only specific reference to a SF20 was back in 2006 regarding a Genoa Still useful to know how more specific short term searches can be made I think I have found the answer! simply use the advanced search facilities on google as shown in the attached screenshot  |
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Post by woka70 on Mar 25, 2012 20:54:44 GMT
Dear Admin,
Thank you so much! Both of your solutions are great workarounds for this limitation!
I already subscribed the french forum, but I appreciate the tip.
It's always good to learn from others hand-on experience/share experience - I'm currently treating my SF20 against osmosis, so, in the end I'll have a nice amount of 'material' to share.
Kind regards
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Post by MalcolmP on Mar 26, 2012 6:32:00 GMT
Glad to have helped, but thanks for flagging up the problem as the google advanced search should help others looking for other models Do send in some photos of your boat if possible to our gallery jeanneau-owners.com/photogallery.htmlCheers |
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