PERRYinLA

Imagine my surprise when reading the following thread today:

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=206269

....to learn that searches now expire, and there is no longer any point in posting a link to a search to help answer someone's question, since they stop working within hours.

Have we not been scolded in several threads not to tell a new guy to "use the search feature" without posting an example?

Maybe ClubLexus is running out of storage space to store all those searches.
(But then how come they still got the space to store these repetitive threads from all the new guys that refuse to search?)

DaveGS4

iTrader: (2)

That feature NEVER worked before the last upgrade and you shouldn't count on it ... The keyword search string is just retained temporarily by vbulletin, this has absolutely nothing to do with storage space. I sometimes link it when I see members are still online and it might work for them, but mostly I don't post it.

You should use your words rather than a simple link to tell them how to search. A link does very little to explain what you did (and what they should do) other than demonstrate the results.

Some examples (which I found using my user name as the poster and 'search keyword' as the keyword

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hlight=keyword
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hlight=keyword
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hlight=keyword
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hlight=keyword

O. L. T.

iTrader: (17)

Yeah searches never did last long. If you find a thread you want to link while searching, click the first post #1 in the upper right corner and it will pop a new window for that post, then click it again for the whole thread. Now you can C&P that thread link.

PERRYinLA

This sure is a poor design choice of vBulletin (or CL's configuration choice).

When you run a search, it "registers" that search with an ID number, and it is a link with that ID number that displays, and that's what we copy into a post.

It looks something like this:
vvv.clublex.com/forums/search.php?searchid=532915

It is bad enough that that search ID does not last in the system, but even worse that it even bothers with one.

Instead, if it just left it something like:
vvv.clublex.com/forums/search.php?searchkeywords="cabin" + " air" + "filter"

Then the actual search would be executed, that link could be pasted into posts, and there would be nothing to expire.

DaveGS4

iTrader: (2)

Perry,

I do not know of any configuration choice to make these last longer.... it's just the way it works.

FWIW, I agree with your 'way it should work' but it just doesn't. Unfortunately there are a whole host of other variables beyond the search keywords that would need to get captured from advanced search so that string would be huge - but would certainly be more useful from reusable perspective.