I was wondering if there is a way to do a search within a forum and just get the posts that contain the search criteria to display?
What happens is I do a search in a forum, on a given "term" and threads show up with pages and pages but perhaps only 1 post within a given thread has the information I'm looking for.

Is there a way to just have the posts with the search criteria show versus the entire thread?

Thank you for the help.

Good Question It would be really nice.

I'm afraid not but it's something that I might add at some point in the future.

When I need to find something deep in a very long thread, what I will do is change my preferences to show 500 posts per page. Then load the thread up and Ctrl-F and search in my browser for it. That works well for me.

What a wonderful new feature that would be Dave. I have run into the same problem when trying to find something specific. Sure takes up a lot of time.

dave said:I'm afraid not but it's something that I might add at some point in the future.

Thanks Dave for looking at this. Yesterday I was trying to find something and wondered if the site had the feature and I just wasn't seeing the function to do it.

dave said:When I need to find something deep in a very long thread, what I will do is change my preferences to show 500 posts per page. Then load the thread up and Ctrl-F and search in my browser for it. That works well for me.

Now why didn't I think of that?

I've fumbled through forum searches as well but use Dave's technique all the time when working in the DB.

I do what Dave does: edit, find, search for the word.

But I can't miss this opportunity to jump on my soapbox again with the thought that if we had shorter threads, and a new thread for a new subject, we wouldn't have this problem.

Karen