LizzieEllis said:Is there a way to do a search within the forum without going through 14 pages of posts? I remember reading about boron/Borax and some other topics I want to find again.
Hi Lizzle,
That was, and still is, a very good question. This NGA Site has a built-in Search tool. At the time I read your message I used it to Search for "boron" in the Annuals forum, and I got this result. (You have to click on all these square picture thumbnails to see the whole picture.)
That told me that two message threads in the Annuals forum contained references to
boron and that they were
Zinnia button box and
It can be fun to breed your own zinnias (this thread). The date/time timestamps for the posts containing the search targets were shown, which would be a guide for finding the two posts which contained references to "boron".
However, as you said, there was going to be some going through the posts to find the matching date/times, which was going to involve some unnecessary effort, since the NGA Site "knew" which posts contained the search targets.
I requested an enhancement to the Search tool in the
Site Talk forum, and Dave very helpfully made the enhancement. So now the NGA Site Search tool makes it easy to find the references to
boron in the Annuals forum (or any other forum).
The process is quite easy when you "get the hang of it", so I will show it step-by-step. First of all, click on Annuals in the forums list of 100 forums. That puts you at a screen listing the current message threads in the Annuals forum, and notice a
Search Forums box at the top righthand side of the screen.
Type "boron" into that box and click the Magnifying Glass button on the right side of that box. That produces this screen.
In order to restrict the search to just the Annuals forum, go to the
Search only list, click on the little down arrow to drop down a list of all of the forums, and go down and click on the Annuals forum. Your screen now looks like this.
Click on the green
Search button to launch the search. That produces this screen.
Notice that now on the left you have the Post # of the target posts. You can now simply click on the Post # to go to that post.
Your original question actually led to an enhancement to the NGA Site Search tool. Sometimes small causes can have large effects
(thanks to Dave). If you have questions or need further clarification about this process, don't hesitate to ask.
ZM
