Forum Issues and Administration • Variable Percentage Withdrawals (VPW Forward Test): Searching for the monthly Forward tests

There are differences in the behavior of search icons when browsing a forum (like the Theory forum) versus when browsing a thread (like this thread). This post isn't about such differences. This post is about the behavior of search icons when browsing a thread (what phpBB calls a "topic").

I'll provide detailed instructions so that readers can replicate what I did.

Here are three approaches to open an "advanced search" page while browsing a thread.

First approach

1. Leave the "Search this topic..." input box empty (don't write anything into it).
2. Click on the related search icon (magnifying glass).
3. Resulting destination:

   Code:

   https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/search.php?keywords=&t=437515&sf=msgonly

4. That's a thread-specific advanced search page.

Second approach

1. Click on the thread advanced search icon (gears).
2. Resulting destination:

   Code:

   https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/search.php

3. That's a general advanced search page which searches the entire forum.

Third approach

1. Click on the forum advanced search icon (gears).
2. Resulting destination:

   Code:

   https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/search.php

3. That's a general advanced search page which searches the entire forum.

Questions

1. Why hide the thread-specific advanced search page behind the thread magnifying glass icon (only works when no word is provided for the search)?
2. Why duplicate the forum gears icon functionality (approach 3) with an identical thread gears icon (approach 2), leading to the same general search page?
3. Why doesn't the thread gears icon lead to a topic-specific advanced search page?

Statistics: Posted by longinvest — Fri Aug 16, 2024 7:32 pm — Replies 13 — Views 585

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