Username search results

[westpak]

I recently noticed that on a couple of users when doing searches for their posts the results stop with threads from a couple of months ago even though they have posted many times since then.

The only common thing I can think of is that I manually changed their posts counts a while and I think it corresponds to the time the results stop. I have tried various maintenance actions with no results.

[Steve Machol]

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Maximum Search Results to Return

If you make this too high, it could cause significant load issues.

[westpak]

thanks but that is not the problem

I looked again and it seems newer posts are also showing up but they are not in descending order of last post as checked in the search options but they are scattered.

[Steve Machol]

Not sure I undderstand. Can you duplicate this here?

[westpak]

Sure, go to this link http://www.sfzcc.com/forum/search.php?searchid=35319

it is a search result with the option of displaying in "last posting date" in "descending" order checked but the results are random in date.

just realized you probably can't see it without being registered it so I will copy and paste

[westpak]

see attachment

[Steve Machol]

What I meant was can you duplicate this issue on these forums?

[westpak]

sorry, no.

when I search using other usernames the posts show up in chronological order it is just these two users I manually adjusted post counts a while back that the posts show up in random order

[Steve Machol]

What 'Sort Results By' setting are you using?

[westpak]

What 'Sort Results By' setting are you using?

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it is a search result with the option of displaying in "last posting date" in "descending" order checked but the results are random in date.

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^^^^^

[Steve Machol]

I really don't know what to suggest then. It must be due to the modification you talked about.

[SNN]

From what it looks like, your Search Results are in order by chronological order by posts not their created threads and is not set to "Show Results as Posts", by the order of when Gators2001 posted. It is not in order of the last reply in the thread.
I can duplicate this on my friends forum.

I believe the feature is working as it is supposed to be. Listing as Gators2001's post time.

[westpak]

the thing is that it only happens with two users, gators2001 being one of them, and if you do a search to show results as posts the first post shown is in October although he has posted many times since then.

[westpak]

I just noticed that with these two users the search results say:

search took xx seconds: generated xxxxx minute(s) ago

but with all other users it just says:

search took xx seconds

[westpak]

OK I guess no one has an answer, but here is some pieces of the puzzle to see if it helps.

The random results and search took xx seconds: generated xxxxx minute(s) ago message only happens when the search requirement of Find Posts from ANY DATE and NEWER is used if I pick 3 MONTHS and NEWER or anything else besides ANY DATE the results are in order and the generated xxxxx minute(s) ago message doesn't apear, again this only hapens with some users not all