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Had to type in my whole name b4 it would list it ! Waste of time if your name is Ianw

Ian

Now it wont even publish my follow up !!!

Or my follow up to my follow up

You have to type it in the "screename" search box. I just tried it and a whole heap of ian's came up.

OK now it does !!! lol

Nope. Type in Ian and only one ian comes up. Not me. Lots of Brians and other names with "ian" in them. I mean that the Autocomplete is not working.
To get Ianw I have to type in the whole word.
The Autocomplete only seems to list names starting with a or b or c with the letters ian in them,.

Ian

Ian,
Yes your name creates an interesting situation. I made the auto complete have wild cards from and back so a search for ian is a *ian* search with results returned in alpha order so brian matches in this case. I could change the auto complete to be suffix wild only so ian* would not match brian however David would not match ExplorOz David or Member David or other. I can try to force the results to via a search order without the wild card but not sure if this will work. I will see what I can come up with.

I do not want to make it only suffix wild if I can avoid it. Unless the general consensus is suffix only wild is fine.
David

It only lists a certain number of names. Ian doesnt even make the list.


Another thing is that I used to be able to do the same thing (search for names) in the text search box. Doesnt work now.

Ian

Ian,
Yes this is why a suffix only wild would fix it but I will see if I can come up with something better.

Correct I have rationalised the search systems for accuracy and performance and names are not embedded in the free text results hence the reason name search has been added.

David

Thanx David,
Not whinging, it's OK as is (3 vs 4 letters) for me, just providing F/B

Ian

Motherhen,

See my post yesterday about this and please feel free to provided feedback Forum_Search_Returns_-_New_Updated

David