Forum Suggestion: Search capability in Private Messages

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  1. Rick Book

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    What the title sez.


    Not a major complaint - it'd be nice to have though.
     
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    You could export the messages and then open the file in notepad and then search your messages.
     
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  3. Rick Book

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    That's why your the Big Cheese and I'm but a lowly peon in this wild world web. ;)

    Yeah, I suppose I could - but a SEARCH feature doesn't 'sound' like much trouble to add (for the programmers) and would be a nice one-click feature.
     
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    sounds to me like you are trying to ...search... something for someone that could do it themselves. :huh:

    ...Ricks' bestest friends...Frank & Effie...:tiphat:
     
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  5. Rick Book

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    Nah, I was searching for a "real" name of someone that had PM'd me and they didn't list their name in the thread I started, "What's your front name?", a while back.




    'Glad to be Effie and Frank's Friend, Rick :bouncy:
     
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    You're right Rick, it would be an easy thing to do (I can say that because I did it on my board), but Stefan's not the programmer. Someone has to submit a feature request and wait for vbulletin to do it.
     
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    I revived the thread...can't believe i have never seen it before...
     
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  8. Rick Book

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    Yup. I done what knew that. But :tiphat: 's.
     
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    A proper search function would have to take into account security settings of the user groups I have set up, which complicates things.


    I guess you do a table scan of the PM table? Which database do you use?
     
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    Is your first statement talking about searching PM's?

    Since users can only have a limited number of PM's, I just load their inbox or sent box and do a text search of the subject and/or message body. I can't remember offhand where I'm storing them, but it's file-based.
     
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    Yes..
     
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