unanswered post search enhancements[INFO]

orionrobots

This might be awkward to code - but could it exclude items that have been sent to the dustbin? Also - encourage posters who are not expecting a solution to somehow mark there subject [INFO] and the already establsihed [SOLVED] so these can be excluded from the search.

This allows me to get much deeper into helping answer the unanswered posts I can deal with.

It may also be useful to have a language (show posts only in my language), but I have once or twice helped out spanish or german posters - I understand little of the language, but enough to help out and use babelfish. Anyway - big up the unanswered posts initiative.
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hardcore · l33t Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 626 Location: MSU, MI

Your ideas sound good to me. Continuing, I think it would be nice to exclude specific parts of the forums. Or maybe just display different unanswered forum posts. Like being able to selectively exclude say Off the Wall, Gentoo Chat, etc. But still leaving the option to include unanswered posts from those areas of the forums.
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pilla · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

All these concerns have been raised before, but they all depend on modifications in the phpBB's main release to get their way into our Forums.

You can have a look around GFF for many threads about these requests.
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orionrobots · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: Possibly easier route

How about putting a tick box in the advanced search query page - posts with no replies. Then you can use boolean terms with the unanswered posts and see ones that you can answer.

I understand it may not be easy to implement - but may be less work than the other requests here...
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

As pilla mentioned, the search modification has been requeseted several times in the past. Also, phpbb is responsible for adding new features to their software.
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