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Re: I am getting sick of this ...
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:47:21 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:

> Whenever I go to search for a part in partsref, it never sorts the matches
> by most relevant/least relevant etc.  It just lists them in whatever order
> it finds them.

Yes, it does.  The most relevant matches are listed first -- for each
part, the keywords that matched are listed in red.

> E.G.  Brick 1 x 4 with side studs as used in a space airlock door MOC
> recently.  I tried a search using the keywords 'brick side studs' (no
> quotes).

I don't think that part is in Partsref yet.

> Unfortunately the search engine brings back *everything* with brick OR side
> OR studs in it, and not in any particular order!

When I did this search, the first part listed was the only part that
matched all three searchwords.  Then there were a number of items that
matched two searchwords, and finally items that matched a single
searchword.

> Can this be fixed, and soon?  This is making me sick of paging through
> results 20 by 20 all the time!  It would be nice for me to know if I could
> use capitalized operation keywords like "AND" or "OR" or even "NOT" - I
> don't know though if this is possible with the lugnet search function?  Or
> perhaps default to or, with a + sign next to a word meaning INCLUDE matches
> with this word, - sign meaning EXCLUDE matches with this word.

AND and OR are not supported, but +, -, and * are.  See page
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/help/

Steve



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  Re: PartsRef help...
 
(...) Also, the "help" page has no left margin space, making it somewhat hard to read. Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Whenever I go to search for a part in partsref, it never sorts the matches by most relevant/least relevant etc. It just lists them in whatever order it finds them. E.G. Brick 1 x 4 with side studs as used in a space airlock door MOC recently. I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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