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OldMatador
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One of the items my users have been clamoring for is the ability to search and return actual posts rather than the topics they are in. Topics have been known to grow over 20 pages, so just listing the topic doesn't really help them.

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Etymon
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Originally posted by OldMatador
One of the items my users have been clamoring for is the ability to search and return actual posts rather than the topics they are in. Topics have been known to grow over 20 pages, so just listing the topic doesn't really help them.

Is this available?

See here: Search Terms MOD 1.0
I had just developed something similar to this for my own forum. This MOD is cleaner than what I did for myself, and it should be helpful to your users.
Cheers,

Etymon


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Astralis
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How is this working with MSSQL Server? I know the regular search page had to be tweaked because of some time-out issues. Does this take that into consideration? Anyone know?<
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Shaggy
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Astralis, all it is is a popup window presenting all the posts in a given topic on a single page with your search terms highlighted so you can easily scan through all the messages at once looking for the highlighted terms rather than paging through topics.
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Astralis
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Where can I download this? The domain where it was hosted has expired.<
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Etymon
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It's still there. smile
Mouse over the link, then right click and do a "Save Target As ..." (Internet Explorer's method).
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