Finding a post by number, How?

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

In a reply to his (motor connector) thread, Andy-H said

At present my favoured solution is the one mentioned in post-717106 (! March)

Andy

I used the forum search to find 717106 but it failed miserably. It took about 20 seconds to bring up Andy’s post (with the above text) number 717875

Apart from its poor functionality, Why are the search button/s so well hidden?

I’m almost reluctant to mention or ask questions about the forum software as I feel the team at Mortons have no interest or enthusiasm (or pride even!) to improve the product.

Ian P

 

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I can’t answer your specific question, Ian … because a search didn’t work for me either. [with or without the prepended #]

But I did find the post, by simply scrolling up until I found 717106

Of course [meaning no offence to Andy] it would have been more effective for him to quote the URL of the post in question:

Actually that returns another stupid result … Grrr!!

Hopefully this will display, because I have stripped the ‘https://www’ off the front

.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/topic/electrical-connector-required-suggestions-on-anything-suitable/#post-717106

 

MichaelG.

 

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

I managed to find THIS

[Dalboy]

On Dalboy Said:

I managed to find THIS

Congratulations … but that is the Topic, not the specific Post.

There should [but doesn’t appear to be] a way of linking directly to a numbered Post.

If you discover it please let us know.

Ian and I have both failed so far.

MichaelG.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

if you can bear the sight of pages of code (most of which is unnecessary) look at the code (control u in most browsers) – there are no labels by which enter a page midway – the whole essence of this grotesquely engineered system is to generate unique pages on the fly – it only works because by now most users are on high speed lines and have powerful processors

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Rather strangely, Frances … Using the iPad, if I long-press on any of these recent posts, and then select ‘Open in new Tab’ [or whatever] it works as expected … but if I copy the link and paste that into a Post that I am composing;  it does the other thing !

If you can explain that, it would be heroic !

MichaelG.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

It’s going all a bit off topic, but linking to an individual post works ok

Just copy the URL of the top right hand blue post number.

As I recall, you need to then insert it As An Embedded Link like this which should then open the overall topic with this post at the head of the relevant page.

Just inserting the link like this may not give the same result; screenshot below so it doesn’t auto-resolve

That link is inserted directly below to allow the site to resolve it.

Finding a post by number, How?

 

Where I struggle, is how to search the forum for a post number, unless you know the topic title.
In which case, just open any post in that topic and edit the last number in the URL.
Yes I know it’s messy

Bill

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Bill

Do you think the lack of a feature to find a post by number would be classified as a ‘bug’ and therefore reportable to Andy, or do you think its not worth bothering with?

I know you, Dave and Jason have done sterling work in the last few months but I, as a mere participant have no idea how busy behind the scenes the admin folk so thought you might just have an insight.

Ian P

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Still can’t find an easy way within the site, but Google Advanced Search works fine

 

 

Bill

 

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