The answers here at answers.flexsim.com are related to different versions. If I search for a keyword I get all the information of all matching answers. But I want to get answers only to Version 17 or newer. How can I accomplish this? Is there a filter or sorting algorithm I can use on the results of my search?
It is too bad that we don't have a more powerful advanced search on this site. Luckily Google has a very powerful search engine we can leverage.
The following Google search looks for any posts marked specifically for FlexSim version 17.1.1 and related to conveyors:
"Version: FlexSim 17.1.1" conveyor site:answers.flexsim.com
By putting the version you're interested in within quotes, it tells Google to search this text strictly. The "conveyor" term is the general term I'm looking for, and "site:answers.flexsim.com" limits results just to our site.
According to Google's search techniques for refining web searches, the following is an appropriate way to search across a range of versions:
"Version: FlexSim 17.0..17.1" conveyor site:answers.flexsim.com
Where you specify the boundary versions separated by two dots (..).
If you want to specify a lower bounding version, but leave the max version undefined, the following search seems to do the trick:
"Version: FlexSim 16.2.." conveyor site:answers.flexsim.com
By simply leaving off the max version after the two dots, Google returns results for 16.2, 17.0, and 17.1 versions (and I presume in the future 17.2 and 18.0, etc, once such results exist).
Google's search techniques page also offers other helpful tips for constructing powerful, customized searches.
But wasn´t this one of the main reasons for switching from Community Forum to a completely new answers.flexsim.com site, having better search Features and stuff!? Now we search by using Google? This worked before ;-)
@sebastian.hemmann, not sure if this was a serious comment. How would you have searched for a range of versions in the old forum?
Sorry that Answers isn't suiting your needs.
@Ben Wilson sorry, you are right. In the old Forum it was (nearly) not possible to search for a range of versions. But one of the main reason for this I think is, that most of us didn´t add the "Version" in their threats and this means the Information for such a search does mostly just not exist in the old forum. In the new Forum we have this Information now, and this makes it fortunately available.
Also sorry that my comment maybe was not 100% serious. For me it is just still hard to find a way to like the new Forum as much (or more) than the old one. The search function was/ should be one main benefit for the new Forum. But as you surely know there were some Problems in the last weeks in which the search function was extremely slow or didn´t work at all. This brings us (users) back to use the Google search. Like we did before;-)
The last sorry for the comments, although I know that the new Forum is not only focused to the needs of the users but also has to suit to a bigger audience like developers and so on. And I also know you are doing a good Job on it.
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