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Old Nov 3, 2003 | 2:07 pm
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jimbob
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Searching across multiple forums

Is there any way to search across multiple/all forums? If not, is that a limitation of Infopop or has it been disabled for performance reasons? I've tried removing the ForumChoice parameter from the HTML for the search form, but that didn't work. If this isn't available, would anyone mind if I built a simple script that ran a search on multiple forums?

Also, completely unrelated, but another pet peeve that I have is how the forums have unfriendly numeric names. For instance, the "Suggestions" forum is "Forum73". When I see a URL in a post, it would be nice to know which forum it's taking me to. Just a minor thing to keep in mind if any new bulletin board software is being evaluated. Other niceties to look for would be spell-checking, post preview, thread view count, a topic created (vs. updated) date column, and the killer feature of automatically jumping to the last read post in each thread when it is opened. Just some ideas...

Thanks.

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