 auntietk () () posted at 3:35PM Fri, 21 August 2015 Online Now!

I don't have many things at the top of my list, but the search feature in the galleries is right up there.

We have a wonderfully functional advanced sort feature for finding Forum posts, but the really awesome one we used to have to search the galleries is gone, gone, gone. :(

You know the one. You could put in a search word, choose between relevance and chronology, give it a date range, an artist's name, and even a gallery and genre. Boy, was that nice. I used to use it several times a week, and would do so again given half a chance.

Any hope of getting that back?

Tara

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

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 KristiS () () posted at 3:50PM Fri, 21 August 2015 · @4222447 Site Admin

Hello,

If you enter what you would like to search or who in the search bar, it will ask you on the left side of the page if you want forums, galleries, etc. This is actually one of my favorite new features ?

Please let me know if I misunderstood and this is not what you are looking for.

Thank you,

Kristi

Renderosity Admin

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 auntietk () () posted at 4:15PM Fri, 21 August 2015 · @4222461 Online Now!

Thanks, Kristi!

That's closer to what I was looking for than I had found before. I think I followed your instructions pretty well.

As a test, I searched the galleries, and photography in particular, for "Mark." But I can't narrow that down to my own gallery. Am I missing something?

What I generally use the function for is to make sure I'm not repeating myself. If I've got a picture of Mark in my gallery, I don't want to screw up and post it again. Or, maybe I want to talk about Mark and provide a link for people to look at the picture I posted of him several years ago.

So I found a bunch of photographs that used "Mark," or "marked," or "markup," or whatever, when it was in "relevance," and loads of pictures where the word or name "Mark" was used in the caption recently. So for that, it seems to be working fine.

But it's still useless to me if I can't filter it for a specific user's gallery.

Does it do that somewhere and I've missed it?

Tara

ps ... I keep meaning to mention this to you, but keep forgetting. I LOVE the ability to write comments on a full screen! That's a totally awesome feature. Maybe it was there before and I missed it, but it rocks. :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

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 KristiS () () posted at 4:52PM Fri, 21 August 2015 · @4222504 Site Admin

Try this:
Go to your Avatar at the top, view gallery, click on the blue gallery box, type 'Mark' in the search. This should give you any gallery image that has the word 'Mark' in it.

Hopefully this is what you need and if it's not, I will take it to the programmers ?

Kristi

Renderosity Admin

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 CleonXXI () () posted at 6:57PM Fri, 21 August 2015 · @4222572

The gallery search is my largest single problem and antietk expressed the problems with it clearly. You can't search by both chronology and any other given criteria (including artist) as you could before. The large "genre" search section over on the left does not make up for the removal of the "within last X days months years" feature that is now gone. The old way, you could find whatever image you wanted by artist, description and time the image was posted. Now you can only find "newer to older" or vis versa, making any targeted search a hit or miss proposition. The older search was faster and more specific and far less frustrating and annoying than its replacement.

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 auntietk () () posted at 12:22AM Sat, 22 August 2015 · @4222718 Online Now!

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but even starting by clicking the blue "my gallery" button, I still get everybody's work when I type in my search word.

CleonXXI expanded on the problem well. If you would please add his concern about the date range to what I've already said, that would be great. :) I've been here more than eight years, and have a lot of material to sift through.

Thanks --
Tara

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

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 auntietk () () posted at 11:54PM Mon, 24 August 2015 · @4223880 Online Now!

This thread sort of got lost in the shuffle, and it's WAY high on my list, so I thought I'd give it a bump. I figured before I updated this thread and asked again, I'd check to make sure nothing had changed.

!!! Now it doesn't work at all !!!

When I type in something I want to search for, now my only search choices are for marketplace departments.

Could you please review the above thread and let me know if there's any way to search a gallery (mine or someone else's) given the parameters we have already discussed?

Thanks!!

Tara

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa