Wait! At the bottom of the 'Simple search' search box's drop down suggestion list is a final item in a shaded box that reads 'Containing: <search sting here>'. Selecting that takes you to a search results page. Aha!
Why am I only now learning this? Maybe I'm a model average user? Not likely. But it is learning by playing. So maybe others can do it, too? What do you think? Roger On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just realized that, using 'Simple search', all one has to do to > get past the article title suggestions is lengthen ones search string > till it no longer exactly matches any article titles. Then, and only > then, does 'Simple search' take you to a search results page. Might > this simply be something folks need to learn to do, by doing? And > might it simply work? Are average users consistently so cleaver? > Argggg. I think if we lead them in the right direction it will work > fine. What do you think? > > Roger > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Now that I think about it, does the prefix search still work with that hack? >>> By work I mean you should be able to select one of the entries that pops >>> down under the search box as you type and it takes you to that article. >> >> No, with the hack in place clicking on one of the drop down search >> suggestions takes you to the search results page for that value, not >> to an article page. That _is_ perhaps what I want. I want Search to >> take you to a search results page, so that a user may choose which >> page he wants. >> >> Is the drop down list of search suggestions generated from a list of >> the wiki's page titles? Hm, I guess it is. I had not realized that. So >> how does one search the wiki's page texts? This whole search feature >> seems to be designed to take a user to a destination article directly >> whenever possible. I'm not sure that is best for my wiki because that >> page may not always be the one a user wants and without the search >> results page, how will he find the one he does want? By doing another >> search with more search terms? Hm, maybe we can all get used to this >> and maybe it will just work. >> >> Argggg, and trying to change this designed in behavior may not be so >> easy for a chiefly point and click guy like me. >> >> So I may decide to use the two button ('Go' + 'Search') Search box >> that I get when I set $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch to false, instead, >> especially if this hack is not going to work in future. >> >> Thanks for the tips. >> >> Roger _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
