poster section search

[bigmarkey]

HI, is anyone else having any issues with the poster art Search section
for example
I did a search for the flash
I got one page of good results the next page jumped to Textures
I tried other searches with similar results

[sauron]

I've just tested the search on the posters and every time I got Sorry, no results found. Search Again?

[venome]

No problems here.. search 'Flash' only and let me know how you get on. I got more results when i dropped 'The'

[ctaulbee]

Search is notoriously wrong in there, mostly due to poor item titling, the multi-file up-loader assigns item titles based on file names and is seems very few bother to correctly name files as to what they 'actually' are before posting them thus there are untold numbers of files in there with random non-descriptive titles, search looks at the titles or captions only so even if there is an album it won't find the files unless the titles are correct.

I gave up using it years ago, once I figured out why it was not finding (in many cases) items that I later discovered to be there.

Best way to find things in the resource gallery is to scan the "album listing", it's easy to do they are nicely ordered and divided into sections, if a album exists then all resources for that title will be in it.

Or you can take your chances with the search but in most cases even if it finds 'something' there is a better than likely chance it won't find all items related to that title for the a fore mention reason.

Edit: Might note, this is on my needs attention list, should be able to correct this in the future but for now looking for albums is your best choice.

[venome]

And finding a single item will inevitably lead you to the album containing all images... it's linked above the image result.

[ctaulbee]

Provided there is at least one file in it, that is a. correctly titled to begin with or b. one that matches the search criteria, whatever that may be...

Should also mention that probably other than staff very few members beyond that will understand how search works, so they will expect it to find 'all results', a normal assumption I would think and when they are presented with a search results page that will likely be as far as they will go, the thinking being at that point all have been found.

In your example, if I say search for "Harry Potter" I will likely be present with may search results choices (I've not tired this but is would seem logical given the number of films) then I must browse them and have knowledge of which is for which film (if they happen to not be clearly labeled) then pick one then after that loads go to it's album to find all for that film, IMHO it's far simpler to just open "H" tab scroll down to HP films pick the one I want and done, but to each his own.

Point is item naming (captions) is flawed as is, it's no ones fault module should not have been designed the way it is, far too subjective and at the whims of up-loaders or in the case of the multi-file one it just flat does it wrong lol.

Now if all the title (caption fields) were forced to match the album (cat name) they are placed in and then have any extra info placed in the description field -- all is solved and search will then work as expected in all cases.