Searching for Articles

In large forum archives, a forum article being searched for cannot always be found directly. The web interface of the Open-Xchange Server makes a simple tool available to you to search for a particular forum article. To use this, click on the "Extended search" tab in the Forum module. In the first text field listed you have the possibility of entering the desired search text. The use of wildcards is allowed here. If you want, moreover, you can enter multiple terms in the text field. In this case, you have to specify via one of the three option fields listed below how the terms are to be incorporated into the search. The following three different options are thereby available for you to choose:

  1. Result has to contain all search pattern (AND operator)

  2. Result has to contain one search pattern (OR operator)

  3. Search for complete String (exact input - without Wildcards)

To continue, you must set in which position the given string or term is to be searched for.  Via the list field in attribute you can set whether only the title or the description of the forum article or both are to be accounted for in the search. Optionally, the search can be limited through the selection of an appropriate forum.

Using the Also search in archive checkbox, you can search for additional, older and archived articles. Additionally, you can limit the search to a particular time frame via the Postings since and until option fields. If you have selected a forum and a search term, as well as entered a desired time frame, the search will find forum articles that match all of these search options.