Hi,? I did quite a bit of searching here, could not find an answer to my question.

Is there a way to search everything in the group/subgroup, not just messages?
This means including, in the same search, all of the sections of the group:? Messages, Calendar, Photos, Files, Databases, and Wiki (especially wiki).

For my subgroup (), we will have important information in both messages and wiki.? While it is nice to have a wiki-only search, we very much need to have a search that covers everything, or at least an option to select which sections should be included.

Thanks.

I find the potential? results of any such search frightening and fear it would be meaningless info
With 155,000 messages and well over 3000 members, a global search would simply generate far too large a load of garbage that no one could possilby use in our group

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Bob Bellizzi

The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:51 pm, Bob Bellizzi wrote:

I find the potential? results of any such search frightening and fear it would be meaningless info

Bob, to coin a phrase, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself".? LOL

Have you ever done a Google search?? Google searches hundreds of millions of records to often find thousands of matches, but presents the best matches on top.? I usually find what I want within the first 3-5 hits.

In this case, it found your foundation, as the top 3 hits:




So a good search engine benefits from more quality sources, like your groups.io wiki, which should be better than the chatter from your 3,000 members.
Nothing to fear my friend, if the search engine is good.

Bob,

With 155,000 messages and well over 3000 members, a global search
would simply generate far too large a load of garbage that no one
could possilby use in our group

That seems like an odd assumption.

Yes, it would if one searched for a word or phrase that is too commonly used in your group, but that's what search refinement is all about.

After all, web search engines like Google and Bing index untold billions of pages, yet people routinely get useful search results from them. I doubt Groups.io's search relevance ranking is anywhere near to being in the same sophistication ballpark as the major engines, but then the universe of content (messages + photos + files + ...} in a single group isn't anywhere near to being in the same size ballpark as the entire web.

Shal

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:16 pm, JMichaelTX wrote:

Is there a way to search everything in the group/subgroup, not just messages?
This means including, in the same search, all of the sections of the group:? Messages, Calendar, Photos, Files, Databases, and Wiki (especially wiki).

Well, after a bit of distraction, the question remains unanswered.
If I don't get an answer within a few days, I'll go ahead and post the question/request to the beta group.

I would add a +1 for a global search.? One that hit messages, files, wiki and potentially database files.?

开云体育

Post in beta. Doesn’t yet exist.

Definitely want this.

I know it's been some time, but if you get this, could you share a link to the other place if we can vote on the feature?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 05:06 PM, Michael Moore wrote:

could you share a link to the other place if we can vote on the feature?

All suggestions should be posted on the beta group.? You'd need to look over there to see if it's already been suggested, then reply to that message or post it yourself.? However, that has been put on hold until the YG migration is complete.? The beta group is on moderation and no suggestions will be approved until a later date.

Duane
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