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| | | Author: | snapper212  | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 17:20 | | Subject: | search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi, might be a stupid question, but I have had a long running problem with the
search box.
Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
Just now I typed in 4032(2x2 round plate) and it would not bring it up.Tried
it 3 times. Yet when I checked the catalogue manually that is the correct number.
I can go to google to search Lego and 98% of the time just a single search shows
me what I want on the first try.
Thanks.
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| | | | | Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 18:38 | | Subject: | Re: search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, snapper212 writes:
| | Hi, might be a stupid question, but I have had a long running problem with the
search box.
Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
Just now I typed in 4032(2x2 round plate) and it would not bring it up.Tried
it 3 times. Yet when I checked the catalogue manually that is the correct number.
I can go to google to search Lego and 98% of the time just a single search shows
me what I want on the first try.
Thanks.
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Not just you, happens randomly to me as well.
Get a "Not found" page at times.
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| | | | | Author: | mfav | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 18:51 | | Subject: | Re: search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, snapper212 writes:
| | Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
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Not a browser issue.
The search box which appears at the top of most pages, when set to "All Items",
has a script attached to it.
What follows here is observation, not some intimate knowledge of whateverthehell
the script is.
You enter your query.
Then the script displays up to four "similar" query "returns", then three "product"
"returns" (see attached image).
If your query is "standard"...like a four character part number...then the popdown
displays some variations of that (see first two columns of attached image).
Next it will show the returns. The first return is usually a set, the second
return is usually a part, and the third is usually gear. At least for a four-digit
query. In most cases.
Sometimes, however, your four-digit query has multiple sets associated with that
number. In the case of 4032, there is a great pile of versions of the 4032 set,
and those fill in the returns (see second column of attached image).
Typically there is only one set with a four-digit number. In that case it will
then show the set. Then because there are no more sets it shows the Part query
number. If there are no more parts, it shows the Gear query number.
If you put in a particularly long query, or some non-conforming-to-what-the-script-can-handle
query, then the "similar" returns may vary in number (see third column of attached
image). The "product" returns may also vary or not display depending on the ability
of the script to match the query term with a term in the catalog.
So the search box is working correctly, it's just not working as you'd
expect (yeah, not working as anyone would expect), therefore it appears to be
working incorrectly. This is because the returns are inconsistent...or at least
appear inconsistent.
Because the search dialog is searching the entire catalog, you get returns that
are wildly eccentric based on any particular query string's appearance or
absence in any given part of the catalog. If that string exists either multiple
times across catalog sections or multiple times within a specific
catalog section, that shapes the sequencing in the return.
Hope that makes sense.
If you change the toggle from "All Items" in the search box to one of the other
selections, the auto-popup-whichamajigger doesn't do its thing.
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| | | | | Author: | Cob | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 21:26 | | Subject: | Re: search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, snapper212 writes:
| | Hi, might be a stupid question, but I have had a long running problem with the
search box.
Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
Just now I typed in 4032(2x2 round plate) and it would not bring it up.Tried
it 3 times. Yet when I checked the catalogue manually that is the correct number.
I can go to google to search Lego and 98% of the time just a single search shows
me what I want on the first try.
Thanks.
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Interesting enough 4032b works fine.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Cob | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 21:27 | | Subject: | Re: search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Cob writes:
| | In Catalog, snapper212 writes:
| | Hi, might be a stupid question, but I have had a long running problem with the
search box.
Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
Just now I typed in 4032(2x2 round plate) and it would not bring it up.Tried
it 3 times. Yet when I checked the catalogue manually that is the correct number.
I can go to google to search Lego and 98% of the time just a single search shows
me what I want on the first try.
Thanks.
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Interesting enough 4032b works fine.
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403* works to find 4032.
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| | | | | | | Author: | snapper212 | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2019 23:47 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | | | Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Feb 24, 2019 05:11 | | Subject: | Re: search box repeated problem | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, snapper212 writes:
| | Hi, might be a stupid question, but I have had a long running problem with the
search box.
Is it just me, maybe a browser issue? I am using Chrome.
Just now I typed in 4032(2x2 round plate) and it would not bring it up.Tried
it 3 times. Yet when I checked the catalogue manually that is the correct number.
I can go to google to search Lego and 98% of the time just a single search shows
me what I want on the first try.
Thanks.
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More experienced users are encouraged to use the advanced Catalog Search:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalog.asp
See post: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1129949
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