Vanilla issue with input @user references

RichardPayne

Steps:

1) Enter: @username
2) Press enter

The username disappears.

MrC

Drives me batty. Try Escape to break out of the auto complete mode.

Stephen_C

Forum search is, on occasion, dire. Other symptoms of dysfunction:

1. search on some common term or phrase, check the first page of results and go to the second: blank, "no results";
2. on a later page of multi-page results backspace to return to a previous page of search results: blank, "no results";
3. occasionally, search for a word or phrase you know must exist: blank, "no results".

The forum search can be exceptionally frustrating at times.

Stephen

RichardPayne

Try Escape to break out of the auto complete mode.

Have done and also tried clicking out of the textbox and back in again. Both methods work sometimes and no others.

MikeT

Hi guys,

@Stephen_C, the search issues should be fixed now.

@RichardPayne, agreed, it is bad. I've reported it as a bug a while ago, we're still waiting for them to fix it. Right now, what you can do is insert a comma to kill the completion.

Stephen_C

Thanks Mike. Will check and report back as I use it during the day.

Stephen

MikeT

Please do, we've switched to a different search server and flushed our cache. After that, we weren't able to reproduce the issues.

Stephen_C

So far I'm finding search much more reliable and the old issues have not (yet!) reappeared. I'll report back here if they do.

However, I'm finding loss of post numbers beside posts in a thread a little frustrating as it makes cross-referencing within a thread challenging.

Stephen

MikeT

Hi @Stephen_C,

So far I'm finding search much more reliable and the old issues have not (yet!) reappeared. I'll report back here if they do.

That's great to hear.

However, I'm finding loss of post numbers beside posts in a thread a little frustrating as it makes cross-referencing within a thread challenging.

That's a theming issue, we will look into it soon. We're just rolling out the first iteration of the new theme and have been working on improving it since.

If you want to link a comment, you can copy the link from the timestamp if you want. While it's not a unique number since many posts just shows the same date but they are uniquely linked to the comment.

MrC

FYI, until item links are available. Copy the timestamp link, remove the Comment_# part, and replace with the Item_#. You can see the item number in the page's HTML source. Example for MikeT's post above:

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/192937/#Comment_192937

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/192937/#Item_8

MikeT

Hi @MrC,

Thanks! You can also just link it like [comment link][post #] instead of replacing the last part with #Item_ID.

I'll nudge our team once more to fix this sooner.

AGAlumB

@Stephen_C, @MrC, @MikeT: I might be misunderstanding here; if so, forgive me.

I too missed the timestamps (though I see those are back) and the post numbers, but noticed that the time/date to the right of the username actually links to that individual post. Just wanted to throw that out there in case it helps someone else! :)

MrC

testing.

MrC

testing

MrC

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/192970/#Comment_192970

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/192971/#Comment_192971

Yup, they do.

MikeT

Hi guys,

@brenty and @MrC, that's what I meant in my post 6 posts up : that you can copy the link from the timestamp or should I say date/time stamps.

It shows the time if the posts were made within 24 hours of your current time but beyond that, it will change to the date format.