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Posted by: -Umbrage- Feb 17 2009, 11:29 PM

I ran across a bit of an annoyance. I was trying to search for a 3 character word and was informed that it wasn't allowed, 4 characters were the minimum. So the result was that I couldn't search for all the threads containing "FAQ". (which I thought was a reasonable term to search for)

Any possibility of lowering the minimum to 3 characters instead of 4?

Posted by: Redjack Feb 18 2009, 05:41 AM

This is a limit of MySQL, not of the forum software.

Posted by: -Umbrage- Feb 18 2009, 07:42 AM

QUOTE (Redjack @ Feb 17 2009, 11:41 PM)

This is a limit of MySQL, not of the forum software.

Ah, that makes it a bit more involved having to change the ft_min_word_len could be altered and deleted/created the fulltext indexes. Maybe something to put on the list for the next time a major version upgrade/conversion happens.

Posted by: Dashifen Feb 18 2009, 05:46 PM

Unfortunately, since we use a third-party forum package, we don't really get to specify such things. Redjack: Do you know of a suggestion box for the invisionboard software where -Umbrage- could send his idea?

Posted by: Redjack Feb 19 2009, 02:44 AM

It is nothing for Invision to change. As to changing MySQL, I have to vote against that.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Feb 22 2009, 03:11 PM

Is there any chance of getting the Search to simply discard (with a little warning) too-short queries instead of throwing up all over itself and making you delete bits by hand?

~J