Search facility

[scatty mare]

Is this designed not to work in the sub-categories? For example, a search for 'family' in genealogy will give no results, but a search for the same word in history gives nearly 5000. This question's probably been posted before, but I wouldn't know how to check.

[dot.hawkes]

I think you are right about the sub-categories not supporting the topic search option, I know that if you search from the AB home page it searches all topics, but in the individual topics you can only search that topic, I guess the sub-categories are all searched too, but are only searchable from the main topic page.

[AB Editor]

Hello scatty mare, thank you for spotting it. Our techies have just fixed it. At the moment searching within sub-categories gives the same results as searching within the parent category, i.e. when you search family in History you will get the same search results as when you search in Genealogy.

We are working on making the search even more specific.

[jno]

well, don't make it too specific, people can't always remember exactly which subcategory had the thing they were looking for. It would be nice if results came up in date order (most recent first); at present they're all over the show.