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Missing Search option

The top level community forums has a search option, but the subforums (like "Bug Reports & Technical Issues") do not. This makes it less than practical to try and find previous reports of your bug, etc.
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Gold
Forum Champion
The search function on Community Forums is not great, so far. Your suggestion is good for adding search box within the subforum pages. This is more of a "Suggestions" post, rather than "Bug Reports", so a mod might be able to move this post for you. For a tip & workaround -- there is a feature here called Follow This Topic. Look at the top-right of your post. Click "Follow This Topic". If you follow your own bug report topics, or someone else's threads that you want to follow, you'll certainly at least get a Roll20 Notification of new posts. Also everything you follow will be under your Followed Topics. It helps somewhat with this.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Moved to the Suggestions forum.
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DXWarlock
Sheet Author
API Scripter
I second this. I always find it frustrating to find what Im actually looking for. Usually in the API forum mostly. Im trying to find an example, or snippet on something I'm working on in the API, but not being able to search just the API subforum, I get 95% of the results totally unrelated to what i'm after, since my keyword was somewhere in the post. Being able to pick which area you want to search, vs the entire forum itself would be a much nicer option.
1411856489
Gold
Forum Champion
William R. said: Being able to pick which area you want to search, vs the entire forum itself would be a much nicer option. William & Drew & others, try this Google-fu technique. Go to <a href="http://www.Google.com" rel="nofollow">www.Google.com</a> In the search box type this (EXAMPLE), stopwatch site:<a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/46806" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/46806</a> Change the word "stopwatch" to whatever you're looking for. Leave the rest that uses the site: operator offered by Google. After site: put the URL link of the sub-forum you want. In this example I put the API forum link under Site:. Test the Google example I gave above. You'll see that it works for what you wanted. It limits the search to the sub-forum that you want. Your suggestion is still valid, but this Google technique should help you find what you are looking for in the meantime, especially for William's example of API forum needs.