Duplicate Resource FAQs should be searchable

Mr Lucky · Jul 17, 2024

Many resources have FAQs which are obviously supposed to be frequently asked questions,

So It makes no sense that when someone does a search for one of those questions, these FAQs do not come up in the search results.

Alpha1 · Jul 17, 2024

JFYI. Here is a related suggestion I posted well over a decade ago:

Thread 'Add a 'Questions' tab to the RM'

Mar 12, 2013

In time the discussion threads of addons will get massive with thousands of posts, making it next to impossible to find answers. The same questions will keep reappearing.

Consider Yahoo answers or stackechange where the purpose of threads is to ask questions and to get answers.
It would be very useful if the resource manager would have questions functionality, so that:

users can enter a question about a resource and others can answer it.
before posting a question the system serves up possible answers.
1 question per question.
best answer is chosen.
the most popular...

If it would be possible to post questions and answers to the RM, then obviously those should be searchable. A different approach to address the same issue: Making it easy to find Frequently Asked Questions before posting these.

I don't have hope it will ever be implemented though, because if they wanted to do so, they would have done it in the last decade.

Alpha1 · Jul 17, 2024

Actually, this is a duplicate suggestion. The FAQs Tab on Resources here on XenForo.com is a custom field. A Custom Field via the Core XF Custom Fields System that you suggest to be searchable. That is exactly what I suggested here:

Thread 'Search & Filter Custom fields'

Jan 4, 2018

I would like to be able to search custom fields and also to be able to filter on custom fields.
There are a lot of situations where this would be very handy. In some cases it would allow us to merge forums and just use custom fields instead.

For example: in the bug reports forums here there is a custom field for XF version.
It would be handy if you could search or filter for all bugs for a specific version.

Additionally: it could be taken a step further and make the custom field hotlinked to the search. So to take the example of XF version field, you could add a field for 'fixed version'...

This is actually a top 10 voted suggestion for XenForo. (125 votes)

Mr Lucky · Jul 18, 2024

Alpha1 said:
Actually, this is a duplicate suggestion.

I disagree. My suggestion is in regard to Resource FAQs being included in the main xenForo search system.

I would specifically suggest custom thread fields (which from a user point of view are very much not the same) should NOT be in the search. Although filters would be a good idea.

This suggestion was actually moved to the resource suggestions forum presumably because it was viewed as primarily about resources, not thread fields.

Alpha1 · Jul 18, 2024

I can understand the confusion about this as it doesn't seem the same from an end users perspective, but the resource FAQ technically is a custom field. RM uses the xf core custom fields functionality. If you want the resource FAQ to be searchable, then custom fields need to be searchable. Because its technically the same thing.

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