[MITgcm-devel] Fwd: [MITgcm-support] [MITgcm Manual] section Contents

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Martin,

I've just made a little adjustment to the 1rst search tool on
 http://mitgcm.org/public/search.html
Let me know if it fixes/breaks something.

Regarding the search button (in black box) near the top of the main mitgcm.org page:
http://mitgcm.org/
I have no idea how to fix this one (it's at the WordPress level, not rebuilt
every hour or so form script/stuff that are under CVS). 
It currently opens an MITgcm "Not Found" page with the message: 
"Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 08:40:25AM +0100, Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> maybe it’s time again to fix the search fields in the web site? I don’t know how to do that, but I see that on the actual search page:
> <http://mitgcm.org/public/search.html>
> there are two search fields, one that works (the second one for the email archives) and one that does not (the first one).
> The code for the second field (the working one) looks like this:
>       <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method=get>
>         <p>
> 	  <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="forge.csail.mit.edu/pipermail">
>           <input name=q size=40 value="">
>           <input type=submit value="Google Search" name="submit">
>         </p>
>       </form>
> while for the one that does not work, it looks like this:
>       <form action="http://www.google.com/u/MITgcm" method=get>
>         <p>
> 	  <input type=hidden name=domains value="mitgcm.org">
> 	  <input type=hidden name=hq value="inurl:mitgcm.org">
>           <input name=q size=40 value="">
>           <input type=submit value="Google Search" name="submit">
>         </p>
>       </form>
> This is the code for the search form on the top of the documentation that Erick was complaining about:
>   <form action="http://www.google.com/u/MITgcm" method=get>
>     <font size="-1">
>       <input name=q size=20 value="">
>       <input type=hidden name=domains value="mitgcm.org">
>       <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="mitgcm.org">
>       <!-- <input type=submit value="Search" name="submit"> -->
>       <input type=image name="srchbut" src=../images/search.gif alt="Search" align=middle border=0 height=20>
>     </font>
>   </form>
> 
> To my simple mind, it looks like one could just adapt the code for the domain search to the code of the support-list search (i.e. replace 
>   <form action="http://www.google.com/u/MITgcm" method=get>
> with
>       <form action=“http://www.google.com/search" method=get> 
> and
> 	  <input type=hidden name=domains value="mitgcm.org">
> 	  <input type=hidden name=hq value=“inurl:mitgcm.org">
> with
> 	  <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value=“forge.csail.mit.edu”>
> or 
> 	  <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value=“mitgcm.edu”>
> (I remember that the latter hasn’t worked in the past).
> 
> I can try it for this page, but I cannot even figure out where the pages are in the repository.
> 
> Martin
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de>
> > Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] [MITgcm Manual] section Contents
> > Date: March 4, 2014 at 8:13:49 AM GMT+1
> > To: MITgcm Support <mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>
> > Reply-To: <mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>
> > 
> > Hi Erick,
> > 
> > all search functions on the mitgcm web-site are a drag. i don’t know enough about this to fix it, but we I search for something (here “advection”) I usually do this in google’s search field:
> > 
> > site:mitgcm.org advection
> > 
> > and for searching just the support list:
> > site:mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support advection
> > 
> > I am not sure if this is any better than Dimitris’ suggestion, but it usually works for me.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I agree, it would be good if "search" worked.
> >> Until that happens, I just use google.com and precede
> >> queries with "MITgcm" or "MITgcm-support".
> >> 
> >> On Mar 3, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Edwards, Erick (LCDR) <eledward at nps.edu> wrote:
> >>> Comments and questions on page http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/online_documents/node1.html 
> >>> 
> >>> Why doesn’t the “Search” field on the online documentation pages work anymore?  It always gives a “404” error.  It makes it quite difficult to troubleshoot problems if I can’t get results discussing previous, similar problems.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> MITgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> >> http://mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support
> > 
> > 
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