It can search whatever you want, forums or subforums. I was just pointing out and giving examples how to search the SUBforums as well.. one only need to select them.
we will soon look into why/if there are no items with the given search term in the specific parent forum on that category..
then your original search is indeed the right one. As stated above, we will look to see why there are no results for that one..
You are not rude at all for pointing out things.
Thats something you are able to do as said. As for whether or not you can do if from the forum page or not, this is not something that relates to BoardTracker directly, but to the page on Disboards. This is doable though.
Searching for a specific word in the title only, is possible now with the new version.
When you want to search a word in the title only, put "Title:" before the word.. Note - Capital T.
Here is an example..
Searching canada in both the Title and the Post:
http://www.disboards.com/searchbt.php?search=canada&order=1&user=&scope=4&cat=1&frm=-1
Searching canada in both the Title ONLY:
http://www.disboards.com/searchbt.php?search=Title:canada&order=1&user=&scope=4&cat=1&frm=-1
As demonstrated above, BoardTracker succeeds in both. Can you show how/where it doesn't? Or confirm that it does?
Here is how...
First, note that it might be that the specific post/thread you are looking at is not (yet) in BoardTracker index. This happens sometimes in general, and more specifically - now when its in beta. But it should all be in it eventually..
Back to the issue.. You can search by date. Grated, it is while we stabilize the system, a little sensitive when it comes to date-base ordering, but you can indeed to that..
The following is searching for MVMCP, date ordered
http://www.disboards.com/searchbt.php?search=MVMCP&order=0&user=&scope=4&cat=1&frm=-1
Note that there are actually newer posts about this subject than the post you mentioned..
BoardTracker has also the ability to limit searches to OPs (original posts) only. While this is not yet enabled in the interface on DisBaords, its possible. Here is a direct link to such a search, still date-ordered..
http://www.disboards.com/searchbt.php?search=MVMCP&order=0&user=&scope=4&cat=1&frm=-1&isop=1
There are actually many features in the new BooardTracker search that are very interesting..
For example, when you are searching for 'talk', it gives you results for 'talking', 'talks', 'talked' etc.. You can force the search to look for 'talk' only by searching for the word with a capital first letter (Talk).
And there are many other features..
Hope it helps and hopes it changes some of your views about BoardTracker search.