Could We/Should We .....

cornishpasty1

Could we/should we have a Game Over sub-directory in the Advents section?

I noticed last year that as they expired they went into the normal Game Over section and there is no way (to my knowledge) of easily referring to last years posts.

At least with the old Advents threads they went into Game Over as a job lot and could be found easily.

grannybiker

Do we have a game over?
I miss sending those expired comps into the deep and dark Game Over  !

One-Eye

Here is a Search URL that is pretty good (but not perfect) at finding last year's advents 

It only searches the comp title so it relies on posters following the "rule" of putting the company in the title.

The search below is for "outwell" - you just need to change the final word to what you want.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?domain=discussions&sort=-dateInserted&scope=site&cat=72&adv=1&categoryOptions[0][value]=74&categoryOptions[0][label]=Game Over&categoryOptions[0][data][parentLabel]=Competitions Time&includeChildCategories=true&types[0]=discussion&types[1]=comment&startDate=2020-10-01&endDate=2021-01-03&name=outwell

cornishpasty1

Here is a Search URL that is pretty good (but not perfect) at finding last year's advents 

It only searches the comp title so it relies on posters following the "rule" of putting the company in the title.

The search below is for "outwell" - you just need to change the final word to what you want.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?domain=discussions&sort=-dateInserted&scope=site&cat=72&adv=1&categoryOptions[0][value]=74&categoryOptions[0][label]=Game Over&categoryOptions[0][data][parentLabel]=Competitions Time&includeChildCategories=true&types[0]=discussion&types[1]=comment&startDate=2020-10-01&endDate=2021-01-03&name=outwell

thanks for that @One-Eye, that will certainly help 

so we change the end of the URL, rather than the name in search field?

I don't know why search A: search doesn't pick anything up?

and if I put i.e. "outwell" in the search it does pick up Advent but along with lots of others lol

One-Eye

cornishpasty1 said:

so we change the end of the URL, rather than the name in search field?

I don't know why search A: search doesn't pick anything up?

and if I put i.e. "outwell" in the search it does pick up Advent but along with lots of others lol

1) The search term ("outwell" in this case) goes on the end of the URL and it appears in the "Title" box of the search table on the RHS, not in the main search term box - which is left blank. (Note also the use of the date boxes on the RHS)

2) "A: " does not work as a search term - I believe this is because it is too short. "A: 24/12" works a bit better but excludes other ending dates and still brings up extraneous results. Restricting the dates on the RHS even further would probably help.

3) Using the main "search term" box works as it should, but will of course find all comps that use the requested search term. Again I would recommend using the date boxes on the RHS to cut down on the number of results returned. Using from 2020-12-11 to 2021-1-1 should work well.