Filtering forum search results by date

eskbanker

Apologies if this has already been reported elsewhere (couldn't find anything) but the ability to filter forum searches by date appears not to work anymore - I couldn't say when it last did but am sure that it's been working at some point since the last major forum migration.

I'm conscious that search results can be ordered to return newest first, but for searching historical stuff, e.g. posts made during the first 2020 Covid lockdown, the filtering options of updated from <date> and/or to <date> appear to make no difference at all to the results.

One-Eye

You are correct - it is no longer working, and like you, I rarely use the date range function so I don't know when it stopped working. The search below returns 304 results, but only the first 39 are from the date range specified.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?domain=discussions&amp;query="(MD)"&amp;sort=-dateInserted&amp;scope=site&amp;cat=72&amp;adv=1&amp;search="(MD)"&amp;categoryOptions[0][value]=72&amp;categoryOptions[0][label]=Competitions time&amp;categoryOptions[0][data][parentLabel]=Forum Home&amp;types[0]=discussion&amp;types[1]=comment&amp;startDate=2022-09-21&amp;endDate=2022-09-26&amp;source=community

MSE_James

Thank you for this - I am about to log this in our internal issue-tracking system.

I will post back here when there is further news.

MSE_James

Our software providers have identified the issue and we expect the issue to be resolved in the next few weeks - I'll post another update when the relevant software release goes live.

MSE_James

The latest release of the forum software is now live - I've done a quick check and filtering searches by date seems to be working again.

@eskbanker and @One-Eye please could you take a look and see if you're now seeing the results you would expect?

One-Eye

MSE_James said:

The latest release of the forum software is now live - I've done a quick check and filtering searches by date seems to be working again.

@eskbanker and @One-Eye please could you take a look and see if you're now seeing the results you would expect?

I've done a few brief tests and they worked OK. 

eskbanker

One-Eye said:

MSE_James said:

The latest release of the forum software is now live - I've done a quick check and filtering searches by date seems to be working again.

@eskbanker and @One-Eye please could you take a look and see if you're now seeing the results you would expect?

I've done a few brief tests and they worked OK. 

Same here, thanks for the fix....

MSE_James

Thanks for checking - much appreciated