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Search facility, Private Messages

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:46 pm
by Mad Mart
Is there a way to search just in your Private Messages?

Re: Search facility, Private Messages

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:04 pm
by triumphdolomiteuk
Yes, scroll down to the bottom of your message list and you'll see a search facility.

Re: Search facility, Private Messages

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:17 am
by Mad Mart
Thanks Andy. I can see where you can display messages or sort them but I don't see a box for typing text to search for?

Re: Search facility, Private Messages

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:14 am
by tony g
Just checked on my messages and I dont have a search box on the bottom of messages? I needed to find a message recently and had to surf through loads until i found it :)

Tony

Re: Search facility, Private Messages

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:09 pm
by Galileo
There's an extension cunningly called "PM Search" for phpBB if the webmaster fancies installing it, used it myself. Failing that, the tedious way is to scroll to the bottom of the page, export each page to a CSV, join them*, open in notepad or Excel and use the built in search, upside is you also get a handy archive.

*open a command prompt, "cd documents" or wherever you saved them, type something like: copy data.csv + data(1).csv + data(2).csv pmhistory.csv