Searching Campaign Forums

SkidAce

Is there a way?

Since we use the forums as the ongoing play, before editing and posting as an ADventure Log, we often need to find info.

And paging backwards is...tedious.

Thorvaldr

Within Obsidian Portal? Not to my knowledge. However, Google is of -great- use here. Use the following format:

site:www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/(YOUR CAMPAIGN HERE)/campaign_forum_topics OR site:http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/(YOUR CAMPAIGN HERE)/campaign_forums (YOUR SEARCH TERM HERE, after the space.)

Now, in "theory,":https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/71826?hl=en you should be able to simply wildcard search like this: site:www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/(YOUR CAMPAIGN HERE)/*forum ...but that wasn't working for me just now. The above, although annoyingly longer, seems to work.

So, let's say I wanted to search my forums for anything mentioning the town of Healwud. I would search the following:

"site:www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/tyellador/campaign_forum_topics OR site:http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/tyellador/campaign_forums Healwud":https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Awww.obsidianportal.com%2Fcampaigns%2Ftyellador%2Fcampaign_forum_topics+OR+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.obsidianportal.com%2Fcampaigns%2Ftyellador%2Fcampaign_forums+Healwud

And Google brings up all of the threads/topics that the word "Healwud" has appeared in.

-Thorvaldr
DM of "Tyellador":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/tyellador

SkidAce

It works! Thanks again.

I made a bookmark so all I have to do is change the search term.

Sweet.

Thorvaldr

And that's the smart way to do it! Glad I could help.

-Thorvaldr
DM of "Tyellador":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/tyellador