[Ariel]

I'm trying to find fics to nominate for an upcoming award. I've always noticed that when I do a search on this site, if I get more than one page of results, I can never get to any page past the first one. When I click on any of the other page numbers at the bottom of my search results, I get a page with nothing on it, even if there seemed to be more than one more page of results.

Does anyone else have this issue?

Ariel

[Rhapsody]

Just tested the search function (characters: Maglor, result 3 pages) and I can easily navigate between the first, second and third page. I don't know, maybe it are your browser settings?

[Sulriel]

As far as I remember, I've always been able to go to the next page, but I was also looking for a story, something by a particular author and noticed that the number of fics listed on the page was less than the little number of 'stories' in the profile ... don't know if it's a related problem since these were less than one page.

Becky

[Ariel]

OK, try this search...

http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/search.php?searchfanfic=1&for=&all=1&stitles=on&ssummary=on&sbody=&author=&chars=Frodo&s_type=99&addcat=0&ssubid=0&rate=3&ratewhat=1&nowip=1&drabbles=0&sortby=0&sortorder=0

When it first comes up, you are on the first page of the search and it tells you you have 5 pages of results. However, when I go to page two, I find the following result...

http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/search.php?searchfanfic=1&for=&chars=Frodo&s_type=99&nowip=1&rate=3&sortby=0&sortorder=0&pagenum=2

Which only shows 2 pages of results to what I assume is the same search. However, if I chose 'End' or page 3 on the first page search, I get the following page.

http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/search.php?searchfanfic=1&for=&chars=Frodo&s_type=99&nowip=1&rate=3&sortby=0&sortorder=0&pagenum=5

It's strange. I am not sure if the first page is right or if the second one is. That was why I thought maybe it might be a bug. Try those links and see if you get the same or different result than I did.

Thanks,

Ariel

[Sulriel]

no, you're right, it doesn't seem to be displaying correctly.

it says five pages, but only displays two, and different results if you click foward and back.

[Ariel]

Hmm... Well, at least I'm not crazy. :p

Thanks for checking it out. I've always had problems with searches on this site but the one that I always ran up against (searching the All Stories list) was fixed quite a while ago. When I found this one, I figured maybe it could be fixed too.

[Rhapsody]

When I search on Frodo (no wips, no drabbles) I get about 11 pages of results and I can navigate easily.

http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/search.php?searchfanfic=1&for=&all=1&stitles=on&ssummary=on&sbody=&author=&chars=Frodo&s_type=99&addcat=0&ssubid=0&rate=0&ratewhat=0&nowip=1&drabbles=1&sortby=0&sortorder=0

http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/search.php?searchfanfic=1&for=&all=1&stitles=on&ssummary=on&sbody=&author=&chars=Frodo&s_type=99&addcat=0&ssubid=0&rate=3&ratewhat=0&nowip=1&drabbles=1&sortby=0&sortorder=0

But I've been playing around a bit and the search results get different or wonky once you change something around the drabbles. My guess is, since this feature was added later on, that it has a bit of troubles with the search engine. But that is my guess. There might be something else going on.

[dolarabee]

Programmer Guy isn't around at the mo to check any of this out. We ask that you bear with us... and remind us should we forget when we get back home.

Many thanks,

do.

[Ariel]

No problem. I run up against it periodically and that ought to remind me to remind you. Thanks for looking into this.