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| User | Thread poster: N.M. Eklund Can the KudoZ term search function be improved? (staff: 'OK, improvements made') |
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Colin Brady
Australia
Local time: 23:43
French to English
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Hi All,
I just made some updates to the search page.
1. Now you have 100% full control over what fields you want to search - general and specific. (Thanks LittleBalu and Steffen!)
2. The "Ask a KudoZ question" link is now more visible
3. The term is now highlighted after submitting a search. (thanks R Gaspari!)
4. The fields section is a bit large now and many people are complaining about having to scroll down to see the results. This section will now close after executing a search.
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Colin Brady
Australia
Local time: 23:43
French to English
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| | Interest pairs should be included under "My languages" | May 4, 2009 |
Hi Mette,
Yes, if you add pairs as interest languages, they should be searched when using the "My languages" option. Please let me know if that doesn't work for you. Thanks for posting!
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Steffen Walter 
Germany
Local time: 05:43
  Member (2002)
English to German
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| | Great, Colin! | May 5, 2009 |
Keep up the good work!
Best,
Steffen
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LittleBalu
Germany
Local time: 05:43
English to German
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| | Thanks so much, Colin! | May 5, 2009 |
Colin wrote:
Hi All,
I just made some updates to the search page.
4. The fields section is a bit large now and many people are complaining about having to scroll down to see the results. This section will now close after executing a search. |
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That's what we needed, it will make the term search so much more effective! Thanks a lot for hearing us!
There's only one more little thing that's annoying me: Others complain about having to scroll because the fields section is too large. Personally, I find it annoying that I have to "open" the fields section every time I want to change the fields. Would there be any chance of implementing an option like, say, "Fields section always open" by ticking a box (similar to "Discussion board always open" in the KudoZ dashboard)?
Apart from that - great job!
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Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 05:43
Member (2006)
English to French
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Colin wrote:
3. The term is now highlighted after submitting a search. (thanks R Gaspari!)
4. The fields section is a bit large now and many people are complaining about having to scroll down to see the results. This section will now close after executing a search. |
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Hi Colin, thanks for your efforts!
I tried to make several searches, but terms don't appear highlighted and I don't see any size difference (I use Firefox).
Stéphanie
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Irina Dicovsky
Argentina
Local time: 01:43
Member
English to Portuguese
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Colin wrote:
4. The fields section is a bit large now and many people are complaining about having to scroll down to see the results. This section will now close after executing a search. |
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Thank you!!!!
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Comunican
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:43
French to English
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| | not as good as before, in my opinion | May 6, 2009 |
I use Kudoz search a lot and I find this new screen layout confusing.
Also, the search results seem to be slower and less reliable.
I definitely preferred what we had previously... and would be happy to see it come back!
Thanks
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Anke Wiesinger
Germany
Local time: 05:43
Member (2008)
German to English
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I'm not opposed to change, and especially if it includes improvements, but there is one thing that's bugging me big time:
Why does the source language change to any, apparently at random, even though I have entered a specific one and clicked on the search & save settings button???
This is really annoying, and I can't figure out why it is happening, or how to avoid it. Some words are just not to be found in just one language pair, it seems!
Otherwise, I know how much hard work has gone into this, so thank you, and keep up the good work!
[Bearbeitet am 2009-05-06 13:36 GMT]
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Jennifer Baker
United States
Local time: 21:43
Member (2004)
Italian to English
| | would like my language pairs as default | May 6, 2009 |
This may have already been covered, but I am short on time as usual so have not been able to read the entire thread.
I would very much like the term search page to have my language pairs as default when I open the page (as it was before). As is probably true for most translators, I work at a very fast pace and need to have the default languages in place when I open the page. It's a time waster to insert them, and I usually forget the first time around!
Thanks
Jennifer
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Valeria Maria Tafel
Italy
Local time: 05:43
Member (2001)
Italian to English
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| | Same as Jennifer's! | May 6, 2009 |
I loved it as it was a few days ago... with the preferred language pairs!
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Jaime Oriard
Mexico
Local time: 22:43
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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| | Whatever happened to my stored settings and "reverse look up"???? | May 6, 2009 |
I don't mind changing to something better, but this just seems like you guys are playing with it. Changing the interface and options every other day, come on! This platform really could do with an update, but please consider very carefully what options to include and come up with a nice compact UI that is not cluttered with options; 99% of my searches are with just the same options. But include a tab/dropdown/etc with all other options. Please focus on the results and how they are presented. I'd definitely like to see a "search within results" option. An the possibility to use some operators directly in the searchbox (AND OR "" !, etc). And please give us paying members the ability to float the search and results, i.e. the option to get rid of the menus, advertisements (that's why we pay) and other clutter. WAP access would also be great!
Best,
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Jenny Forbes
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:43
Member (2006)
French to English
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| | What on earth have they done to Kudoz term search? | May 6, 2009 |
Comunican wrote:
I use Kudoz search a lot and I find this new screen layout confusing.
Also, the search results seem to be slower and less reliable.
I definitely preferred what we had previously... and would be happy to see it come back!
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I quite agree, Comunican. I tried using Kudoz term search today and it was completely baffling. I couldn't get anything out of it at all in spite of laborious efforts.
Proz staff, please restore it to its former comprehensible format.
Jenny
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Valeria Lagos - Gordon Downie
Spain
Local time: 05:43
 Partial member (2006)
Spanish to English
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| | less results lately | May 7, 2009 |
Lately, I've been getting a lot less results than usual... since the visual interface (or whatever it is called) changed.
A search within results would be IDEAL!!! (for those cases when I get 3,456 results)
[Edited at 2009-05-07 04:30 GMT]
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Niru_50
India
Local time: 10:13
Member (2005)
German to English
| | Language pairs as default | May 7, 2009 |
Jennifer Baker wrote:
I would very much like the term search page to have my language pairs as default when I open the page (as it was before)
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Seconded. When I find a term in KudoZ, I like to read through the discussion, because I don't necessarily choose the answer that got the points When I go back to the term search after this to search for the next term, my settings have disappeared, and I have to enter everything again. So, I agree with Jennifer on this point.
Thanks for all the good work!
Niraja
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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 05:43
Member (2002)
English to German
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| | Search & save settings | May 7, 2009 |
Niraja Nanjundan wrote:
When I go back to the term search after this to search for the next term, my settings have disappeared, and I have to enter everything again. |
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Why is that? Using the "Search & save settings" button instead of just "Search" should solve your problem once and for all.
Steffen
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