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1gangleri
Edited: Jan 28, 2010, 2:30 pm

I apologize for this! The reason for the incomplete search result can not be a cache issue, the books have been added months a go. It seems to be an inconsistency between the improved new type generation of author url and the search implementation.

example: « search_author.php » for « Herta Müller » lists only the folowing:

1: /author/hertamller&norefer=1
2: /author/mllerherta&norefer=1
3: /author/mullerherta&norefer=1

the folowing is missing:
4: /author/muumlllerherta&norefer=1

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I noticed that the author is not properly combined. 2: is combined with second level
2a: /author/2743184200&norefer=2
2a: /author/matildefracllerherta&norefer=2

I have two questions related to other topics:
a) Would it be possible to recombine the author at the author url #4?
see also: "I wonder if it would be possible to force way these urls are combined. Maybe some LT stuff can post a topic where they can impose the combine levels." at about LT « author url arbitration » ; cases where different author sre sharing an url
b) I posted a topic about inheriting « Common Knowledge » from second level author url's to top level author url's but I can not find that topic any more.
Is such a feature available in the meantime?

Best regards Reinhardt

2gangleri
Jan 28, 2010, 2:16 pm

re: b) I posted a topic about inheriting « Common Knowledge » from second level author url's to top level author url's but I can not find that topic any more.
Is such a feature available in the meantime?


here it is: discrepancy about common knowledge that should be inherited

I could not find it because of topic « search_talk.php » does not search topic titles; it soearch only the message content.

search link: search_talk.php?searchbox=gangleri+inherit