Android Question Searching the Forum...

[William Hunter]

I can find no way of searching the forum. Whatever happened to the great B4A app for doing this? No longer having that capability is a great loss.

 

[RandomCoder]

I can find no way of searching the forum. Whatever happened to the great B4A app for doing this? No longer having that capability is a great loss.

If you are referring to this https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ew-and-search-the-documentation-offline.7393/ then it looks like it is no longer available and it is recommended to use the on-line search tool.
If you are having difficulties locating the on-line search tool it might be because you need to scroll all the way to the right of the menu bar to see the search box when viewing on a phone or tablet. At least that's what happens on my devices, it's always much wider that the rest of the page

 

[DonManfred]

Ye

At least that's what happens on my devices, it's always much wider that the rest of the page

s. It is not funny to read the forum on a phone

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Ye

s. It is not funny to read the forum on a phone

I hope you meant: "Its not fun to read the forum on a phone"
Nevertheless it was funny!

 

[RandomCoder]

I spend most of my time on the forum using either a phone or a tablet. Reading posts is not so bad but replying to or creating new threads can be a nightmare, especially when the predictive text kicks in,

 

[Roger Daley]

I often resort to Google and enter "B4A query..... etc. ". It can be quicker than the forum search tool. A world info in the forum but not always easy to find.

 

[William Hunter]

My thanks to all who replied. While I did appreciate starting my day with a few chuckles, as elicited by DonManfred and thedesolatesoul, RandomCoder was spot-on with his observations.

I do miss the B4A HelpViewer. It was like having an encyclopedia directed solely at B4A. What a great resource. I had a computer die, and when setting up a new system I was quite miffed that the HelpViewer was nowhere to be found.

 

[Peter Simpson]

@Erel used to have the Tapatalk plug-in connected to the old forum (2 forum designs ago). For some strange reason when Erel changed the forum a couple of years ago he never added the Tapatalk plug-in to that forum and he has not added it to this new updated forum design either. I find that to be a complete shame as I personally preferred to use the Tapatalk app on my phone rather than using the browser on my phone when browsing forums when I'm not in my house, I use Tapatalk with a number of forums on my phones and tablets. I have brought this topic up previously but it has fallen on deaf ears

It's not difficult to add the Tapatalk plug-in to XenFono forums templates and it only takes a few minutes to do. I know Erel is an extremely busy person, but IMO not having the Tapatalk plug-in connected to this community is a shame

 

[Erel]

The reasons that Tapatalk was not added are:

1. (major) There were many discussions in Xenforo community about security issues related to this plug-in.
2. (minor) The search engine and other features (like similar threads) are custom features so they will not work at all with this plug-in.

 

[Peter Simpson]

I though that the security issues were all or mainly fixed @Erel, but then again there will always be issues with the Tapatalk plug-in and security, I've had small issues with that plug-in myself. Anyway that really does not matter as it's obvious that you will not be adding the plug-in in future, that's a real shame