Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

Not really useful for inclusion searches as the search

True, which is why I focussed on the exclusion searches. Often people ask for the title of a story they can't find and I use the search engine to look for it for them. In those cases the exclusion capabilities are extremely useful, but it's such a pain to have to tick a reject for all the fetishes etc when what they remember of the story makes it clear those don't apply, ditto with the paranormal, and many other of the groups.

Yes, but sometimes it would be nice to do an inclusive search using an inclusive or rather than and.

The way the search engine works is two fold, if it's not excluded it's automatically included. If the inclusion option is listed then it's given a priority in the listing. That's why I requested both the + and the - in the request. That way you can give the group as a whole either an exclusion or a priority inclusion. The current system does both of these (which includes what you want) but you have to do it category by category, what I'm asking for is the ability to do it group by group and make the ticking quicker and easier. If set up as I ask you can include one group and exclude another, just as you do now with the categories. It shouldn't be that hard to do, incorporate the two box and the code simply transfers the actions in the boxes to the boxes for everything in the group. Years ago I set up something like this in some data entry forms for databases in dBase IV, Oracle, and MS Access.

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