568330 - [k] Multiple-tag searches don't appear to work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 644859

(support.mozilla.org :: Search, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

STR:

Setup:

1. https://support-stage-new.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+the+Flash+plugin has the following tags:

flash
plugins
installation
upgrade

2. Firing off search that searches for all those tags: https://support-stage-new.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=&language=en-US&category=1&category=17&category=18&tags=flash%2C+installation%2C+plugins%2C+upgrade&a=1&w=1 won't find that article

If you limit to *one* of those tags, it finds it just fine.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Not sure how crucial this is. It's a bit esoteric (are people actually using it?) and when we get to 2.2 we'll be completely revamping this anyway, so I'd rather not spend time on it now if it can wait.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

It can wait; the fact that nobody's complained about this (or, at least, filed a bug), makes me think it's not heavily used.

Comment 3

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

tiki issue.

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

sorry, shpinx issue I mean.

Comment 5

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Actually, this is a problem with ES, too. The instructions in the Advanced Search form say to separate tags with commas, but the code (both the Sphinx and ES code) was splitting on white space characters.

This problem also causes bug #644859, namely you can't do a search for questions tagged with "Windows 7" because it's splitting tags incorrectly.

I think this issue is worth fixing for the use case in bug #644859. I think I'll just make this a duplicate of that bug.