Status changed to Installed by

Thank you for the suggestion. This feature is now available in the new OCLC Community Center. Community members can now conduct searches that search across the entire site. The dropdown on the global search is scoped to search the entire community by default. To target searches, community members may select from the dropdown options to limit their search results to a particular board or type of content. We appreciate your feedback!

Stephen_Pilon
Community Member
Status: Installed

Description of Enhancement


Allow searches across all sections of the OCLC Community Center, not just the current module.


Issues Enhancement Will Resolve


Currently, if you want to search for a topic that may be discussed in multiple forums, you must repeat that search in each of the forums. By having a cross-forum search function, users could do one search to find all the posts related to that search, no matter which forum has them. As an example, I've been searching the topic of Inventory, and how people are making use of it (or not). Inventory can easily be part of Circulation, Collection or Record Management, Discovery, ILL, and more. Having to search each forum is clunky and ineffective.


Current Workaround


Search each forum, and pull hair out.

3 Comments
Candace_Lebel
Community Member
Yes, please streamline searching.
Status changed to: Planned
AnnaJones-OCLC
OCLC staff · Community manager
OCLC staff · Community manager
 
Status changed to: Installed
AnnaJones-OCLC
OCLC staff · Community manager
OCLC staff · Community manager

Thank you for the suggestion. This feature is now available in the new OCLC Community Center. Community members can now conduct searches that search across the entire site. The dropdown on the global search is scoped to search the entire community by default. To target searches, community members may select from the dropdown options to limit their search results to a particular board or type of content. We appreciate your feedback!