• All submissions to this site are governed by Second Life Project Contribution Agreement. By submitting patches and other information using this site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to those terms.
Issue Details (XML | Word | Printable)

Key: VWR-12342
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Normal Normal
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Carl Wilder
Votes: 0
Watchers: 0
Operations

If you were logged in you would be able to see more operations.
1. Second Life Viewer - VWR

"Search" for people really broken logic

Created: 11/Mar/09 03:59 AM   Updated: 11/Mar/09 07:02 AM
Return to search
Component/s: Search
Affects Version/s: 1.21
Fix Version/s: None

Environment:
CPU: Dual i386 (Unknown) (2500 MHz)
Memory: 4096 MB
OS Version: Darwin 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Issue Links:
Duplicate
 
Relates
 


 Description  « Hide
when using the "People" tab in Search the logic applied really seems to be broken.

Nine times out of ten, you can remember someones first name, and maybe the first letter of their last name. So I might, for example, search for "John D".

But SL doesnt allow this. Apparently one-letter name searches are not allowed, so it throws away the "D" and i get a list of ALL the John's in SL. I dont understand the logic to this at all. How does it help me?

To make matters worse, results arrive in blocks of 100 sorted by some logic that escapes me, since each page contains SOME "John's" whose name begins with "D", but not all. So first SL gives my far too many results by throwing away the "D", then it makes me wade thru page after page of names looking for last names that start with "D".

so....

1. Allow single letters in first/last name matches
2. Returns results in alphabetical order



 All   Comments   Change History      Sort Order: Ascending order - Click to sort in descending order
Harleen Gretzky added a comment - 11/Mar/09 04:58 AM
There is a bug JIRA for the single letter search issue, see VWR-5372.