TonyC

... unless one knows how to do it.



Each of the forums and subforums is numbered, and you can select which forums are included or excluded from your New Posts search if you know the number and how to format the request.

1 - ??
2 - Major
3 - Regional
4 - Cargo
5 - Fractional
6 - Corporate
7 - ??
8 - Hiring News
9 thru 20 - ?
21 - Invalid, or Not Accessible to (Non-Moderator) Registered Users
22 thru 29 - ?
30, 31 - Invalid, or ...
32 - ??
33 thru 37 - Invalid ...
38 - Military
39 - ??
40 - Flight Schools and Training
41, 42 - ??
43, 44 - Invalid ...
45 - ??
46, 47 - Invalid
48 - Part 135
49 - Your Photos and Videos
50 - Foreign
51, 52 - Invalid ...
53 - ??
54 thru 57 - Invalid ...
58 - Technical
59 - ??
60, 61 - ??
62 - The Boneyard
63, 64 - ??
65 - Domestic
66 thru 69 - ??
70, 71 - Invalid ...
72, 73 - ??
74 - Invalid
75 - ??
76 - Career Questions
77 - Leaving the Career
78 - Aviation Law
79 - ??
80 thru 84 - Invalid ...
85, 86 - ??
87 - Invalid ...
88, 89, 90 - ??
91 - Part 91 and Low Time
92 - CAL/UAL Merger
93 - Safety
94 thru 96 - ??
97 - Charter
98 - Invalid ...
99, 100 - ??
101 - Site-related problems & requests
102 - Southwest/Airtran Merger
103 - AMR Bankruptcy
104 - Hangar Talk
105 - ??
106 - Delta TA Discussion
107 - Invalid

I harvested the above information using a Search for New Posts specifying a single Forum by number, and seeing what popped up. If there were no New Posts for that particular forum, I would get the "No New Threads" message, so I couldn't tell which forum it was. A new post in that particular forum could reveal which one I was looking at and fill in one of the question marks in the list.

This is the search I used:


[URL]http://airlinepilotforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&include=XX;contenttype=vBForum_Post[/URL]

Notice the part which says, "include=XX". That's where you can choose which Forums you want to search. For example, if you only want to search for New Posts in the Regional forum, you would set that to "include=3". If you want to search Regional, Fractional, and Corporate, use commas to separate the Forums: "include=3,5,6"

The suggestion given to the Original Poster to Subscribe to all the Forums he wants to follow, and then Use the Settings page to perform his search is quite labor intensive and cumbersome. In order to exclude a single forum, he has to mark every other forum.

Using the above search method and the word "exclude" instead of "include", he can accomplish what he wants with far less work. Specifically, he wants to exclude Delta TA Discussion forum, or Forum 106. The following search does exactly that:

[URL]http://airlinepilotforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=106;contenttype=vBForum_Post[/URL]

If he wants to also exclude the CAL/UAL Merger forum, this should work:

[URL]http://airlinepilotforums.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=92,106;contenttype=vB Forum_Post[/URL]


Now, is it possible to give the User that option via a button on the Menu Bar or a Drop-Down Menu item? Absolutely, and it doesn't take a hack. The problem is, every member might want a different "filter" to look at different topics, and the number of buttons required to make everyone happy would also make everyone unhappy about the number of buttons.

But if a sufficient number of people wanted a convenient search filter, it might be something worth considering. Until then, I suggest the Original Poster bookmark one of the links above, or create a custom search to include or exclude the forums of his choice, and use that to quickly filter the forum search to his own taste.






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