Aaaarrrgggh!! Fix the Search tool!!! PLEASE!!

[altenbach]

I challenge anyone to find the LabVIEW 2014 help page for the "reshape array function" using the NI search tool.

It cannot be done!!!! (without using google).

1. Enter the term "Reshape Array Function" into the search box in the upper right of the NI.com page.
2. Nothing useful returned. Just pages and pages of other things.
3.  Try to narrow it down by clicking on "online help" on the left.
4. We are left with 9 hits, none point to the help page.

Now we try "Reshape Array Function 2014". Nothing useful. we cannot even narrow it down to "online help", because there is apparently no match at all.

Using google for "Reshape Array Function 2014": Second hit is a perfect match!! 😄 (first one is for matlab :().

Please fix this!

I often try to point to relevant help pages in my forum posts, but they are impossible to find. Sure, using google is a workaround, but it should not be necessary!

[Kenn_N]

Thanks Altenbach, I am looking into why some of the pages from that manual aren't in the search index. I did add that specific URL back the others should come shortly, it's only a few.

[JÞB]

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@altenbach wrote:

I challenge anyone to find the LabVIEW 2014 help page for the "reshape array function" using the NI search tool.

It cannot be done!!!! (without using google).

1. Enter the term "Reshape Array Function" into the search box in the upper right of the NI.com page.
2. Nothing useful returned. Just pages and pages of other things.
3.  Try to narrow it down by clicking on "online help" on the left.
4. We are left with 9 hits, none point to the help page.

Now we try "Reshape Array Function 2014". Nothing useful. we cannot even narrow it down to "online help", because there is apparently no match at all.

Using google for "Reshape Array Function 2014": Second hit is a perfect match!! 😄 (first one is for matlab :().

Please fix this!

I often try to point to relevant help pages in my forum posts, but they are impossible to find. Sure, using google is a workaround, but it should not be necessary!

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[ThiCop]

It indeed seems to be fixed.

[Kenn_N]

Update: We did find a root cause of some missing content that caused this issue. It should be solved soon. It's impact was limited to the online help content.

[altenbach]

I have found another search failure for the online help: Try to search for the Active Cell property (yes, I finally found the link by chance! :D) of a table. 

All we get are all the more specific active cell properties. (of course it might appear after page and pages, but my head is spinning already from all the similarly named results).

It seems the most general result is downweighted in favor of all the more specific results. Searching google for "active cell labview" gives the correct result as first entry (only the 2011 version, but that's good enough. :D)