As far as I can tell, there is no way to search a particular forum.  I agree, this is a huge step backwards.  The designers were so enthralled with networking and tags that they seem to ignored the basics entirely.

Amen to that. 

Talk about something that almost every open source PHP CMS has available is searching by individual forums.  I could care less about Vmware install woes except with the Dell Management console to see if they have resolved the issue, but good luck searching that term very effectively.

It's one reason I'm not very active on their community forums.  Who cares when you're sifting through this much information and just want to know about X.  Google it and find it somewhere else much more effectively than Dell's own forums.

Whenever you go on a forum these days, it's expected that you've already "STFF'ed" (search the freakin forum). Guess that doesn't apply to this forum?

The search function on this forum is a pathetic excuse that might have passed as acceptable in 1990. No boolean operators, no phrase searches, no limiting the search to specific forums, and searching for just about anything will give you thousands of pages of irrelevant results, with the one result you might want possibly mixed somewhere in there somewhere.

It makes this community much less of a valuable resource. People will come on here asking questions that have likely been asked over and over, simply because searching for the info you want under such outdated and useless searching is pointless.

Come on Dell, you can do better than this.

-fmillion

nepotism,

Dell is working to correct this as we speak. There will be changes to the Dell Community and the changes will make the forums better for all of us. One of the changes is to fix search. If I remember correctly, you will be able to search a forum. There will also be a subscribe/unsubscribe button, which will make many members happy being able to unsubscribe to a thread.

These changes will not be put into place until the holidays are over.

Is there something you want to search for inparticular? If you put the most critical Keywords in order in the search bar, it does seem to hep with finding some threads.

Rick