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diff --git a/doc/old/AdvancedSearch.md b/doc/old/AdvancedSearch.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5a9a5a3bc..000000000 --- a/doc/old/AdvancedSearch.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -Advanced Directory Search -========================= - - -Advanced Directory Search is enabled in "Expert Mode" from your Settings => Additional features page. - -On the Directory page an option named "Advanced" will apear in the "Find Channels" widget (typically in the sidebar). Clicking "Advanced" will open another search box for entering advanced search requests. - -Advanced requests include - -* name=xxx -[Channel name contains xxx] - -* address=xxx -[Channel address (webbie) contains xxx] - -* locale=xxx -[Locale (typically 'city') contains xxx] - -* region=xxx -[Region (state/territory) contains xxx] - -* postcode=xxx -[Postcode or zip code contains xxx] - -* country=xxx -[Country name contains xxx] - -* gender=xxx -[Gender contains xxx] - -* marital=xxx -[Marital status contains xxx] - -* sexual=xxx -[Sexual preference contains xxx] - -* keywords=xxx -[Keywords contain xxx] - -There are many reasons why a match may not return what you're looking for, as many channels do not provide detailed information in their default (public) profile, and many of these fields allow free-text input in several languages - and this may be difficult to match precisely. For instance you may have better results finding somebody in the USA with 'country=u' (along with some odd channels from Deutschland and Bulgaria and Australia) because this could be represented in a profile as US, U.S.A, USA, United States, etc... - -Future revisions of this tool may try to smooth over some of these difficulties. - -Requests may be joined together with 'and', 'or', and 'and not'. - -Terms containing spaces must be quoted. - -Example: - - name="charlie brown" and country=canada and not gender=female - - - - - - |