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Stuart Allsop
Stuart Allsop  Identity Verified
Chile
Local time: 16:49
Bahasa Sepanyol hingga Bahasa Inggeris
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Apr 24, 2007

There is a bug in the Term Search feature. I am trying to search for all legal terminology in Spanish which contains the word "fe", a common legal term used in several different ways, but I get an error message saying "Search terms must contain at least 3 characters".

I imagine that this must be a bug, right? It would make no sense at all, from the translator's point of view, to have a lower limit of three characters on the number of characters in a search. Such a restriction ... See more
There is a bug in the Term Search feature. I am trying to search for all legal terminology in Spanish which contains the word "fe", a common legal term used in several different ways, but I get an error message saying "Search terms must contain at least 3 characters".

I imagine that this must be a bug, right? It would make no sense at all, from the translator's point of view, to have a lower limit of three characters on the number of characters in a search. Such a restriction would greatly limit the usefullness of the data base!

Please can someone fix this bug. ▲ Collapse
 
Stuart Allsop
Stuart Allsop  Identity Verified
Chile
Local time: 16:49
Bahasa Sepanyol hingga Bahasa Inggeris
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TOPIC STARTER
On vacation? May 8, 2007

I guess the entire tech support team must be on vacations.... Two weeks, and not even a simple acknowledgment of the problem...
 
justin C
justin C
Amerika Syarikat
Local time: 16:49
Bahasa Inggeris
Due to hardware/software restrictions, at least 3 characters must be entered May 10, 2007

Hi Stuart,

This is not a bug, but a technical restriction of our database software and hardware. Basically, changing the minimum accepted length from three characters to two characters would effectively double the hard disk size of the searchable sections of the database (which is a lot).

Also, when we did have it limited to two characters in the past, many times search results with two characters turned up non-useful results (such as returning "coffee" and "feet" if yo... See more
Hi Stuart,

This is not a bug, but a technical restriction of our database software and hardware. Basically, changing the minimum accepted length from three characters to two characters would effectively double the hard disk size of the searchable sections of the database (which is a lot).

Also, when we did have it limited to two characters in the past, many times search results with two characters turned up non-useful results (such as returning "coffee" and "feet" if you were to search for "fe").

Although, it has been a while since we investigated reducing the number of required characters. Some of the ProZ.com databases were recently upgraded (thank you members!), so implementing a two character minimum could be a possibility. I'll look into this and get back to you here.

Best regards,
Justin ▲ Collapse
 


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