Searching the unsearchable

You probably know about the twitter hashtag “bcalhelp” .. A way for you to ask help on twitter about anything AL for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Well – yesterday, it made me smile … there was someone that was trying to find something on Vjeko’s blog.  Pretty clever to use the bcalhelp for it :-), because he immediately got response.  Here is the twitter thread (if you can call a question/answer a thread ;-)):

You see that “trickynamics” got immediate response from “Marton Sagi” .. And if you don’t know Marton Sagi – then you probably realize that you actually do, because it’s the guy behind the AL Object Designer – one you should add to your VSCode Extensions ;-).

Anyway – not being able to search Vjeko’s blog is something that needs to be fixed.  It’s unthinkable.  So I decided to contribute to that – and I would encourage all the social-engaged people in the community to blog or share this one on all levels ;-).

How to search Vjeko’s Blog:

Well, it’s a wordpress blog, and every wordpress blog can be searched by adding “/?s=querystring“.  Just try to search my blog on the top right, and see what URL you get.  A similar thing you can do with vjeko’s blog.

So, a few examples:

You get the picture 😉

How come the search is removed?  Doesn’t Vjeko want us to search his blog anymore?

Well, I talked to him, and he is actually in the process of moving his blog to his own server – and moving a wordpress apparently comes with some challenges .. so let’s give him some time, I guess ;-).

Disclaimer

Yes, with all the heavy content out there, I thought it was time for a lightweight article – which is mainly meant as a joke to put a smile on some faces ;-). Enjoy…

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    • Matthias König / trickynamics on March 5, 2020 at 8:18 am
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    trickynamics here and you put someone a smile into his face and then I felt sorry for vjeko 😅
    Vjeko, if you read this article: I tried to send you a direct message via twitter but this option was also not activated xD

    • Jakob on March 5, 2020 at 10:07 am
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    Oooor you could use Google or many other search engines using the “site:” keyword. So the website you are searching does not even have to implement search:
    site:vjeko.com Business Central
    https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avjeko.com+business+central

  1. Guys, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ll fix this promptly… Or a bit less so. The theme I chose doesn’t have a built-in search capability so I have to hack something out. Given how much time I have on my hands these days, this may come a bit later, rather than sooner, but let’s see.

    Thanks, Waldo, bro!

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