search bug

Click on Search

Click on More search options

Type in a username for example to search for

press search

search results are retrieved, and spread over pages.

Click on "next page" and you will get this error:

Invalid search criteria!

Search expects at least two characters! Please try again with valid criteria

[387 byte] By [ahmedilyas] at [2007-12-22]
# 1
ahmedilyas wrote:

Click on Search

Click on More search options

Type in a username for example to search for

press search

search results are retrieved, and spread over pages.

Click on "next page" and you will get this error:

Invalid search criteria!

Search expects at least two characters! Please try again with valid criteria

I tried it a few times (with user names with spaces and without). The only time I could get it to happen was with your user name.
PeterRitchie at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 2

LOL really?

wow, something must be wrong :-/ What have I done to be so different?

Feel so special now

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 3

Hi,

I have tested with your user name too. But i could not repro this bug. Do you still face this problem?

Thank you,
Bhanu.

BhanuPrakashNunna-MSFT at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 4
Thanks for the reply Mr.Nunna - yes I still have this problem (with my username in the search criteria)
ahmedilyas at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 5

Bhanu,

this is the same issue I noticed yesterday. Not sure if you had a look at it.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=545249&SiteID=1

Click ahmedilyas name to go to the profile
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/User/Profile.aspx?UserID=9969&SiteID=1

Click search to get posts
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/Search.aspx?words=&CSVUserID=OTk2OQ==&SiteID=1

Click next to get next page of search results...
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/search.aspx?lcid=1033&words=&idx=1&pgsize=10&SiteID=1&localechoice=9&searchscope=&ForumID=-1&ForumGroupID=-1&CSVUserID=9969

BANG!

Invalid search criteria!

Search expects at least two characters! Please try again with valid criteria

AndreasJohansson at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 6

*phew* someone else also spotted it

can I still declare my username as being special?

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...
# 7

We are all special!

AndreasJohansson at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Feedback for forums and MSDN websites,Bug Reports for Forums website...