Lelands Past Auction Search Function Back Up

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Posted By: scgaynor

You can now once again search auction results back to the year 2000

This is a great reference tool

http://www.lelands.com/auctionresults.aspx

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Why is there no search function that allows you to search all auctions like there used to be? Am I just missing it?

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Posted By: Matt

Dan - it's just bad web design - you'll notice you can pick an auction from the drop down "OR" use the search. When you search it searches all auctions.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Ah....okay. Thanks. I'm dumb.

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Posted By: Matt

Dan - you're not dumb (at least that can't be deduced from this ) - it's not designed correctly.

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Posted By: scgaynor

It is a little vague, I will see if I can get it tweaked.

Scott

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Posted By: Matt

Scott - here is my advice, having written my share of web applications - you've combined two functionalities:
1) Browse by auction
2) Search all auctions

Currently, when the user first comes in, they see a prompt to "select auction" with no mention that doing so is only if they want to browse by auction. If, instead of the generic "select auction" it said "browse past auction" it would help. Even better would be to split the functionalities into different lines:
"Browse past auction:"
OR
"Search all auctions:"

However, the way it is usually designed (this will require some back end changes) is to have "ALL" available in the first listbox. That gives the user the ability to search within any auction or within all past auctions. If the search text is blank, then it just returns all listings for the specified auction.

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Posted By: scgaynor

Good points.

I have sent this thread to the simpleauctionsite guys as they do the hosting for us to see what they can do to make it better.

Thanks again.

Scott