Searching the Database (Opus) (1 Viewer)

Searching the database (Opus) seems to be case-sensitive.

That is, if I search for "Bay-chested Warbling-Finch" I get to the photo in the database, but if I search for "Bay-chested Warbling-finch" I DO NOT GET to the photo in the database.

Is this what was intended?

If so, I'm quite disappointed, because I think that will lead to a lot of duplicate entries, which will be a real pain to unravel and put back together.

It also means that people will not find species that they should find.

It seems to me that the search should be taking uppercase(search-string) and comparing against uppercase(bird-species-name).

Peter

For the last few days I've been searching using all lower case and have had no problem. I tried your bird in all lower case and got this page:
http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Special:Search?search=bay-chested+warbling-finch&go=Go

When you scroll down it lists 18 birds with some combination of those words and yours actually comes up first. You can click on that link to get to the page. It also works if you type it in as you did.

Helen--

You are, of course, correct.

I was referring to the first message that appears at the top (before the Articles hits list):

"There is no page titled "bay-chested warbling-finch". You can create this page. "

I'm concerned that people won't know that this message does NOT imply that there is no such photo in the database.

Perhaps, the phrasing can be made less generic, with more indications about what is meant by that message.

Also, if you do happen to use the fully correct spelling and capitalization, you will go STRAIGHT to the bird picture and NOT to this generic page that points you at a list of possible hits.

I should have been more precise in my initial observation and complaint. My concern is still that people will unnecessarily create new pages, where they only meant to determine if such-and-such a bird was in the database.

Thanks for pointing out the incomplete nature of my initial posting.

Peter