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Changes to CWGC Search Engine| PaulReed |
 Posted: September 07, 2009 05:05 pm
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Note that today, un-announced, the CWGC completely changed the way its search engine operates. There is a new URL for searches:
http://www.cwgc.org/Search-Our-Records.aspx The syntax for the URL of all casualty entries has also changed, which means all previous CWGC links to casualties do not work. This means things like Geoff's Search Engine does not function anymore. On the plus side all pages can now be downloaded in pdf format, but in some respects that is more of a gimmick than anything really useful. Must say I find this surprising, and not a little frustrating. -------------------- Passchendaele Remembered: my new site for the 90th Anniversary - http://www.ypres-1917.com/
"He saw beyond the filth of battle and thought death a fair price to pay to belong to the company of these fellows..." |
  
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| schiptje |
Posted: September 07, 2009 06:07 pm
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Member Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 317 Joined: July 09, 2009 |
That's bad news indeed...
It's true, all posted links at different forums I'm on, don't work anymore... :wacko: |
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| jainvince |
Posted: September 07, 2009 10:45 pm
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And I thought that Geoff had spent a considerable amount of effort in re-doing his search engine. For me it will also cause a problem as my preferred Web Browser objects to pdf downloads!
Just tried it, don't like it as much as previously. Bernard |
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| Nigel Marshall |
Posted: September 08, 2009 01:48 pm
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My PC at work never did like CWGC and took forever to open a page, but now that the site has changed I cannot get past the incessant error messages. I hope for better results at home.
Thank goodness I resisted the urge to include hyperlinks to the site in my database! I hope the change is the ground floor of something much bigger in the improvements department, otherwise it will be change for the sake of change, and I have never seen the point of that. I will wait and see. Cheers, Nigel -------------------- Remembering the men of Barwick in Elmet & Scholes, Leeds who left all that was dear to them and did not return.
Also the Kilkenny Brothers; Sapper Andrew Cyril (Syd) Kilkenny, Royal Engineers Signals. Died 22:11:1918, at Alexandria. Buried in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. My Great Uncle. 1885 - 1918 2253 Corporal Frederick Louis Kilkenny, 1/8 (Leeds Rifles) Bn, then 3/8 & 7 (Res) Bn West Yorkshire Regiment, a survivor. 1895 - 1962. My Grandfather. Group Captain John Callistus Kilkenny, OBE, RAF. A pioneer of parachute training during WWII and RAF Chief Physical Training Instructor during the 1950s. My Great Uncle 1908 - 1995. Remembering my first son, Bailey Andrew Louis Marshall, 31 December 2005 - 2 February 2006. A warrior. Celebrating my second son Benjamin Bailey Athol Marshall (Ben), born on 5th January 2007. A Heartbreaker for all the right reasons. WFA 9323 |
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| PaulReed |
Posted: September 09, 2009 02:37 pm
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They have reverted to the old Search for now, and so Geoff's SE is working again, but use it while you can, as I suspect the 'new' version will return very soon and Geoff's work will once again be redundant.
-------------------- Passchendaele Remembered: my new site for the 90th Anniversary - http://www.ypres-1917.com/
"He saw beyond the filth of battle and thought death a fair price to pay to belong to the company of these fellows..." |
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