{"id":2588,"date":"2014-02-14T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:23:42","slug":"ask-a-question-in-answers-with-auto-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2014\/02\/14\/ask-a-question-in-answers-with-auto-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Question in Answers with Auto-suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This week&#8217;s post comes from Kent Millard, the UX Specialist for the MATLAB Answers team.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Quick Answers with Auto-Suggest<\/h2>\n<p><em>by Kent Millard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re wondering how to plot some data contained in a 3D matrix. You&#8217;ve searched high and low to find an answer, but without satisfying results. Finally, you come across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/answers\/\">MATLAB Answers page<\/a> and there it is\u2026 the big blue \u201cAsk a Question\u201d button!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2253\" alt=\"answers-home\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/answers-home.png\" width=\"541\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With gathering excitement, you press the button and begin to type.<\/p>\n<p>This is where it gets interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2254\" alt=\"answers-autosuggest\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/answers-autosuggest.png\" width=\"561\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before you even finish your query, similar questions that have already been answered start to appear. One of these might just have the information you need. If so, you get an instantaneous answer pulled from our database of more than 75,000 answered questions!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Start typing your question\u2014keywords or natural language work equally well. The most relevant, answered questions will appear below. The boxes with numbers tell you how many answers there are to a particular question. Green boxes mean the person asking the question confirmed that one of the answers solved their problem.<\/p>\n<p>Questions with tiny blue icons (it\u2019s a stylized MathWorks logo) have been posted by the MathWorks Support Team, and they always include an answer that solves the problem.<\/p>\n<p>We think auto-suggest will save you time. But rather than read more about it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/answers\/questions\/new\">give it a try<\/a> and tell us what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/answers-home.png\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week&#8217;s post comes from Kent Millard, the UX Specialist for the MATLAB Answers team.<br \/>\nQuick Answers with Auto-Suggest<br \/>\nby Kent Millard<br \/>\nLet\u2019s say you\u2019re wondering how to plot some data&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2014\/02\/14\/ask-a-question-in-answers-with-auto-suggest\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}