Hi! We have a topic in discourse where protocols from meetings are posted and discussed. Every protocol post starts with “Protokoll der FSR-Sitzung vom dd.mm.yyyy” where dd.mm.yyyy is of course the date of the meeting. Searching for these posts not always results in finding the post. Example: Th…

If you know you are searching within a topic why not use the “search within topic” API? test 25.07.2018 [image] AND [image]

Are both posts in the same topic? I think there is logic that rolls up similar posts found into a single result in the search because it is in the same topic (but I very well could be wrong)

Hi! Thank you for your answer. It’s working that way! Is this documented anywhere? I checked what my browser was requesting to build my URL.

Search for posts gives wrong/incomplete results

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Tiaryn August 24, 2018, 1:08pm 3

Yes, the posts are in the same topic. You could be right but there would be no way to fetch the post I need via API requests in that case. That doesn’t seem right.

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