# Better searching by solved status
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146 "2020-03-03T00:52:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Walkom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Walkom)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/1 "2020-03-03T00:52:07Z")
I had [a twitter conversation](https://twitter.com/alicynx/status/1234638840939212800) with a user of ours who was frustrated with us auto-closing topics (without solutions) and the inability to easily find solved issues that related to their issue.
In the `Advanced Search` area, there’s no explicit way to search by solved, you need to manually add `status:solved` in the search bar. Which has me wondering if there might be some ways we could better return solved results, perhaps by having;
- a sort by solved option, per the users suggestion
- an explicit `Solved` status in the `Where topics` drop down or in `Only return topics/posts...` as a checkbox
There’s probably other ideas, but I wanted to start a discussion.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/2 "2020-03-03T02:51:07Z")
> [@Mark\_Walkom](#):
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> an explicit `Solved` status in the `Where topics` drop down or in `Only return topics/posts...` as a checkbox
I like the idea of the “Where topics” having an option for “are solved”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/3 "2020-03-03T04:10:06Z")
We have `in: solved`
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=in%3Asolved%20button](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=in%3Asolved%20button)
We certainly should have the solved plugin inject into here and add a “are solved” option.
@vinothkannans can you make this happen?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/5 "2020-03-03T04:13:42Z")
Given that the search query is `in` not `status`, shouldn’t this go in the “Only return topics/posts…” drop down, not the “where topics”? That’s where all the other `in` queries are.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/6 "2020-03-03T04:18:50Z")
I think we messed up here a bit in the terminology of the search operator.
We should
1. Rename it so it is `status:solved` not `in:solved`
2. Then amend the UX to match.
“solved” is far more akin “archived” “closed” and so on as status. `in:solved` feels like it is in stuff that I solved, which is not our intent at all.
So, very very slight scope creep here. Rename `in:solved` to `status:solved`
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### Author:  [@Domas\_Sabockis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Domas_Sabockis)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/7 "2020-03-03T13:25:32Z")
This is great addition. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/8 "2020-03-06T03:34:07Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved/commit/f4aea44db8e1a0af3140a7391c0c65cca49a7e8f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved/commit/f4aea44db8e1a0af3140a7391c0c65cca49a7e8f)
It’s done as per the above commit.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Walkom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Walkom)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/9 "2020-03-08T22:00:21Z")
Awesome, thank’s y’all 😃
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-searching-by-solved-status/143146/10 "2020-03-10T08:18:03Z")