# Problème avec la recherche avancée lors du filtrage sur mes messages
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Décembre 12, 2018, 5:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124 "2018-12-12T17:09:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@AndreaPi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreaPi)
#### Post date: [Décembre 12, 2018, 5:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/1 "2018-12-12T17:09:55Z")
Hi,
when searching for posts by a certain user, in topics to which I have posted, the advanced search returns 0 hits, even though this user has posted answers in many of my topics. This is happening on the RStudio community, which uses Discourse:
> **[Search results for '@mara in:posted' - Posit Community](https://forum.posit.co/search?expanded=true&q=%40mara%20%20in%3Aposted)**
>
> A community for all things Posit
This advanced search feature was introduced last year:
> [@Advanced search: posts that I have seen](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-search-posts-that-i-have-seen/57966):
>
> How about adding the possibility in advanced search to limit the search to “posts/topics that I have seen”? Need I explain? I guess we have all been there: “Where is that post about X that I saw the other day?”…
I would have posted in that topic, but I can’t because it’s now closed, so I’m opening a new one. Thanks for your attention and for this wonderful platform,
Andrea
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Décembre 13, 2018, 12:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/2 "2018-12-13T00:13:00Z")
Can you repro this @jomaxro?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [Décembre 13, 2018, 3:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/3 "2018-12-13T03:29:02Z")
Yep, this isn’t working (or the `in:posted` filter doesn’t do what we think it does). @codinghorror and I have posted in many of the same topics, yet [Search results for '@codinghorror in:posted' - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true&q=%40codinghorror%20in%3Aposted) returns 0 results.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [Décembre 14, 2018, 9:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/4 "2018-12-14T21:45:12Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> (or the `in:posted` filter doesn’t do what we think it does).
That filter is used to search _in_ your posts
>
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Décembre 14, 2018, 10:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/5 "2018-12-14T22:51:02Z")
So that is the confusion. This is being interpreted as “search all topics I posted in” when in reality it means “search all my posts”.
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### Author:  [@AndreaPi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreaPi)
#### Post date: [Décembre 15, 2018, 9:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/6 "2018-12-15T09:17:39Z")
Ok. So which advanced search would allow me to all posts by User X, in topics in which I posted? Or, if this isn’t possible, all my posts, in topics opened by User X? Thanks
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Décembre 15, 2018, 10:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-advanced-search-when-scoping-to-messages-i-posted/104124/7 "2018-12-15T10:44:20Z")
You might need to use the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin for that. It’s kind of an unusual query.