Ivan_Rapekas uses Discourse as a tracking system where incoming emails create new topics, often with similar subjects. While he appreciates the ability to move topics for organization, he finds it easy to accidentally move posts to already-closed topics — especially since search results during topic moves sometimes show only closed ones. He asks if there’s a setting to hide closed topics from search results during moves, referencing screenshots and related threads here and here. omarfilip suggests unlisting the topic instead, linking to a guide explaining the differences between closed, unlisted, and archived topics. Ivan_Rapekas confirms that unlisting works as a solution — it removes the moved (and now closed) topics from search visibility, solving his issue. He notes that moved topics may remain briefly visible due to a short delay before being fully processed, but unlisting effectively prevents them from appearing in move searches. He thanks omarfilip for the quick and helpful suggestion.
Hi, I am using Discourse as a tracking system. Incoming emails are converted into topics. For some reason the emails always have similar subjects. So they produce a new topic every time, which is fine, but…
I love the feature of moving topics to make the forum pretty. …But the described behavior puts me in a situation where it’s easy to make a mistake. Seems, sometimes all topics in the results are closed (can’t reproduce now).
Is there any setting to not show closed topics in search results when I move a topic? I’d like to be able to hide topics underlined in red from search (or exclude closed topics from search).
Thanks for the fast answer and help! In my case the most of closed topics in popup window are topics that just have been moved. I would like they’ve deleted at once, but there is some minimal delay - same day, perhaps, or a couple of minutes.. don’t know. Anyway, I will try to unlist them first.
UPD: Yep, unlisting topic is a solution , you saved my day.
(can’t reproduce now).