# Moving Selected Posts To Existing Topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 14, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201 "2017-07-14T12:43:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RobMeade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmeade/32/109119_2.png) [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201/1 "2017-07-14T12:43:47Z")

</div>

Hi all,

I think I may have found a bug but happy to be told it is by design if that is the case 🙂

- I needed to split a topic into two as the content had wandered from the original subject.
- I created a new topic and set it as unlisted.
- I then selected the posts from the original topic I wanted to move to an “existing topic”, but when I typed in the title, no results were found.
- I spotted the mention of entering an ID, so I entered that and sure enough the topic was found and I could move the posts.

This leads me to believe that the search for existing topics filters out those that are unlisted, where-as by ID does not. As I said this may be by design, but I can’t think of why - in this context - it would be?

Hope this is of some use 🙂

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-selected-posts-to-existing-topic/66201)._