# Search/Read Private not working for a Persona-driven RAG search on forums?

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**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [November 27, 2025, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-read-private-not-working-for-a-persona-driven-rag-search-on-forums/389792 "2025-11-27T08:13:43Z")
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### Author: ![Neil\_Evans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil_evans/32/511055_2.png) [@Neil\_Evans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neil_Evans)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2025, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-read-private-not-working-for-a-persona-driven-rag-search-on-forums/389792/1 "2025-11-27T08:13:43Z")

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I have been trying to setup a chatbot to answer question on some of our private forums, but it only seems to find results from the forum topics if I make the forums public. I have tried setting “Read Private” and “Search Private” in the Persona - and have the persona “allowed groups” set to the same groups as the category security. Can you think of anything else I should try?

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