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Search for all posts by a given user?

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited March 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Is there a way to find posts written by a particular user? The search function only seems to search post text.
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    UnderDogUnderDog MVP
    If you go to the profile of the user you will see the tabs "Questions" and "Answers"
    Unfortunately you can't see them in 1 list, but 2 lists is almost as good :)

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    glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Starting with which version of Vanilla are there "Questions" and "Answers"? I don't see them on my forum. (Or, it's technically someone else's but he appointed me co-admin.)
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    jrapagejrapage New
    No, the version of Vanilla running here is not the same as the one you can download... This is a major cause of confusion for new adopters!

    I need this feature too - based on the DB schema it should be a cinch. I may have a go at doing it as a plug-in, as that seems to be how any useful functionality is added to Vanilla.
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    lucluc ✭✭
    It's the same, it's just using the voting plugin, that's available for all to get in the addons section.
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    judgejjudgej ✭
    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/discussions/glennmagusharvey
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    UnderDogUnderDog MVP
    @judgej what is your point? It's a nice link, but it only shows the answers that were given, how about the discussions that were started by the user?

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    lucluc ✭✭
    The link given by judgej is the one about the discussions started by the user. The answer/comments is this link: http://vanillaforums.org/profile/comments/25029/glennmagusharvey
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    judgejjudgej ✭
    edited March 2011
    @UnderDog Sorry if the link was not clear, which is probably because the user has only stated one discussion, but it was my answer to the original question: posts by a specific user. This may be a little clearer: http://vanillaforums.org/profile/discussions/UnderDog ;-)

    However, reading again, perhaps the OP wants to search for specific text *within* the posts of a specific user. So far as I know, there is no out-the-box way to do that. However, there was in Vanilla 1 by including something like "User:{username}" in the submitted search text.

    @luc To make that URL a little easier, you can also omit the user ID and just include the username: http://vanillaforums.org/profile/comments/glennmagusharvey I suspect the user ID and username will become more interchangeable over time and the userid can be dropped from all URLs, judging my what I have seen in the code changes. Not quite there yet though.


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    lucluc ✭✭
    Yep, I thought so too, but I've answered from mobile device, and I didn't tried different stuff as I would have otherwise.
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    glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    FYI the version we were using is the one that got us a free forum hosted here back on 8 January 2011. We're switching to a new version anyway, on our own server.

    I don't see "Questions" and "Answers", but I see "Discussions" and "Comments".
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