# Useful advanced search filters

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/useful-advanced-search-filters/796>\
**Category:** Forum Guide & Feedback\
**Tags:** forum-tips\
**Created:** [September 15, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/useful-advanced-search-filters/796 "2023-09-15T11:20:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/useful-advanced-search-filters/796/1 "2023-09-15T11:20:30Z")

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This post is a wiki, feel free to add some cool searches! As a reminder [you can add links to your sidebar for your frequent usecases](https://youtu.be/pN1E1BTH0XQ?list=PL0FmYCf7ocrbiw9_oGPL3awRZ5jAGDcGm&t=200).

## Unanswered help topics more than 1 day old [@gwmngilfen]

This is useful to me to make sure people don’t feel ignored, while giving space for our volunteers to get there first. Here’s the search: [`#=help status:open status:noreplies before:1`](http://forum.ansible.com/search?expanded=false&q=%23%3Dhelp%20status%3Aopen%20status%3Anoreplies%20before%3A1%20order%3Alatest_topic). Note the “before:1” is undocumented AFAICT, `after` and `before` will use absolute dates if you use the picker, but you _can_ specify a relative amount of days.

## Posts that _might_ be solved and we should ask [@gwmngilfen]

I made this to help me find posts that should be bumped in search of a solution, because we want to encourage that behaviour. Here it is: [`#help status:unsolved status:open before:7`](http://forum.ansible.com/search?expanded=false&q=%23help%20status%3Aunsolved%20status%3Aopen%20before%3A7%20order%3Alatest_topic).

I’m using `before:7` here to allow a week for a user to mark it solved themselves, and we have an auto-close rule in #Get Help for one month, so `status:open` will make sure I’m not seeing unsolved posts from a long time ago. It’s not perfect as `before:7` applies to the topic date, not the most recent post, but it’s not too bad!

There’s a list of search tips [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-tips-and-tricks/273328). Post your cool searches!