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stormswift

stormswift Report 13 Mar 2011 16:18

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to search for all threads started by a particular author.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 Mar 2011 16:21

Click on Advanced Search at the bottom of the column on the left, then fill in the author's name as it appears on their threads, ie. their board name.

Gwyn

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 13 Mar 2011 16:22

Click on "Advanced Search", under "Tools" on the left of the page.

stormswift

stormswift Report 13 Mar 2011 16:24

Tried that it keeps asking for a keyword

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 13 Mar 2011 18:20

The key word is the author's name

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Huia

Huia Report 13 Mar 2011 19:27

I just put AnninGlos in the author's name place and it insisted on a keyword, so I put AnninGlos for the keyword as well and it came up with 'no results'.

I guess you need to be looking for a particular topic, stormswift, otherwise you will just have to trawl through all the pages on General and Chat and any other boards on which the person might have posted.

Or you could send a message to GR asking them.

Huia.

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Huia

Huia Report 13 Mar 2011 19:33

I have just put AnninGlos in the keyword place but didnt put any author's name. It came up with 34 results, only 3 of which were started by AnninGlos, so that might work.

Huia.

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Huia

Huia Report 13 Mar 2011 19:40

I typed stormswift in the keyword place and came up with 2 results. You were the author of both, and I see you have been a member for only a short time, so havent responded on other topics as yet, so it was easy to find your 2, but if the person you want to find has posted on lots of threads started by other author's then it could be a long task to trawl through them.

Huia.

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stormswift

stormswift Report 15 Mar 2011 10:47

Thanks for the replys Ill give it a try, else ask support.

By the way this is the 4th thread I've started so it isnt finding all !!!

stormswift

stormswift Report 15 Mar 2011 11:22

Searching using the an author as a keyword only brings up threads where the author is mentioned in the thread.
ie in 2 of the 4 threads I started someone asked me a question. Its these 2 that you found not threads started by me :(

Only thing for it then is support