Search for all posts by a given user?

Is there a way to find posts written by a particular user? The search function only seems to search post text.

UnderDog

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 :)

glennmagusharvey

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.)

jrapage

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.

luc

It's the same, it's just using the voting plugin, that's available for all to get in the addons section.

judgej

http://vanillaforums.org/profile/discussions/glennmagusharvey

UnderDog

@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?

luc

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

judgej

@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.

luc

Yep, I thought so too, but I've answered from mobile device, and I didn't tried different stuff as I would have otherwise.

glennmagusharvey

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".