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To use the advanced search, combine phrases and labels as described in the search tips below.

Advanced search tips

Enter words that you want to find separated by spaces, e.g. climbing lane
Use OR (in capital letters) where you don't mind which word, e.g. commons OR lords
Use quotes when you want to find an exact phrase, e.g. "Liverpool City Council"
status: to select based on the status or historical status of the request, see the table of statuses below.
variety: to select type of thing to search for, see the table of varieties below.
requested_from:home_office to search requests from the Home Office, typing the name as in the URL.
requested_by:julian_todd to search requests made by Julian Todd, typing the name as in the URL.
commented_by:tony_bowden to search annotations made by Tony Bowden, typing the name as in the URL.
request: to restrict to a specific request, typing the title as in the URL.
filetype:pdf to find all responses with PDF attachments. Or try these: csv txt pdf rtf doc docx xls xlsx ppt pptx oft msg tnef tif gif jpg png bmp html vcf zip delivery-status
Type 01/01/2008..14/01/2008 to only show things that happened in the first two weeks of January.
tag:charity to find all public authorities or requests with a given tag. You can include multiple tags, and tag values, e.g. tag:openlylocal AND tag:financial_transaction:335633. Note that by default any of the tags can be present, you have to put AND explicitly if you only want results them all present.
request_public_body_tag:charity to find requests to public authorities with a given tag.
Read about advanced search operators, such as proximity and wildcards.

Table of statuses

All the options below can use status or latest_status before the colon. For example, status:not_held will match requests which have ever been marked as not held; latest_status:not_held will match only requests that are currently marked as not held.

status:waiting_response	Waiting for the public authority to reply
status:not_held	The public authority does not have the information requested
status:rejected	The request was refused by the public authority
status:partially_successful	Some of the information requested has been received
status:successful	All of the information requested has been received
status:waiting_clarification	The public authority would like part of the request explained
status:gone_postal	The public authority would like to / has responded by postal mail
status:internal_review	Waiting for the public authority to complete an internal review of their handling of the request
status:error_message	Received an error message, such as delivery failure.
status:requires_admin	A strange response, required attention by the dumeditë team
status:user_withdrawn	The requester has abandoned this request for some reason

Table of varieties

All the options below can use variety or latest_variety before the colon. For example, variety:sent will match requests which have ever been sent; latest_variety:sent will match only requests that are currently marked as sent.

variety:sent	Original request sent
variety:followup_sent	Follow up message sent by requester
variety:response	Response from a public authority
variety:comment	Annotation added to request
variety:authority	A public authority
variety:user	A dumeditë user