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.

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.