It would be nice to be able to query only for active pastes in the pastes dashboard panel:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/seb2l2u5teg5h48/Screenshot%202015-08-05%2020.43.18.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9kytt9jlqpi82dd/Screenshot%202015-08-05%2020.43.28.png?dl=0
there is no option to limit it to only active pastes.

That is the point of this task.

@chad: sure. I was just pointing out the dashboard part specifically. There are other places where it makes sense to query for pastes too :-)

if this is all generic, then ignore my comment

Ah, yes Dashboards are just ApplicationSearch queries arranged in different ways.

@chad it isn't possible to search for 'my active authored pastes' which is what we'd like to show in the dashboard. Is this intentional?

It works for me:

I meant, in the dashboard view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ud2vy3nfvjd20n4/Screenshot%202015-08-08%2013.24.58.png?dl=0

Authored just means Authored. It's not Authored, Active.

If you want to use a Saved Query, Dashboards should pick that up fine.

Ah, that's how to do it. Create a saved query and then have the dashboard pick it up. Thanks for the info. I was unaware of how dashboards interacted with the rest of the searching infrastructure.