Hello André. It's me - thanks for the name-check! You've spotted the oddity with adding a set of subrules. When you click "Add subrule", it effectively changes your current rule into the open-bracket to group your subrules, wiping out any parameters you'd started entering into that rule. The thing to do is always click "Add rule" just before you click "Add sub-rule".
So, if you want to add your rules in the order you first wrote them in your post, start by clicking "Add rule" (which is going to be your opening bracket), then click "Add sub-rule" (to start entering the first of the three rules inside your brackets). When you've entered the three sub-rules (by clicking "Add-rule" each time for the second and third sub-rules, you'll want to add your final top-level rule (the one outside the brackets). If you just click "Add rule" where you are, it will add it as a fourth sub-rule, within the brackets. To get back to the top level in the tree (same as if you're adding tasks and sub-tasks in the MLO outline), you need to click on the AND at the top of the list (the open bracket, which is the only item at the top level in the hierarchy) and select "Add rule". That's a bit hard to read, so I'll try and explain it more graphically: 1) AND [add this grouping for the next three subrules by clicking "Add rule", but don't bother putting any criteria into the rule. We just want the "AND"] 1.1) dueDate <= today OR [Line 1.1 appears when you're on line 1 and click "Add subrule"] 1.2) startDate <= today OR [Line 1.2 is created by clicking "Add rule" when you've finished editing the criteria for 1.1] 1.3) starred = true OR [Line 1.3 is created by clicking "Add rule" when you've finished editing the criteria for 1.2] 2) hasNextReview = false AND [To create a rule which is not another subrule of line 1, you have to *go back to selecting line 1 *and click "Add rule"] I hope that helps. Stéphane On Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:23:47 UTC, André Bonhôte wrote: > > Hi all > > I still don't get how the "Setup Advanced filtering" dialog is supposed to > work (Windows). Let's say, I want to create a rule like this (SQLish > notation): > > > ( dueDate <= today OR startDate <= today OR starred = true ) AND > hasNextReview = false > > > > I learned that the booleans work with siblings, not with childs (as I > initially thought), that means I would have something like this > > > AND > dueDate <= today OR > startDate <= today OR > starred = true OR > hasNextReview = false AND > > > > Now, assuming this is correct - how do I easily add this to the advanced > filter dialog? > > First attempt: "Add sub-rule" > > Nothing happens at all. > > > Second attempt: "Add rule" (let's start from the bottom): > > [X] NextReviev - does not exist - AND > > > > Fine, now the next block is not a rule, it's rather a set of sub rules. > When I click "Add sub-rule", it will behave weirdly: > > [X] > > [X] .... (empty) > > > > Where has my "NextReview" line gone? I can try to revert and delete the > empty sub-rule, but that doesn't work. All I can do is delete all rules and > start from scratch. Pretty cumbersome. > > I solved this by exporting the rules, sending them to my android device, > editing there (it's better but still bad), sending it back to my windows > device, noticing that the rule doesn't work. In the end I opened the XML > and modified it by hand. > > Cumbersome, IMHO. > > In another post > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/iIqFqs4Kl1Y/oTOivaMYAQAJ> > I saw Stéph write something that looks very similar to my pseudo code > snippets. > > Are there activities ongoing to improve this? Some kind of pseudo code > like remember the milk offers > <https://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answer/basics-search-advanced>would > be awesome. I must admit that this is the only part of MLO I really hate. > It could be so powerful and is such a nightmare to use. It's really > frustrating. > > Cheers > > André > > PS: On my 4K screen I can only guess what the filters mean > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/01a2a107-36a5-4ace-b654-194069d6e4cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
