Edit to my previous post: moving is possible! Am Donnerstag, 7. März 2019 18:00:43 UTC+1 schrieb Stéph: > > 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 >> >
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