Re: [Gramps-users] Filter help

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Mark Curry <mc...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> When I do this gramps attempts to match to a surname but does not seem to
> search on the 'birth' field. In the People View I work with the toolbar
> turned on, so I just type "between" (no quotes) - just goes to nearest
> surname. Have I misunderstood?
>
>
Oh, I forgot to mention one step: you have to select "Date contains:" from
the list above the view in the toolbar. Does that help?

-Doug



> regards
>
> 2009/12/31 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Mark Curry <mc...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Could someone tell me how to do this:
>>>
>>> I want to find all people in the database where they have a birth event
>>> "between date1 and date2" that is to say in the birth event field it would
>>> be sufficient to match just the string 'between' the actual dates are not
>>> important.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> For most cases, searches on dates don't look at a date as text, but look
>> at the date as a point or range in time. However, there is a place that does
>> look at the date as text: in the People View, if you turn on the Toolbar
>> (Menu -> View -> Toolbar) and type in "between" (no quotes) then you'll
>> match all of the dates that have "between" in them. The Filter on the right
>> side does a pure date match (not textual). I think filters also use
>> non-textual searches.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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