Hi Mark, and others, I think you will find that the 'And' operator is working properly. The problem is not being able to select a specific event when using 'Event Description' as one of the parameters.
If you select 1. 'Event-Name' 'Equal To' 1911 census 2. AND 'Event-Description'of 'Not Equal To' 'blank' ... it will return the expected results ONLY if there are no other events in that record. In other words, if you have any number of records with more than one event, including '1911 census', the second 'AND' condition looks at all the events in that record, not just the event equal to '1911 census'. There is no way to narrow down the search to find only the '1911 census' with no data (or specific data) in the Event Description field. Note, too, that the 'Event Description' is different from 'Notes' contained in the Event. Hope I was able to explain it properly. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pereira [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] doing an event search Wow! That suggests the "AND" operators are not working properly. I had not come across this problem, which explains my not understanding. My apologies to all. I guess building more complex searches via tagging is out then! Alan -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 November 2011 12:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] doing an event search On 09/11/2011 11:53, Alan Pereira wrote: > I am struggling to understand the problem. In search you can search > for an individual who has a specific event name which occurred on a > specific date that has a specific description. Not quite! I have individuals who all appeared in the 1911 Census. They all have several Events with the specific name England Census and some of them have Descriptions which include Clerk. If I search for Individual with EventName equals England Census AND EventDate equal 02 April 1911 AND EventDescription contains Clerk I DO NOT get ONLY those people whose 1911 England Census includes Clerk, but I get all those who have England Census Events, one of which is dated 02 April 1911 and any of which might contain Clerk. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
