I thought I'd put on a belated post here for anyone like myself who was grappling with the logic of advanced filters. I finally think I understand them, and how the logic works. The OP mentions they understand the boolean logic here, but i'll reiterate the golden rule that cleared it all up for me:
*The operators (NOT/AND/OR etc) relate to SIBLING items, not CHILD items.* I was working previously on what seemed intuitive - that logic was on child items. So whereas if you want conditions A or B or C and X or Y or Z I *thought *you'd do: >AND >OR A B C >OR X Y Z MLO acts maddeningly when you try to achieve this and it all seems like black magic with operators popping up seemingly randomly. However, once you understand that LOGIC OPERATORS APPLY TO SIBLINGS then you see you'd achieve it by doing: >AND A OR B OR C > X OR Y OR Z So you can see that line 1 (which uses AND) has a sibling on line 5 and this is the line under which the logic operates. Therefore results of both of those rules (or their sub-rules) will be positive. Hope this helps someone! On Thursday, 4 June 2015 10:59:58 UTC+1, Jennifer Lefeaux wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm experimenting with MLO. So far I really like it because it seems to > offer a lot of DIY customization, which is a good fit for me. > > My question is, what are the semantics for writing an Advanced Filter > rule? I get the Boolean principles but am not sure about the details. > > I looked for this in the User Manual and in this group but haven't been > able to find a general "how-to" kind of guide. If someone can help me out > I'll be forever grateful :). > > Basically all I want to do is exclude one single context (Waiting For) > from my active list. If there's an easier way to do that, I'd love to know > it, but I'll still be curious about the general query language. > > Thanks in advance! > Jennifer > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/266bff42-8bf1-4f00-b4ca-54f8a15d8196%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
