Without actually trying it, I can see you've got "charterfiled" in the
value of each option. So the filter is seeing
...charterfiled<charterfiled[^185]>...
Try making your options like:
<option value='^185'>1850s</option>
Good luck!
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 12:57:50 PM UTC-7, Damon Pritchett wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a newbie when it comes to filters and such so please bear with me.
>
> I have a TW where the tiddlers are companies and each tiddler has a field
> called "charterfiled" for when the company was chartered. The format of the
> charter field is 1864-08-20. I can count how many companies were chartered
> in the 1860s with the following:
>
> <$count
> filter="[tag[Company]regexp:charterfiled[^186]sortan[charterfiled]]"/>
>
> What I'm trying to do is to use the select widget to pick the decade I'd
> like. I wrote the following:
>
> <$select field='primary'>
> <option value='charterfiled[^185]'>1850s</option>
> <option value='charterfiled[^186]'>1860s</option>
> <option value='charterfiled[^187]'>1870s</option>
> <option value='charterfiled[^188]'>1880s</option>
> </$select>
>
>
> ''year:'' {{!!primary}}<br>
> <$count filter="[tag[Company]regexp:charterfiled<primary>]"/>
>
> The variable "primary" gets set correctly, but the count returns all of
> the tiddlers tagged Company and not just the ones from the 1860s. What am
> I doing wrong? I've tried many different things in the filter and the count
> will return 0 or the total number, but never the correct number.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damon
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