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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/86ddf2d2-30c1-4a93-aa1c-38101ac4b3b6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.