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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýIs there any way to search the messages for a specific date? I need to be able to locate messages that I sent on particular days so I can get some links from the messages. I have the dates but can¡¯t work out how to get to them. Win |
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:37 AM, WBennett wrote:
Is there any way to search the messages for a specific date?Yes. Click the Search button at top. Once the dialog box comes up, click the blue Search button in the dialog box (without entering any search string). As might be expected, this search will return every message in the group.? Now click on the Tools button. Pull down the blue Any Time menu and select Custom Range. Enter your date window and click on Go. Whoa. That didn't work after all. The other time intervals seem to work but Custom Range always returns nothing. Is anyone else seeing different behavior? Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
Win,
Yes. Click on the filter icon (funnel shape) to the right of the search button. Then click the Any Time button and select Custom Range... Dang. I see the bugs are back. If in your Account Preferences you've selected a Date Display other than MM/DD/YYYY then the entry of a custom date range will be ... finicky. I haven't exactly worked out what the deal is, whether it matters if you edit the text or use the calendar drop-down, for example, but I often as not get no results when I have my preferred Date Display of YYYY-MM-DD. I reported this to support
once
long ago, and I thought it got fixed. Maybe I didn't test well enough, or maybe it has reverted. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
On 4/08/2019 04:23, Shal Farley wrote:
Win,Hi Shal. Please bear in mind that a large portion of the world - perhaps even the majority - writes the date the other way around: ie DD-MM-YYYY - you may care to investigate this before making any upgrades.. Or this may just confound computers - I don't know. -- Cheers. -------- Doug Harris Cambridge, New Zealand [The question is: Are we going to be in time, and are we going to do enough? And the answer to both of those is no. David Attenborough.] |
Doug,
Please bear in mind that a large portion of the world - perhaps evenSorry, but YYYY-MM-DD is an international standard, ISO 8601. It is also the logical order, in that it sorts correctly in a plain text sort. That much of the world does something else is a historical fact, but new designs should allow, if not encourage, using the ISO standard format. And Groups.io does allow it (and I choose to use it). you may care to investigate this before making any upgrades..If you mean upgrades to Groups.io, I don't work there. So far as is known, no Groups.io employees are members of GMF. Have a look at the Date Display choices available on the Preferences page of your Account: you can choose DD.MM.YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD or MM/DD/YYYY. Use anything other than MM/DD/YYYY at the risk of finding bugs, apparently. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Thanks Shal, This works for what I want to do.. my format is the Aussie way ... day, month, year... but I just used the calendar and found the date range and it worked fine. I have a Photoshop group, and have made folders on my hard drive with just the date of a project, but nothing showing the URL of the project, nor the name... now I¡¯ll be able to update everything. My back up program will throw? a fit because of all the alterations, but eventually I'll get organised. Thanks for the help. Win ? On 4/08/2019 04:23, Shal Farley wrote:
> Win, > Dang. I see the bugs are back. > If in your Account Preferences you've selected a /Date Display/ other > than MM/DD/YYYY then the entry of a custom date range will be ... > finicky. I haven't exactly worked out what the deal is, whether it > matters if you edit the text or use the calendar drop-down, for > example, but I often as not get no results when I have my preferred > Date Display of YYYY-MM-DD. > I reported this to support once long ago, and I thought it got fixed. > Maybe I didn't test well enough, or maybe it has reverted. > Shal
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DAMN... spoke too soon... I wanted to look in Feb 2018 and got July 2018... Win ? On 4/08/2019 04:23, Shal Farley wrote:
> Win, > Dang. I see the bugs are back. > If in your Account Preferences you've selected a /Date Display/ other > than MM/DD/YYYY then the entry of a custom date range will be ... > finicky. I haven't exactly worked out what the deal is, whether it > matters if you edit the text or use the calendar drop-down, for > example, but I often as not get no results when I have my preferred > Date Display of YYYY-MM-DD. > I reported this to support once long ago, and I thought it got fixed. > Maybe I didn't test well enough, or maybe it has reverted. > Shal
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Definitely a bug¡ this time I input the date range using the default format and got absolutely nothing, no results at all. Could you please report this? Thanks Win ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of WBennett
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2019 2:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] searching messages ? Thanks Shal, This works for what I want to do.. my format is the Aussie way ... day, month, year... but I just used the calendar and found the date range and it worked fine. I have a Photoshop group, and have made folders on my hard drive with just the date of a project, but nothing showing the URL of the project, nor the name... now I¡¯ll be able to update everything. My back up program will throw? a fit because of all the alterations, but eventually I'll get organised. Thanks for the help. Win
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Win,
Could you please report this?Bruce did, but I'd encourage you to report the details of your own experience to [email protected] so that Mark doesn't think it only affects members using the YYYY-MM-DD format. It's probably worth reporting your Browser and OS as well, just in case those are somehow a factor. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýJust letting you know that Mark emailed me saying the problem has been fixed... just tested and all is OK. Win ? -----Original Message----- ? Win, ? > Could you please report this? ? Bruce did, but I'd encourage you to report the details of your own experience to [email protected] so that Mark doesn't think it only affects members using the YYYY-MM-DD format. ? It's probably worth reporting your Browser and OS as well, just in case those are somehow a factor. ? Shal ? ? -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list ? ? |