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Title: MCv11.1: searching by date. how?
Post by: marko on October 31, 2005, 07:05:40 pm

from the 11.1.47 release thread:

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Changed: Removed non-working "Recently Imported" smartlist presets. (all date searches now search actual date instead of elapsed time)

this is going to mean a fair bit of work for a fair few of us that use date related smartlist searches. How do we now search for files that have been imported over the past x number of days/weeks

I had a quick look at the "isrange(...)" expression, tried mimicking the date format as displayed by MC, tried using double slashes, not working. didn't expect it to.
I added a filelist column using formatdate([date imported],elapsed) but cannot search on this.

so, what's the procedure for this now?

Title: Re: MCv11.1: searching by date. how?
Post by: sirshambling on November 01, 2005, 02:06:08 am

Marko,

Thanks for raising this.

I use date related smartlists a lot as well - particularly those in the Auto Smartlists and my own variants.

I know that you - and others - are much better at the search syntax than I am so I'm going to be relying on your work and expertise to sort this out. I'm grateful for your efforts.

Good luck!

John.

Title: Re: MCv11.1: searching by date. how?
Post by: lOth on November 01, 2005, 02:52:03 am

yes, thanks for your efforts Marko.

Not sure if you saw that other thread in which Matt suggests that this kind of search is not possible in 11.1 yet:

Quote from: Matt on October 31, 2005, 01:43:07 pm

Date searches based on "time ago" aren't supported right now with MC 11.1.

How about the last 100 plays instead?: ~sort=[Last Played] ~n=100

Full thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29963.0

Title: Re: MCv11.1: searching by date. how?
Post by: marko on November 01, 2005, 03:51:28 am

no, it's over in the handheld forums, and as my bank balance still hasn't recovered from my recent camera purchase, the zen sleek is still on hold :( , and I don't go in there too often. thanks for the pointer.

I make pretty heavy use of "time ago" searches on a daily basis, so v11.1 is a no-no for me until they return in one form or another. I don't mind if the syntax changes, so long as the functionality is there. I'll keep an eye on the release notes for any updates.

thanks for 'thanks' too btw. :)

Title: Re: MCv11.1: searching by date. how?
Post by: Matt on November 01, 2005, 09:15:49 am

We're not sure how we're going to support this moving forward yet, but we certainly will.

Give us a couple of builds.