Tag Filter Expressions

[geelpete]

I apologize if this has been discussed to death. I definitely put in a full 8 seconds of skimming the forums before posting.

Is it possible to do more advanced tag filtering than "show me everything with this tag"?

For example: I'm putting together all my 13th Age material. Magic items are assigned tiers (Adventurer, Champion, Epic, and Iconic). My magic item write-ups therefore have tags for each of those: almost any magic item that's Adventurer tier is also Champion and Epic tier, so I have them tagged as such.

Is there a way to search for all the magic items which have the Epic tier tag but also don't have the Adventurer or Champion tier tags?

[kbs666]

Sure. NOT and AND are available.

So for the case you describe filter for:
Epic NOT Adventurer NOT Champion

(tbh I've never tried a joint statement like that but it should work. Single NOT's and single AND's do.)

[geelpete]

Thank you!

But I guess I'm not really sure how to pull this off.

Doing the search in the following way didn't work, 'cause I think it was looking for text, not tags (I assume they don't count as text).

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F92PMpAAesflrKlnRj1u42uhp-wggB2D

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F92PMpAAesflrKlnRj1u42uhp-wggB2D

This filter basically worked, but it also gave me a whole lot of irrelevant results.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-eo8572Smh6As_To93bUCnRmNR93A5c4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-eo8572Smh6As_To93bUCnRmNR93A5c4/view?usp=sharing

The problem with the second filter being that it gave me everything that didn't specifically have those tags. If I browsed just items, that was great. However, scrolling around revealed it returned a lot of monsters, game rules, classes, etc.

Am I missing a more complex way to apply these filters?

I hope these images show. I threw links in in case they don't.

[kbs666]

You needed to filter for Epic as well as NOT Adventurer, Champion.

You can choose Any, Not, All for every tag you add to the search

[geelpete]

That's where I'm falling down. When i change the boolean, it applies to all of the tags. I don't see a way to apply it to a single tag.

[kbs666]

Maybe this will help.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp7i5j38lg5p6vz/Screenshot%202018-08-05%2010.54.47.png?dl=0

[Parody]

The problem is that you can't mix modifiers within a single Tag Domain, which is what geelpete wants to do. (In your example: "Adult" and "NOT Elder", both in the Age Domain.)

[geelpete]

Ah--that would be the problem. Thank you: kbs666 for attempting to help; Parody for identifying the problem.

I guess I have a sort of workaround that works for this specific case: since I only have three tags within the domain, saying NOT for two of them and then just visually weeding through the appropriate articles works.

Can you suggest another workaround, though?

Thanks!

[kbs666]

Not that it will do any good but that should be submitted as a bug or a feature request.