Allow more advanced filtering from the outlook filter pane
From a new user who may not understand everything yet (so please correct me if I'm being dumb)... I would really like to see the filter pane improved to include:
1) Operations other than "AND": Presently the filter pane only allows "AND" type tag serches. I could really use a "NOT" (i.e. items which aren't tagged with any of the selected tags), and potentially also an "OR". The Taglocity filter window includes the "OR" option, but this window is a bit slow to be used all the time, and I haven't yet figured out how to restrict the search to a single folder only. The filter pane in outlook on the other hand is instant.
2) Allow filters to be saved in the filter pane: I understand it is possible to create a saved search based on a filter, but this only works in the default mailbox (I haven't yet figured how to create one in an outlook user folder). It would be nice to setup and save some filters and then use them on any folder I like.
Otherwise, great application, I really like it. I've reduced my folder count from over 100 down to 4 (and one of those is deleted items). Thanks for the hard work.
richard.hopkirk
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Thanks good feedback Richard. Currently we don’t offer those extra option on the Filter area, although that was mainly to conserve screen space. We’ll revisit that decision.
In the interim you can ‘hack’ the filter yourself, although it’s not ideal. In Outlook you can use the ‘View / Current View / Customize Current View…’ option. From there you can edit the ‘Filter’ portion to enter your own query, e.g. “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Keywords” != ‘Support’ would select all message with a NOT on the support tag.
As for the search folders on the non-default store, that’s an Outlook restriction, but we are investigation ways around this.
Thanks for the feedback.
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richard.hopkirk
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Thanks David - the interim Hack is very useful so thanks for suggesting that, I had no idea that SQL filter existed!
Incidentally, having now played around, for others trying the hack I find this works better:
NOT("urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Keywords" = 'Support')This excludes items which have more than one tag if any one of them is "Support".