Re: Nested boolean searches?

Diane Ross wrote:
> "Michael Grant" wrote:
> 
>> I suppose I can first save my OR search, then use that saved search as
one
>> of the criteria for my AND search. Not too elegant but it should work.
Now
>> if I could organize saved searches in folders....
> 
> Good suggestion on the folders for saved searches. Send feedback on
this.
> 
> Same goes for Categories. What I do when naming categories is use a
naming
> method like this:
> 
> Personal
> Personal: Family
> Personal: Phone
> Personal: Medical
> 
> Not very elegant, but it works.

Not sure if this would be of any use to you but Entourage 2008 allows 
you to used Saved Searches *within* other Saved Searches. You can get 
pretty complex results from this.

The ultimate geek way of accompli****ng your search, however, would be to 
use the Raw Query function. This is a feature of Spotlight and is 
accessible in Entourage at the bottom of the criteria drop down menu.

An example of the Raw Query you'd like to run would look like (this 
should be all on one line but I'm breaking it into two to be easier to 
read):

	(com_microsoft_entourage_categories == "A" || "B") &&
	(kMDItemDueDate ==  $time.today)

"==" mean "equal"
"||" means "or"
"&&" means "and"

Andy Ruff, a product manager for Entourage, wrote this article for 
Spotlight sup****t in Entourage 2004 
<http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.05/Entourage2004SpotlightSup****t/index.html>.

Hope this helps!

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>