How do you search for a colon in a search string?
jelgie says:
I have been using colons next to a person's name when I am tracking follow-up, such as "Cow: Get me milk". How do I search for "Cow:" as opposed to Cow? The former will let me show only follow-ups while the latter gets follow-ups AND my own action items, which I do not want. Am trying to create a SmartList for meetings with my team.
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for your help!
jelgie says:
Anyone out there know?
leah.shalom 
says:
says:I may be misunderstanding your question, but if you search taskincludes: Cow: you should see only the ones with the colon.
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
jelgie,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
name:"Cow:" should work to find the tasks the way you describe.
Hope this helps!
Sorry for the delay in responding.
name:"Cow:" should work to find the tasks the way you describe.
Hope this helps!
jelgie says:
For some reason, that's not working. :(
kanntara says:
Hi Jelgie,
As the search system uses a colon to separate commands, if you want to search for a colon, you have to make sure to surround it with quotation marks.
If you want to create a smartlist for your entire team, you could make a search that looks like this:
name:"Cow:" OR name:"Sheep:"
It's important that the name portion is not capitalized and the colon after cow is inside the quotation marks.
If that doesn't work, if you could copy and paste what you are searching, that could help pinpoint the problem.
As the search system uses a colon to separate commands, if you want to search for a colon, you have to make sure to surround it with quotation marks.
If you want to create a smartlist for your entire team, you could make a search that looks like this:
name:"Cow:" OR name:"Sheep:"
It's important that the name portion is not capitalized and the colon after cow is inside the quotation marks.
If that doesn't work, if you could copy and paste what you are searching, that could help pinpoint the problem.
jelgie says:
Wow. Am ok now. The name not being capitalized was causing my issue. Thank you all!