+Geocaching HQ Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Release Notes (Website: Search Filters) - October 23, 2019 With today’s release, we are enabling three filter options for Basic members on the Logged in Home Page Search Filters and the New Search Map Filters. Previously, these filters were only available to Premium members on these pages. Basic members can now filter by: Caches they have found Caches they own Caches hidden by another player For Premium members, all of the same filtering options are available. To highlight which filters are available to Basic members, we have updated the order of the filters. With the addition of radio buttons for some filters, you can now also select “All” in addition to just toggling on or off the filter. Updated filter panel for Basic members: Updated filter panel for Premium members: This change was made to allow Basic members the ability to filter on criteria that were inconsistently available to them on other parts of the website. Erin (Oceansazul) is watching this thread to answer questions whenever possible. Any posts in this thread should relate to features in this release. Comments unrelated to the release may be removed. Please direct unrelated comments to other appropriate threads. Thanks! 1 Link to comment
+terratin Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Nice one! This is a very useful filter, so much so that it should have been available to basic members before. Thanks. Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 21 hours ago, Geocaching HQ said: To highlight which filters are available to Basic members, we have updated the order of the filters. It isn't just the order that has been updated; the entire layout has been changed significantly. With the new portrait-like layout, the filter window no longer displays fully on a 24" monitor. Even if I hide my menu bar and bookmarks toolbar in Firefox, I still can't see the whole thing and have to scroll to see the Size filters and "Update Search" button. Please change this back to a landscape layout and/or reduce whitespace so all options can be seen without needing to scroll. 2 3 Link to comment
+ratjam Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Prior to the map changes, we were also able to filter out caches with "personal cache notes". Please reinstate this feature. I use this filter in combination with filtering our caches with corrected coordinates to generate a list of caches that I may need to solve. I use the "personal cache notes" as a way to mark a mystery cache as a "field" solve. Thank you 1 1 Link to comment
+niraD Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 7 hours ago, ratjam said: Prior to the map changes, we were also able to filter out caches with "personal cache notes". Please reinstate this feature. I use this filter in combination with filtering our caches with corrected coordinates to generate a list of caches that I may need to solve. I use the "personal cache notes" as a way to mark a mystery cache as a "field" solve. I use Personal Cache Notes on puzzle caches to keep track of which ones I've started to work on. Puzzles I've solved (or challenges I've qualified for) have corrected coordinates. Puzzles I've started working on have no corrected coordinates, but do have Personal Cache Notes. Puzzles I haven't started working on have no corrected coordinates or Personal Cache Notes. It would be nice if I could search/filter for all these permutations (and maybe more). 2 Link to comment
+capoaira Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 (edited) The German translation is not working... / Die deutsche Übersetztung fuktoniert nicht richtig. PS.: I would like a filter to filter by favorite percent. / Ich würde mich über einen Filter freuen, der nach Favoriten Prozent filtert. Edited October 26, 2019 by capoaira My english it not very good. 2 Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, capoaira said: filter by favorite percent I would even take the time to figure out new-search if it had this! 1 Link to comment
+monsterbox Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 Found 3 inconsistencies between the 2 search pages: 1. "Limit search to..." only available from the homepage 2. "Search the world" and " Only show caches that are part of a GeoTour " only available from the search map By intention or just still missing in the other search each? Link to comment
+monsterbox Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, HHL said: Just hit the magnifying glass without any search keyword. Hans Hmm, don't understand what you're talking about? "Search the world" is an option in the filters of the serach map. And there's a magnifying glass, too. It's not available in the search from the main page. But there also is no magnifying glass I could click. So what are you suggesting then? Link to comment
+monsterbox Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, HHL said: This: Hans Funny... Don't have it that way P.S.: Ah, ok... NOW I've got the magnifying glass... That page changed as I was using filters and after first usage it looks "my" way. Needed to reload the page first... BUT: This still is a completely different search functionality as that extra option allows search for specific filters worldwide! Edited November 4, 2019 by monsterbox Link to comment
+barefootjeff Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 29 minutes ago, monsterbox said: Hmm, don't understand what you're talking about? "Search the world" is an option in the filters of the serach map. And there's a magnifying glass, too. It's not available in the search from the main page. But there also is no magnifying glass I could click. So what are you suggesting then? On the initial Search page, just click on either the magnifying glass or the Filters button (if you want to set up filters before doing any search) without entering anything into the City, state, coordinates, GC code... field and that will search the world: 1 Link to comment
+monsterbox Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, barefootjeff said: On the initial Search page, just click on either the magnifying glass or the Filters button (if you want to set up filters before doing any search) without entering anything into the City, state, coordinates, GC code... field and that will search the world: Yep, finally found it as stated in my last post. Played a bit with that now and figured out how to use it the way I was thinking about. Filters to work worldwide as long as I don't enter anything in the search page. Never tried that before as I had no need for it Now I know that I still need to find another 8567 virtuals So thanks for putting me the right direction! Thanks to HHL, too! Edited November 4, 2019 by monsterbox Link to comment
+OusKonNé & Cétyla Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Thanks for the new search filters, we appreciate! Missing filters : Personal Cache Notes filter (as mentioned by ratjam and niraD) Placed Date filter (From - To) (would be usefull for Jasmer Challenges and other older caches searches) Thank you for considering the needs of your users! Link to comment
+Twentse Mug Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 https://www.geocaching.com/my/geocaches.aspx When I go to the menu on the right hand side there is a calendar. When I click on a date on the calendar it does not show the logs of that date but instead I get a page with error 500. It used to work but it has stopped working. 1 Link to comment
+OusKonNé & Cétyla Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 (edited) The current Search by Difficulty/Terrain is very pretty but does not allow full flexibility according to geocachers real needs. Current Search by Difficulty/Terrain Proposed Search by Difficulty/Terrain With such a grid, we could search exactly what we want by clicking the appropriate cells (example : for Fizzy Challenges, etc.). In the example above, I want to find the following four combinations: - Difficulty 2 / Terrain 5 - Difficulty 4.5 / Terrain 2 - Difficulty 4.5 / Terrain 4.5 - Difficulty 5 / Terrain 3 Here, a "Desetect all" button would be appropriate too. Thank you Groundspeak for eventually considering this! Edited November 30, 2019 by OusKonNé & Cétyla 1 Link to comment
+niraD Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 8 minutes ago, OusKonNé & Cétyla said: The current Search by Difficulty/Terrain is very pretty but does not allow full flexibility according to geocachers real needs. I would argue that what you're describing doesn't meet geocachers' needs. Rather, it meets D/T Grid Cachers' needs. For geocaching, the current system works just fine for identifying caches that are likely within one's current difficulty/terrain limitations. For D/T Grid Caching, one needs specific D/T combinations, which is what you're looking for help with. 2 1 Link to comment
+IceColdUK Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 14 hours ago, OusKonNé & Cétyla said: The current Search by Difficulty/Terrain is very pretty but does not allow full flexibility according to geocachers real needs. Fyi, Project-GC does include functionality to pick out caches with D/T combinations missing from your grid: https://project-gc.com/Maps/MapMatrix Link to comment
+colleda Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 So far all responses have been from Premium Members. Any Basic members care to comment? Link to comment
+monsterbox Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 On 12/8/2019 at 1:00 AM, colleda said: So far all responses have been from Premium Members. Any Basic members care to comment? Be happy that there are some responses at all Considering it's millions of accounts it's anyways just a really low number of people posting here. Many might just not even know that the forum does exist while others don't care and the next ones might not be able to understand/write English good enough to take part... Link to comment
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