+rokclimber Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 hey all... i've tried doing a pocket query several times now just for the caches i've found & own yet the PQ always comes back with no results... i finally just downloaded each one individually (pita) and recently did the same with the 2 newest finds i have... what a time killer! anyone have any ideas on making the PQ work? here are the settings i'm using... show-200 any type any container that i have found and i own within none selected my postal code 76240 radius 500 miles (i've tried 2000 but always reverts to 500) placed during none selected thanks for the help, advice stace Link to comment
+Hemlock Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 Yiou have to do found and own as two separate queries. Unless you found your own caches, there are no caches that you both found AND own. Link to comment
+rokclimber Posted March 18, 2005 Author Share Posted March 18, 2005 well that makes perfect sense... simplest answer huh? thanks! Link to comment
robertlipe Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 Yiou have to do found and own as two separate queries. Unless you found your own caches, there are no caches that you both found AND own. While those of us that deal with boolean expressions and speak regexes in our sleep have no problems with this, this does trip up a lot of users. That query form really could benefit from some simple usability improvements. For example, a few lines of javascript to validate this very case would help some. Clarifying the form would help users from even falling into this trap to start with. Link to comment
+Markwell Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 (edited) There's an FAQ that helps explain this logic - with pictures and everything. Edited March 20, 2005 by Markwell Link to comment
+ibycus Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 For example, a few lines of javascript to validate this very case would help some. Clarifying the form would help users from even falling into this trap to start with. Except there are cases where you CAN find a cache that you own, so saying that that case was a bad query would be bad. Although I guess you *probably* wouldn't want to do a PQ of those caches, but you might... Link to comment
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