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NorfairKing
Add a meta tag for non-obsolete entries
Frequently when using smos-query I want to filter for all entries that are "available", which simply means anything that is not CANCELLED, DONE, or FAILED. This suggestion is to add a "meta-tag" in that the state itself will not exist but be a pre-defined filter to show only those that are available.
You can do this using the not:state:(CANCELLED or (DONE or FAILED)). Does this filter solve your problem?
That is what I am currently doing, however, it is cumbersome to type out every time. I was basically hoping for an alias for that.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Tom Sydney Kerckhove wrote:
You can do this using the
not:state:(CANCELLED or (DONE or FAILED)). Does this filter solve your problem?
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@distefam You can use prepared reports https://docs.smos.online/smos-query/report to define your own alias. (or just shell aliases of course)
Not really in that it does not solve the problem for writing ad-hoc queries from the command-line. For example, I might have entries with a tag of wife that have one of the following states that are all "in play": waiting, todo, next, ready. When I'm talking with my wife I don't necessarily only want to do next items as I can usually knock out a few todo items while addressing some I might be waiting for also. So, I could write this like smos-query entry tag:wife not:state:(FAILED or DONE or CANCELLED) but this would be much nicer to write like smos-query entry tag:wife state:ACTIVE