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Is there a way to let Project-GC show me whether I have fulfilled the D / T 81 matrix only with caches from certain countries? Such as only caches from Poland, Croatia or the USA.
in Feature requests by Virtualboy (430 points)
Yes, I agree and just removed my answer since it doesn't actually resolve the issue.  After looking at the results for that user I came to the conclusion that it is an aggregate value for each matrix slot meaning it combines all finds for all 3 countries to give a total.  Using the link provided below the D/T matrix grid, I ran their screen name for each separate country and it does only show the caches needed in that country but doesn't show a way to separate out the matrices.

To my knowledge, I don't know of a way to get a separate matrix showing only US or Croatia, or Poland.  LOL, I was a bit too quick with the Return button to provide an answer and didn't research it more thoroughly.  We all make mistakes.
Are you sure this gives the correct result? I assume by using this filter the map suggests caches only from the US to fill the remaining gaps, but I doubt that it only takes into consideration caches from the US when calculating the filling of the matrix in the past.
Actually, I am sure that this is the case as having run the tool with Belgium as a filter country I get exactly the same filling of the matrix only that now for the remaining gaps caches in Belgium are suggested.
This is, therefore, not the solution the TO is looking for.
I only mentioned the countries as examples. I'm looking for some sort of filter option to set a country and then look at the D / T 81 matrix found there.
I understand what you are looking for and gave it an upvote but I am not aware of any filters that will provide this feature.  I am not sure if the custom filters will do it either.  The only other possibility is to use GSAK but don't ask me to help you there since I have no clue how to use that service.
If you only want to know if you have fulfilled it and don't actually want to find caches for the missing combinations, then perhaps this can be done with a Challenge Check script.
Unfortunately, I don't have experience with writing challenge checker scripts myself, so I don't know for sure that it can be done. It's only a suggestion and maybe more experienced users can comment.
Yes, this is certainly a possibility, e.g. this one: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5ECJT/380 seems to check it for Sweden. (Unfortunately, it does not show the result as a handy table as most D/T-matrix checker do, but it confirms that in principle it is possible to tag a matrix challenge checker to do what the TO wants to achieve.)
I would like there to be a function that allows me to choose how I have fulfilled the matrix in different countries.
Hopefully more up votes will come along giving this request increased urgency to add it to the To Do list.
Good idea. would be a nice tool.
I don't see a tool or statistic to show DT for any arbitrary country, but I do know it's very easy to do this in a challenge checker.
Recently I was looking for how many D/T caches I found in a certain state. This would be a great feature and I gave it an uptick.  As a workaround, however what I ultimately ended up doing was downloading the MyFindsPocketQuery from geocaching.com and imported into an MSExcel file.  I then did the appropriate filtering to see if I was missing anything from that region. Just an alternative method.
Best would be to simply have the standard country-state-county filter added to the D/T tool.
Unfortunately the suggestion does not work. Because even if I insert a country, the entries of all the countries I visited before are still included.

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There is no native tool for this, but you can get the answer you want from this not-a-checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80062
by pinkunicorn (Moderator) (194k points)
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