Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged advanced-search

Problem with advanced search?

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:04:12 +0000

Advanced search seems not to work tonight. I hit "Search" it turns into "Searching" for less than a second before returning to display "Search", but no results are shown. Tried both Chrome and FF and various combinations of search fields, including some that I have used successfully before. Something down?

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Is there a wildcard search feature for usernames?

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:47:55 +0000

For example, I'm wanting to find geocaches owned by CO's with usernames beginning with the number 5.

Multiset search option in Advanced Search

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:47:33 +0000

There is a multiset search option for the preset searches (ie Hidden Date) but not on the Advanced Search. For example, is there a way to search for all the caches that begin with the letter X in 5 states at once or do I have to do each one individually?

Advanced Search results not as expected

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:18:28 +0000

So I do Advanced Search on, say, cache owner names that begin with 0 (zero) in my home state. As it turns out there are none, so I would expect "no result." Instead I get EVERY CACHE IN THE STATE in the results list. Is this normal behavior?

And then when I try to map it I get an "unexpected error" pop up.

So I am still looking for a cache with CO name beginning with zero. State by state, there are none (but the search results return lots of results). So I search "United States" for such. Search just gives up after several seconds! No surprise, that's a lot of caches. But I'm STILL looking for a cache that fits that criteria...well, asking for a friend...

Feature Request: Use Delorme polygons as search filters

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:28:26 +0000

Hi, I see that there are now Delorme checkers for many states on project-gc. For example, here is the one for Missouri: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCQA2X/17089

Inside each polygon there is a label that currently appears to list the name of the polygon and the number of caches found by the user that fall within the polygon. From Missouri: MO-028 or MO-027 (348 caches found)

FEATURE REQUEST: Can the links attached to the polygon labels invoke a search of the caches that fall within the polygon? It would be cool if a search results and map style list was the result of clicking on the link.

Thanks!

Can you search cache logs for a certain word?

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:01:45 +0000

Is there a way to search cache logs? example: can I search for all caches within a certain range (maybe 1oo miles) where the last log had the word pathtag in it?

Advanced search case sensitivity issue

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 23:04:59 +0000

The advanced search on the dashboard behaves counter intuitively at times because it's case sensitive and there is no option, that I could see, to turn off that case sensitivity. Eg: for a challenge you don't qualify for so you want to search to find caches where the cache owners name starts with an X. This will bring up cache owners starting with an X but not those starting with an x. Similarly searching for a word in a cache name is needlessly difficult because of the case sensitivity.

Could you default the search to case insensitive as that's what most people would expect and add a checkbox option to turn on case sensitivity for the field.

List caches with field notes

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 08:55:23 +0000

Pretty much what the title says: is it possible to obtain a list of the caches to which I have added a text note?

I know how to do this using the filters in the GC website but I'd prefer the output list from project-gc since it makes it easier to copy paste some data I'm interested in in a text file.

Advanced Search - Archived Caches

Wed, 25 May 2016 20:25:01 +0000

In the advanced search area, I started playing with the archived caches. I wanted to compare areas with old caches to what is out there now. However, I had a hard time finding caches after 2003... What is going on here? Does the system have to download the rest yet or is it a bug?

Thank you, 7 Iron