Viewed Images

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:27 pm

Hi Lorna

I have again gone into "Viewed Images", typed in Thomas Tait (having first checked in Timeline and made sure that I do indeed have this death cert for 1869), checked the filter box and up comes all the headings you mention showing a "1" above and below "purchased" and that is my lot.

I don't think the search box copes very well with more than one word; try just TAIT and you should get some results.

Best wishes
Lesley

Grendlsmother · Post by **Grendlsmother** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:50 pm

Thanks to everyone who responded. I could swear I'd already tried the untick option, but apparently not because I've tried it just now and it obviously does work.

Thanks again.

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:07 pm

And a big thank you to Lesley (and Trish per PM). Finally seen the light

The one name works beautifully and entering "Surname, Given name" on viewed images works a dream.

Thanks for sticking with me - that will be really useful in future. What great folks you are.

Many thanks (and to Grendlsmother for bringing up the topic to begin with)

Lorna

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:23 pm

Hi Lorna
Good to hear you got it working. I;m sure you won't be the only one puzzled as to how the serch thing is supposed to work. It is helpful in some ways, but it is not the most intuitive search to use.

One thing that bugs the heck out of me is if, for instance, if I have searched an area and time slot for a surname in OPR births, and used M*cn*c*o*l to cover most Mc/MacNic(h)o(l)l variations then unless I enter the wildcards in exactly the same sequence when searching for that previous search, it will not return it as a previously searched result!

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **SarahND** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:08 pm

LesleyB wrote: unless I enter the wildcards in exactly the same sequence when searching for that previous search, it will not return it as a previously searched result!

I heartily agree! This makes the function almost useless for me, since I am always using wildcards and who knows how I did it last time, much less a year ago!

Regards,
Sarah