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[bug] timeEstimate search misbehaves

thomasghenry says:
I originally posted this in "Ideas" because it started out as just the two ideas, now nested in there, but really it's a bug report.

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I don't always enter timeEstimate data in a standardized way and I get funky results when searching by timeEstimate. For example RTM accepts "5" as a time estimate. I have no idea what I meant by "5". It was probably a typo. Sometimes the item with timeEstimate:5 comes up in searches.... sometimes it doesn't, but there isn't a pattern that's obvious to me that determines this. I think it thinks it's 5 minutes, but I'm not sure.

Really what I'd like (what I was trying to do when I noticed this) is to be able to search for things that do not have time estimates at all.

example:
hasTimeEstimate:false

Currently, when I search "timeEstimate:" I get two results. One has a timeEstimate of "5" and the other "1 week".

'timeEstimate:"< 6 minutes"' yields the "5" result, a "1 week" result, and a "5m" result.

'timeEstimate:"<6"' yields nothing.

'timeEstimate:"> 6"' gives a list of things ranging from "5m" to "2h" .... but nothing on the scale of days or weeks.

"timeEstimate:>10" yields the same, but "timeEstimate:<10" yields nothing.

If it can't handle my shorthand, it shouldn't accept it (as it does reject things like "timeEstimate:bjork"... I tried).

"timeEstimate:<1day" gives results including tasks with times of:

"5"
"15 mins"
"1 week"
"1month"
"2h"

"timeEstimate:>1day" and 'timeEstimate:"> 1 day" ' both return nothing.

While you're at it, it would be nice to be able to sort lists by time estimate.


Thanks for your time!
Posted at 2:26pm on February 14, 2008
thomasghenry says:
hehehe... i can't set bjork.. but i can search for her... and get results!


"Search Results
(2 tasks)
Searched for: timeEstimate:bjork"

their times are "5" and "1 week"

Posted 16 years ago
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Hmm, we'll check this out and see what's going on here (Bjork probably isn't a valid time estimate) -- thanks for letting us know!
Posted 16 years ago
thomasghenry says:
thanks for the reply! looking forward to your results.
Posted 16 years ago
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