It is possible to do a query by tag, limiting the search to just the tag field. However, there is an issue. If you search for “flying” you also get everything that contains the word “fly” as well. Is there a way to avoid this?
The goal is to search for all of my observations that has “flying” in the tags. That’s not what happens. It includes all sorts of observations I am not interested in. It seems like the search tool is automatically lumping various forms of a word together. That is unhelpful in this case.
Exactly - so they should not be selected by searching for flying, but they are. That is the point. How to search for flying without searching for fly. It was another user who mentioned this issue on a blog for one of my projects.
‘Go to your “Edit Observations” page.
To the right of the “search” field expand the field “Search all fields” and one of the options is to search tags.’
You obviously did not try this before posting this solution. It illustrates the very point I’m making. Doing that and selecting “flying” it selects everything containing “fly”.
Did you try it from the “Edit observations” page or the “Your observations” page?
When I used the “Edit observations” page and put in a word that is in my tags and added a letter to that word, it did not display observations containing just the word itself.
Yes, I did both - also manually editing the URL as in my first post. Entering flying, it showed everything with fly. It appears the software uses elasticsearch.
I see what you mean. When I added a tag for fly and searched flying, It shows everything that contained fly, flies, or flying.
When I used a four letter symbol for a plant and added an additional letter in the search, it found nothing, not even the ones with the four letter symbol.
When you click the question mark it says “Text searches may yield weird results when combined with other filters”.