I’m working on a research project, and have a Group for it. I also have a Smart Group which I would like to show the entire contents of the project’s Group, as well as some miscellaneous items that may be related, but are not in the main Group.
My current Smart Group ends up showing several items repeated, as they are both in the Group and tagged with a related tag. Is there a way to show the same items only once?
My rules:
Any of the following are true:
– Tag is “Project tag A”
– Tag is “Project tag B”
– All of the following are true:
---- Kind is Group
---- Name is “Project Group”
Specifically, many items in “Project Group” are also tagged with “Project tag A”, so they show twice in the list.
Below is a screenshot of my rules, and a partial screenshot of the resulting list. The item marked with arrows is the same item, but appears twice, because it is both in the project Group (“LACMA A&T 2021”) and is tagged with a relevant tag (“lacma-art-and-technology”).
There are many other items which are in other general-use groups (eg, “Articles to Read”), but have a relevant tag to this project, so I want to capture them for this list.
I’m hoping to hide the doubled-up items. Or, more accurately, only show them once.
Indeed. But there are also items in the Group (and its sub-Groups) that are not similarly tagged. So closing the Group would hide these non-repeating items.
It’s the overlap of my search criteria that I’m hoping to only show once.
Other programs have a “not” or “none of the following” rule that might be appropriate here. I could add that to one of the sub-rules.
Your smart group is looking for the Group or the item. Since the item is contained inside the group, it would logically show when the group is expanded.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about software, not being a developer myself, it’s definitely that things are more complicated than we users might think!
