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JonGold

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UI improvement for Search builder operators
September 04, 2013, 02:17:17 pm
Hi there,

While doing a training recently, a user asked me, "What does '!=' mean?".  I had to explain that this was technical shorthand for "does not equal".  However, when using CiviReports, we saw that the SQL operators had been replaced with non-technical alternatives, like the phrase "does not equal".

Can we redo Search Builder such that we use plain English (or the language of your choice) for the operators to match the reports?  I realize that some operators such as "RLIKE" don't have a good plain English equivalent, but we can make Search Builder more usable with not too much work.
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Re: UI improvement for Search builder operators
September 04, 2013, 03:01:01 pm
Can't we just use the ≠ symbol?
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Re: UI improvement for Search builder operators
September 05, 2013, 02:15:11 pm
Seems like a lot of the labels could be better. How about https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/1609
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Re: UI improvement for Search builder operators
September 13, 2013, 08:30:07 am
Coleman - this is awesome.  Thank you!
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Re: UI improvement for Search builder operators
September 15, 2013, 10:57:21 am
:)
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