How to search for empty dates

Vladimir Alexiev

For quality control, I want to find all items with empty dates . But Advanced Search has no such option.

(For Abstract I was able to do it, with criterion Does not contain "a")

adamsmith

One quick way is to not use a search but instead just sort by Date or Year in the middle panel.

Vladimir Alexiev

Yes, but when I fill a date, I jump to a different place in the list

mjthoraval

You can first tag the items with empty dates and then use that tag to filter those items.

nickbart

You can also create a helper Saved Search with the condition 'Date is in the last 1,000 years' (or a similar query that captures all items with non-empty dates), along with a second Saved Search using 'Collection is not helper'.

Vladimir Alexiev

@nickbart thanks a lot!!!!