Filters

Overview

The ‘Active Filters’ dialog lets you control which caches will be displayed in the main list. Using the various settings accessible through this interface, you will be able to tailor the properties of the caches that you want to see as well as the ones that you don’t want. You can access such properties by double-clicking on a filter type or by clicking the ‘Config’ button after highlighting the filter that you want to work with.

 

To activate a filter type, simply check it in the ‘Active Filters’ list. When more than one filter is checked, they form an ‘AND’ condition. This means that the more filters are active, the more selective your criteria becomes. As a result, the final list of caches will be smaller.

 

The ‘Cache Attributes’ filter type is checked by default.

Bearing & Distance

This filter dialog will let you specify the directions and the radius from your current position within which GPXSonar will limit the display of caches.

Cache Attributes

This filter dialog will let you control the following cache properties:

 

  1. Show Ignored caches: If you had decided to hide specific caches in the list and you want to see them again, place a checkmark here. All of the ignored caches will become visible again. If you want to un-hide a cache permanently, simply click the ‘Edit’ button to bring up the list of all hidden caches and take out the ones that you want to see.
  2. Hide Found Caches: Check this option if you want to hide the caches that you’ve already found from the list. The caches that you’ve found are marked with a green note icon.
  3. Show Only: This option works at the exclusion of the previous ones. It will allow you to only show the caches that you’ve found (marked with a green note icon in the list) or all the caches bearing some kind of a note icon (gray, red or yellow). The ‘show only’ feature is useful when you want to easily see the caches that you have visited and when you want to log your finds online.

Cache Containers

This filter dialog will let you specify the kind of cache containers that you’re interested in. By default, all cache containers are checked. Uncheck the ones that do not interest you.

Cache Types

This filter dialog will let you specify the kind of caches that interest you. By default, all the cache types are checked.

Countries

This filter dialog will let you restrict the cache list by country. This is handy when you have a Pocket Query containing caches for different countries (say, U.S and Canada) but want to limit the cache list in GPXSonar to only one (or more) of them. Check the country name(s) to which the cache list will be limited. By default all the country names are unchecked.

 

Search

 

This filter will let you restrict the content of the main cache list based on full or partial keyword matches. The ‘Waypoint’, ‘Name’ and ‘Owner’ columns of the main list are used to perform the string matches. If a match occurs on any of them, the cache will be included in the result set.

States

This filter dialog will let you restrict the cache list by state. This is handy when you have a Pocket Query containing caches for different states (say, NY, PA and NJ) but want to limit the cache list in GPXSonar to only one (or more) of them. Check the state name(s) to which the cache list will be limited. By default all the state names are unchecked.

 

 

 

 

The List Of Active Filters

 

 

Bearing & Distance Filter

 

 

Cache Attribute Filter

 

 

Managing Ignored Caches

 

 

Selecting Cache Containers

 

 

Selecting Cache Types

 

 

Selecting Caches By Countries

 

 

Searching For Caches By Keyword

 

 

Selecting Caches By State