Dashboard: Filtering

On the Dashboard, there may be too many projects. There are many ways to filter the list.

You don't see all projects by default: Normally, memoQ doesn't show projects where the latest deadline passed more than 30 days ago. These are called the Recent projects.

This is the translator's dashboard: You see this Help page because you come from the translator pro edition of memoQ. If you need the page about the project manager's version, click here.

To filter the list of projects, use these boxes directly above the list:

What can you do?

From the drop-down box on the right, you can choose a filter that's already there. At the beginning, these are your choices:

  • Recent projects: Shows projects that were created in the last 30 days, or where the last deadline is not older than 30 days. When you look at the list of local projects, this is called Recent projects.
  • Active projects: Shows all projects that have not been officially wrapped up. There's a Wrap up command that archives a project.
  • All projects: Shows all projects on the computer or on the server.

Type a word or two in the box that says "search".

memoQ immediately filters the list to projects that have these words in their names.

When memoQ looks for keywords, it checks the current list. For example, if the list was already filtered for Recent projects only, the keyword search happens among the recent projects only.

You can search for projects with certain properties. For example, you can filter the list for projects that are smaller than 9000 words. Or, for projects that are larger than 10,000 words, and are done for a specific client.

Example: Filter for projects that are larger than 5000 words, and are being done for memoQ Ltd. (as a client).

  1. Click the pencil icon on the left of the "search" text box. The Edit filter window appears.
  2. In the first row:
    • In the Field name drop-down box, choose Size. (Note the immense amount of fields you can choose from.)
    • In the Relationship drop-down box, choose '>'. (That is, "greater than").
    • In the Value column, click the text box, and type 5000.
  3. In the second row:
    • In the Field name drop-down box, choose Client.
    • In the Value field - that becomes a drop-down box -, choose memoQ Ltd. In the drop-down box, memoQ lists clients that were noted in at least one project. So if you haven't done work for memoQ Ltd., it won't be on the list. Then choose someone else.
  4. Click OK. Click the magnifier icon on the right.

    memoQ filters the list to projects that are larger than 5000 words and were done for memoQ Ltd.

Note the search expression that appears in the text box:

You can actually edit it here.

To stop filtering the list: Click the red X   on the right.

memoQ always filters the restricted list. For example, if you set up a filter while looking at Recent projects only, the filter will work within the recent projects only.

You can't save filters: But memoQ always remembers the last one.