See the Filters help page for more information about filters.
Use the Role term to filter people based on whether they had a particular role in an event. Returns true when the subject's Role name passes the filter condition described by the term's comparison properties.
The term evaluates the Role name. Note that the Role label is different. The Role name is specified by the records read from the genealogy database and does not change based on language settings. The Role label is determined by several factors including the Role name but may be adjusted based on language settings.
Properties
Operator
Choose an Operator from the pull-down menu.
For all comparisons, letter case does not matter, so "a" matches "A", for example.
The choices are:
- Equals – Returns true if the text in the Role name and the comparand text are equal.
- Does not equal – Returns true if the text in the Role name and the comparand text are not equal.
- Empty – Returns true if the text in the Role name is empty.
- Not empty – Returns true if the text in the Role name is not empty.
- Starts with – Returns true if the text in the Role name starts with the comparand text.
- Does not start with – Returns true if the text in the Role name does not start with the comparand text.
- Contains – Returns true if the comparand text occurs somewhere in the text in the Role name.
- Does not contain – Returns true if the comparand text does not occur somewhere in the text in the Role name.
- Matches – Returns true if the text in the Role name matches the Regular Expression in the comparand. Regular Expressions in Gedcom Publisher are always case-insensitive.
- Does not match – Returns true if the text in the Role name does not match the Regular Expression in the comparand. Regular Expressions in Gedcom Publisher are always case-insensitive.
- Ends with – Returns true if the text in the Role name ends with the comparand text.
- Does not end with – Returns true if the text in the Role name does not end with the comparand text.
Comparand
Set the Comparand to the text you want to compare to the Role name.
Title
Use the Title property to set the title of the filter term. Gedcom Publisher will set the title automatically when you change one of the other properties. If you want to use your own title, set the Title property after you set the other term properties.