Excluding Entries and Subentries in MDF

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Someone just asked me if there is a way to exclude some whole entries and some subentries in MDF. He thought there was such a way and it sounds vaguely familiar to me also. 

But I couldn't find it. Does anyone remember how to do such a thing?

If not, I've offered to make him a CC table lead-in to the MDF export. It sounds useful and I'll post it here, too, if I make it.

Karen

Toolbox Support

[Alex Francois]

hi Karen,

I guess I would use the filtering option.

For this, you first need to create a filter describing the entries to be retained.

In some cases, the filter can do its job based on the current version of the entries.  For example, imagine I want to export a dictionary only of those entries which have examples (excluding those which don't),  then I can set up a filter to only retain entries "with-examples":

Then when I export to MDF, I would:

1. select the right export process, 
2. hit "Modify"; 
3. then use the Filter records option:

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Finally, in case the criterion for filtering cannot be inferred algorithmically by a simple rule (e.g. "presence of examples", "absence of phonetic transcription"...) then the solution is to add a new field and encode it for each entry, e.g. \export YES or \export NO  (depending on which rule is more economical in terms of work).  

→→→ then your filter could either

• include all entries for which \export has a "YES",   or
• include all entries for which \export does not have a "NO"

And then, once you have a filter that satisfies you, you can export your dictionary using the "Filter records" option.

best

Alex

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Alex François

LaTTiCe — CNRS–ENS–PSL–Sorbonne nouvelle
Australian National University

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[ToolBox SIL]

Hi, Alex,

That's a great solution for excluding whole records! However, sometimes the user wants to exclude only certain subentries. Filters can't do that.

Thank you for describing the Filter solution so well.

Karen

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