# Boolean "OR" broken?
**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149
**Category:** User
**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149 "2022-03-31T11:09:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@herrdeh](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/herrdeh)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/1 "2022-03-31T11:09:40Z")
I learned that I can search for
`Article contains string xxx` OR `Article contains string yyy` by
`Article: xxx; yyy` - separated with semicolon.
Now I get a result with search for “SKR” in a warehouse - the whole list with “SKR100x24” “SKR90x24” etc. And I get results for all the “SB” items.
But when doing a `Artikel: SKR; SB` search, the list is empty.
My fault - or a bug?
Greetings,
Wolf
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2022, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/2 "2022-03-31T11:49:48Z")
This form correspond to a `in` operator so it will find only product with the exact name ‘SKR’ or ‘SB’.
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### Author:  [@herrdeh](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/herrdeh)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/3 "2022-03-31T13:15:23Z")
Arrrgh. Understood.
I grouped my articles by key phrases and measures, such as “SKR80x20” or “SKR64x24”; or “SB40x6” and “SB33x6”. Is threre another way to create a list of all “SKR” and all “SB” items at a time?
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### Author:  [@pokoli](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/pokoli)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/4 "2022-04-01T08:01:28Z")
> [@herrdeh](#):
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> Is threre another way to create a list of all “SKR” and all “SB” items at a time?
`Article: xxx or Article: yyy`
This will produce a OR domain testing both conditions
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### Author:  [@herrdeh](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/herrdeh)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/5 "2022-04-01T08:55:37Z")
Thank you very much - this helps a lot.
Nevertheless, I need to say that the present behaviour is really confusing, counter-intuitive and frustrating.
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### Author:  [@herrdeh](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/herrdeh)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/6 "2022-04-05T05:46:09Z")
My suggestion in general on this is to improve the search dialogue to have a more intuitive approach. Evolution PIM has got this dialogue to create mail filters, which may give some inspiration:
We could have a pop up selector for type of search criteria, a type in box for the search string, a “add more” button, a selector for the type of boolean - etc.
And finally a check box “save search” with a text box.
When exploring improvement of the search feature, please remember that at present (v6.0), AFAIK there is no search feature at all at general ledger, loss&earnings (and maybe some other of this type I’m not aware of.
Cheers,
Wolf
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/boolean-or-broken/5149/7 "2022-05-05T05:46:23Z")
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