@NiallC. No problem. Thanks for handling it! Can you tell me how many new users we've had since April 1, and since May 1, and how many of those were registered? Also, can you show me how you did it? I'm preparing a meta question and no matter how many times I read the search page, I'm still confused. I think I'm limited by my iPad too cuz I can't do long queries-unless I just don't know how! Thanks!
@NiallC. Thanks! I have to figure out how to do that type of thing on my iPad! I've been working on some in-line searches using the directions on the search page, and have been able to do some rudimentary stuff. If you have time, would you tell me two things? 1) It seems that I can just put a space between my search criteria. Is that true or do I need to use a semi:colon, comma, etc.?
@Sue I should have time to look at that query later today; if I get it modified to group by month I'll ping you and let you know.
As for searching, you use a colon between operators and operands and spaces between separate terms. So to search for questions that mention red dahlias you'd use:
> is:question red dahlias
The "is:question" is the operator/operand that specifies questions only; the "red" and "dahlias" are the search terms
Thanks-if I want to find questions with dahlias and date created, is there any order in which I have to do that?
Most important, can I do an inline search for first questions in a certain time period? I can't seem to find that on the search help page. You can let me know when you have time. I searched SE Meta for more specific instructions and couldn't find them. If there's a question there to point me to, feel free! Thanks!
@Sue I think you'll have to go to the data explorer for that; you could use the created and is:question operators to find questions posted in a certain range, but there's no way to limit the user information to first posts from the site search.
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