On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Georg Otto <g.otto@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

On 01/11/2015 21:49, Brenda Butler wrote:

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Georg Otto <g.otto@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately, it does not work for me as described in the manual.

For example I have an entry with the Property "Test"

* TODO test
SCHEDULED: <2015-11-01 Sun>
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Test
:END:

C-c am

Match: Category=Test

Try putting the value in double-quotes:

Match: Category="Test"

I should have mentioned that I tried quotes and upper case/ lower case, but no avail...

I tried a few times with different case in the keyword and in the value - it seems both are case-sensitive and must match the item in the entries exactly. And the double-quotes around the value are required.

Now that I look back at your example, I see the search term should be

CATEGORY="Test"

My impression given the message

Headlines with TAGS match: Category="Test"
Press `C-u r' to search again with new search string

is that for some reason it only searches for tags.

But, on the prompt before you get to this one, it says:

m match a TAGS/PROP/TODO query

bjb