[ANSTHRLD] Conflict Checking using "oanda"

[Bob Wade]

Am keping the subject title you used in this response to address the way you were trying to search for possible conflicts.
 
The search forms listed at
http://oanda.sca.org/
are effectively used only by experienced heralds who know the classification codes for the various types of charges.  The rest of us are usually better off searching where the OandA is already broken down into charge classificatons, the Online SCA Ordinary - Master Index
http://oanda.sca.org/ordinary/index.html
 
Experiment navigating through it for a while and then come back with specific questions on how to use it more effectively.
 
Tostig

--- On Sat, 9/11/10, Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com>
Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Conflict Checking using "oanda"
To: "Ansteorran Heralds List" <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 10:52 PM



First off... If there is a better title... lets use it.. 
now for the meat and taters of the email

http://oanda.sca.org/

since you all were so kind to help me with my device.. 
figured i would attempt to do my own badge
now.. this is the badge i am attempting to conflict check  

Blazon:
Fieldless, a cross quarterly argent and gules, surmounted by a mullet of eight points pierced sable

Emblazon:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll227/aednial/badgecolored.gif

now... coming to the "oanda"
i broke it down into several different queries

First i looked for fieldless - returned on the query as invalid, so i went in and manually looked it up via the "F" link  still nothing so.. onward

I then went onto cross...  there are several versions of the cross, i wanted just a good old fashioned plain cross. so i did not add a descriptor to it
i came up with the following query : CRAC:multicolor:sole primary  -  because the cross is dual colored, and since it is underneath the mullet and first in the blazon i took it as the "primary" charge.. 
i found several, but none that appeared to be a plain cross.. and none that were quarterly argent and gules.
after pulling up the result list i checked for conflicts using the "find" feature built into my browser, typing two searches: {quarterly} , {argent and gules}

i then moved on to the mullet figuring that the cross was not conflicting, since i wanted my mullet similar to the ones on my device.
i came up with the following query : STAR:sable:4 or more:charged - because the mullet is of course sable, with eight tines or points, and i assumed the peircing counts as a charge ( mainly because the find function pulled up pierced on the charged search and not on the uncharged)
again after pulling up the result list i checked for conflicts using the 
"find" feature built into my browser, typing several searches including: {eight points} , {Pierced} , {Surmounting}

again i did not find anything that compares... did i do this process correctly? How about completely ?
id love to just teach myself... but this can get awfully bloody complicated, perhaps in the "I want a device. Now What?"   thread that is going on, someone could make a sort of Oanda Primer?

once again, i appreciate your patience, and thank you all for the help and instruction you have provided...

Jbrandl10


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