> 1. Before reading your email again it was not clear to me how to get the > query to be activated until I tried to see what would happen if I click on > the and/or buttons. Only then I saw that those buttons add the query with > an 'and' or 'or' to the existing query.
I had the same trouble initially. From an end-user point of view, I would prefer the "build query" as it is implemented for http://bitbucket.org projects (to be found by clicking the "Issues" tab, and selecting "Open issues") e.g. at this link: https://bitbucket.org/rochacbruno/surveycloud/issues?status=new&status=open