Eliot,
> I think this question has been asked before.
> Is it possible to hide closed issues from the lists of issues next to
> the [Associate >] button on the associate emails screen?
> This is so that when we have hundreds of closed issues, and a few open
> ones, the selection list does not get stupidly long.
>
That's a great suggestion. I'll add that to our TODO list for the next
release of Eventum.
> Then tried "iss_closed_date=NULL", but didn't work either - how do I
> test for an empty date field?
>
You do "iss_closed_date IS NULL".
--Joao