Question: Library filter syntax

Donnie Hale

Is there a way to express a library filter consisting of the "not" of single filter expression?

I wanted to find everything in my library that did not have a particular "mytag". I was able to achieve this using an expression like:

title:* ANDNOT mytag:"2010-11-2?"

(I have 2 sets of resources tagged with order dates of the form "2010-11-2?".)

This worked - I could confirm via the number matching the filter that the wildcard on title gave me the results I wanted. But that was a pretty slow filter. All I really wanted was the semantic equivalent of a filter like:

NOT mytag:"2010-11-2?"

Is this possible? Thanks,

Donnie

 

Mark Barnes

NOT isn't supported, but you can use rating:>0 to select all resources (it's much quicker than title:*). So:

rating:>=0 ANDNOT mytag:"2010-11-2?"