Smart Groups: excluding a group

[Altostratus]

Hi,

I can’t figure out how to create a smart group that does the following:

• Search in database
• (All matches “abc” OR
• All matches “def”) AND
• Item is not part of or descendant of group X

It’s the last condition I can’t define — there is not “group” condition in the conditions list and “tag” doesn’t work.

Thanks.

[BLUEFROG]

There is no group or Location criterion.

In the Info: Generic inspector, you could set Exclude from Search on the group you don’t want results from.

You could also tag the group, setting File > Database Properties to Inherit Tags of Groups, then set a criterion of Tag is not …

The latter would also not inhibit other searches from the toolbar search field.

[Altostratus]

OK, thanks for the tip. IMHO it would be a good feature to add, because “Exclude from search” is a database-wide setting which is very useful, but sometimes you need to exclude some groups from a Smart Group and using tags for this feels like somewhat of a hack.

[cgrunenberg]

We’ll consider this for future releases.

[Altostratus]

Thanks!

[hogru]

+1 from me, I was trying to do the same thing (excluding one group for a specific search) and came here since I couldn’t figure it out.

[pfarrelle]

+1 for me too (but I do appreciate the ability to quickly turn off search in a group)

[RDK]

+1 from me too!

[biguma]

+1 too