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Hi,

I feel like i’m going a bit crazy as I can’t see any reason why this isn’t returning the required results…

I’ve created a quick test page with the following code where i’m trying to exclude weblog entries with category id’s of 145 and 146:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="product" category="not 145|146"}
{title} (<em>{categories}{category_name}, {/categories}</em>)

{/exp:weblog:entries}

You can see on the following link that everything is being returned including the entries I’m trying to exclude :(

http://ngnew.nordicgames.se/index.php?/test

category id 145 = bundle pack
category id 146 = peripheral

They’re both part of category_group id 8, so even if I try category_group=“not 8” it still doesn’t work?!?

What am I missing?? :S

What version and build of EE are you using? Any extensions? The entries you wish to exclude, are they assigned to id 145 / 146 exclusively, or some others in addition to that?

Hi Ingmar,

I’m on EE 1.6.9, I’m using various extensions across the site though none that deal with categories.

As the link above shows, the entires are not exclusively set to the categories 145/146.

thanks

:: Ed

... the entires are not exclusively set to the categories 145/146.

I am afraid that’s probably the problem: your category parameter is read as “not 145” and “not 146”, but if these entries have other categories they will still match. Can you verify this by using an entry assigned to one of these categories only?

Yeah I can verify that assigning a single category does exclude the record from the output.

Just need to try and figure out a way round this now :S

thanks

:: ed

Actually… I’ve got round it already…

The weblog I’m using has 4 category groups assigned to it, but the items I’m trying to exclude will only ever use 3 of the groups, so by adding the parameter “category_group=‘not 1|3|8’” it’s filtered them out correctly 😊

Excellent 😊 Please post again in case there’s anything else.