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I have imported over 1000 entries from an xml file into different fields.

now i have advanced search that search through all the fields.

i want to exclude a matrix field with a specific product entry like so

search:products_category="=not 414|413"}

but that doesn’t seem to work
is there any other way i can exclude field:products_category with input 414 and 413 ?

nothing?

Hi Visual,

nothing?

I feel your frustration and I apologize for your wait! Your original post was on a US Business holiday. We do our best to respond within 48hrs. Sometimes it takes us a bit longer after a 3 day weekend 😊

What context are you uising the search parameter? If you are using it in a channel entries tag, it won’t work as you expect. The search paramater is only avaibale on a few field types, and Matrix is not one of them.

However, after having a quick look at the Matrix Docs, it appears the search parameter is availble within the Matrix field tag pair.

~

The project need to finish asap, so i’m in need of a lot of attention 😊
I hope you enjoyed the holiday 😊

I was wondering if it is possible in anyway for the current code to work

{exp:search:advanced_form result_page="search" no_result_page="search/noresultss" dynamic=“no” search_in="everywhere" search:productgroep_nl="not 411|414|413"}

I know it’s possible to exclude a ‘category’ but I’m not sure how to exclude specific value from a matrix field from the results page.

I assume it should be first processed from the input field before the results are even displayed?

Hi Visual,

The native search module doesn’t work like that.

The most control can be had using The Advance Search Form. The parameters you are using are only available on the Simple Search form,

search_in="everywhere"

or aren’t parameters at all:

dynamic=“no”... search:productgroep_nl="not 411|414|413"

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,