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I’ve got some entries that are categorized like so:

Entry ID: #1865
Categories: #10, #17.

Entry ID: #1865
Categories: #10

I need to write an entries tag to get the first entry that has category id #10, and exclude id #17.

Intutively, the tag should be something like this:

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" category="10 not 17"}

or

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" category="10&!17"}

I can’t use a conditional in the loop, because it has to be limited to one entry, and I can’t predict how far I’d have to loop through to find a matching entry, and I can’t break out of a loop when I find it anyways. It’s either a tag param I’m using wrong or missing, or I’ll have to pull it all out and write it as a php function in a module, which I reallllly don’t want to have to do in this instance, because this should be such a simple operation.

Hi tcast,

I see what you’re trying to accomplish, but you’re suspicions are right: there’s not a native way to do that. The only thing I can think of to accomplish this natively is to negate all the categories you don’t want to appear and use the uncategorized_entries parameter to exclude entries that aren’t yet categorized. It’s not elegant, but it should work.

Hope this helps!