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Old 04-27-2010, 02:55 PM   #1
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Hi Kovid. I need some help setting up a search. I have several tags I use (among other tags for other purposes) for genre. For example, Genre: Mystery and Genre: Romance. What I want to do is add a 'general fiction' tag for novels that do not fit into another category. Is it possible to do a search for books which do not have any genre tag? They will have other tags such as source or format so I am not sure how to use the sort here. I want to get a list of every book which does not have one of the other genre tags applied, irrespective of what else it may be tagged about...
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Hi Kovid. I need some help setting up a search. I have several tags I use (among other tags for other purposes) for genre. For example, Genre: Mystery and Genre: Romance. What I want to do is add a 'general fiction' tag for novels that do not fit into another category. Is it possible to do a search for books which do not have any genre tag? They will have other tags such as source or format so I am not sure how to use the sort here. I want to get a list of every book which does not have one of the other genre tags applied, irrespective of what else it may be tagged about...
If your tags are "Genre: Mystery" and "Genre: Romance" then try this:
"not tag:genre"

If your tags are "Mystery" and "Romance" then try this:

"not (tag:mystery or tag:romance ....)"
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Yes, they are all Genre: Mystery etc. I do this so my tags will sort alphabetically in the list with all the genre tags together, all the format tags together etc.
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Yes, they are all Genre: Mystery etc. I do this so my tags will sort alphabetically in the list with all the genre tags together, all the format tags together etc.
That makes it much easier. "not tag:genre" should find what you want. Then highlight all and add your 'general fiction' tag.
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