exclude all subcategories from search

Fynjisx · 11-16-2022, 12:43 AM

there are many subcategories. How to exclude them from the search without highlighting all of them?

ownedbycats · 11-16-2022, 12:57 AM

If I'm understanding you right: Click it four times, and you'll get this icon:

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Here, everything in Fanfiction.Mass Effect, Fanfiction.Elder Scrolls, and Fanfiction.Other is excluded from the book list.

EDIT: Additionally, the search will look like not tags:"=.Fanfiction". Note the period following the equal sign.

ownedbycats · 11-16-2022, 01:01 AM

You can also exclude entire categories by clicking on them twice:

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Don't do this on 'authors' - it (and title, which isn't in the tag browser) is a special case where it's impossible to have an undefined value, so you'll end up with 0 results.

11-16-2022, 12:43 AM	#1
Fynjisx Connoisseur Posts: 91 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2022 Location: Greenland Device: xiaomi	exclude all subcategories from search there are many subcategories. How to exclude them from the search without highlighting all of them?

11-16-2022, 12:57 AM	#2
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,358 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	If I'm understanding you right: Click it four times, and you'll get this icon: Here, everything in Fanfiction.Mass Effect, Fanfiction.Elder Scrolls, and Fanfiction.Other is excluded from the book list. EDIT: Additionally, the search will look like not tags:"=.Fanfiction". Note the period following the equal sign. Last edited by ownedbycats; 11-16-2022 at 01:03 AM.

11-16-2022, 01:01 AM	#3
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,358 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	You can also exclude entire categories by clicking on them twice: Don't do this on 'authors' - it (and title, which isn't in the tag browser) is a special case where it's impossible to have an undefined value, so you'll end up with 0 results.

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