no results to query with only excluded items in criteria

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miroslav.janov@systemair.sk
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no results to query with only excluded items in criteria

Post by miroslav.janov@systemair.sk » Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:02 pm

Good morning,

please why this query
clas=F24F and APC = NOT CN and PUD [2018-08, 2018-12]
gives 0 results

when this query
clas=F24F and APC = CN and PUD [2018-08, 2018-12]
gives 14561 results?

I wanted to give APC without CN, KR and JP.
How I have to formulate the query criteria with only excluded items?

Thank you very much
Janov


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Re: no results to query with only excluded items in criteria

Post by EPO / EPAL Team » Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:17 am

Good Morning,

Correct queries are:

clas=F24F andnot APC = CN or KR or JP and PUD [2018-08, 2018-12]
or
clas=F24F and not (APC = CN or KR or JP) and PUD [2018-08, 2018-12]

Please note that the use of brackets is mandatory if you use NOT instead of ANDNOT.

Best regards,

Patrick


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