exclude search

Certified Senior Developer

When searching for objects in appian, is there a way to exclude something? Like if I was going to Google something, for example, I could search for "fruit" but not "apples" by typing "fruit -apples" is there some equivalent in Appian? Most of the objects in my application have a specific prefix and I'd like to search for the ones that don't have that prefix so I can eliminate them. 

  Discussion posts and replies are publicly visible

Parents
  • 0
    Certified Lead Developer

    Unfortunately not - searching is pretty one-dimensional (and also not super consistent between different places in Appian that have searching functionality).  For instance we can't even search an exact string when searching by Expression, so if I try to search out all interfaces with "a!gridField_19r2", i get all interfaces containing "gridField" OR(inclusive) containing "19r2".  I've been asking for expanded functionality in this regard almost since the feature was introduced, but... Shrug

Reply
  • 0
    Certified Lead Developer

    Unfortunately not - searching is pretty one-dimensional (and also not super consistent between different places in Appian that have searching functionality).  For instance we can't even search an exact string when searching by Expression, so if I try to search out all interfaces with "a!gridField_19r2", i get all interfaces containing "gridField" OR(inclusive) containing "19r2".  I've been asking for expanded functionality in this regard almost since the feature was introduced, but... Shrug

Children
No Data