Add the NOT Boolean operator to the Advanced Search in Alma
Advanced Search in Alma contains currently only AND and OR Boolean operators - it would be very useful to have the NOT operator included, so that we can exclude particular records from Logical Sets, rather than creating 2 Logical sets and then combining them with NOT, resulting always in an Itemized set.
Daniela Nastasie
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As part of NERS #7948, Add “Not contains” or “Not equals” to Alma Titles and Inventory Search Indexes Where "Contains" or "Equals" Currently Exist, we will be adding not operators as the comment below suggests.
Please note that, since Alma offers combined enriched bibliographic and inventory search index, and it is possible to search titles by inventory information, the behavior of queries which retrieve bibliographic titles using inventory indexes with NOT operators will be as follows: When searching with a lower-level index "not contains" or "not equals", the search will retrieve all results where one or more inventory entities match the query. For example, searching for titles with location "not equals" library A will retrieve a title with items in both library B and library A, as there is an item that matched the search query.
This behavior was agreed upon with the NERS representatives. -
Manu Schwendener commented
November 2021 release:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/October_2021/November_Sneak_Preview
"The Advanced Search will now offer an option of filtering by ‘Not Equals’. The ‘Not equals’ operator will be added to all relevant indexes"
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Marilou Hinchcliff
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Or, alternatively, add the ability to limit by NOT operators, as in DOES NOT CONTAIN KEYWORDS and PERMANENT PHYSICAL LOCATION DOES NOT EQUAL etc. so we don't have to specify every location except the one we don't want.
