Filtering Attribute to Exclude Specific City
TLDR Atul asked how to filter a city attribute excluding 'Berlin.' Kishore Nallan suggested it's not possible directly but to use a string array and !=.
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Mar 01, 2023 (7 months ago)
Atul
07:47 PMWe have an attribute called
{"city":"Berlin Chennai Pune Mumbai"}and i want to apply a filter like:
filter_by=city:!Berlin means, city not contains Berlin .Is it possible?
If yes, please help.
Mar 02, 2023 (7 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
01:36 AMfilter_by=city:!= BerlinAtul
05:38 AMThis is not
contains (like) , this is equals (=)Atul
05:39 AMcity not contains BerlinKishore Nallan
05:49 AMAtul
06:51 AMYou are right
thanks
Kishore Nallan
06:52 AM1
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