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lise:
I have People as follows:

Family
  mom
  dad
Friends
  Jim
  Pat

How can I create a smartlist that includes all 'Family' short of selecting each one in the list of People?

gappie:
i have no 12 available at this moment. but could you make the rule people>contains>family ?
it is something that does not work in mc13, 'contains' is not an option anymore. one thing i do is making a calculated field with 'keywords' (in your case 'people') and use 'contains' on that field..

 :)
gab

lise:
Thanks gappie.  I couldn't get people>contains>family to work.

And while your second solution might work, I'm not tempted to create more fields just to search my existing fields. I've just spent alot of time getting rid of fields.

JRiver folks... will there be some way to include the root of a nested field as a search term in a smartlist? If not, I'm going to undo all the nesting I just did.

Matt:
This works, although I don't know if the Smartlist Editor will like it:
[People]=[Family],[Family\"

(means include Family and anything that starts with Family\; it could be abbreviated [People]=[Family" but this will break if you also have "Family2" defined)

marko:
I've had problems with list fields and the smartlist editor in my bug report for some time now..
The problem is that if you try to use 'contains' the editor changes the search to 'is'...

the editor will change [people]=family to [people]=[family]

The work around is to use an expression based search:

[=isequal([people],family,8)]=1

-marko.

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