How to exclude a player or tag from search results?

๐Ÿ’ป Environment/Context

  • Search & filters
  • Tags
  • Teams & players

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โ“ Issue/Question

  • Most searches for X are useless as they pick up a completely different player; is there a way to filter out certain tags or player profiles as you search?
  • A broad search returns media of a similarly named player, or media where several players are tagged, and you want only the one you searched for

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๐Ÿ‘Œ Resolution/Answer

  • Select the player from the suggestions rather than pressing Enter, so the search runs on the player tag instead of the free text, which also matches file names and descriptions
  • Use the advanced search to exclude a tag: add the player you want, then add the player or tag you do not want as an excluded tag; media carrying the excluded tag drop out of the results

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  • Filter to media with a single player tag when you only want that player: in the filters, set the number of players to one, so group shots with other tagged players are left out

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  • Stack more tags, such as an event or an action, to narrow the results further

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๐Ÿฅš Cause

  • A free-text search matches the words across tags, file names and descriptions, so a name shared by two players, or a word in a description, pulls in unrelated media

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๐Ÿ”– Notes