only NOT searches

skalyanaraman · Post by **skalyanaraman** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:34 pm

Hi,
we tried to do a search,

TEXT like '-Bush' and got this error,

000 Cannot allow an all NOT logic search in the function open api engine
100 Setmmapi -Bush Failed
100 Metamorph open failed.

Why?
Can we get around it?
Thanks

Post by **John** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:08 pm

You would need to write it as TEXT NOT LIKE 'bush'.

The engine works by finding terms, and will then look between the delimiters for any "NOT" terms to exclude. With all NOT terms it doesn't have anything to anchor on as a possible match.