Reverse Filter? Removing the results I don't want

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Permalink Reply by Connie Bensen on May 14, 2009 at 5:24pm

Hi Mike,
I'll answer this this weekend. Aaron has provided the path to do this.

(can you send me an email to remind me please - thx Connie)

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Permalink Reply by Mike Driehorst on May 14, 2009 at 6:01pm

Connie,
Thank you!
-Mike

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Permalink Reply by Peeyoosh Chandra on May 24, 2009 at 9:14pm

HI guys,

Would be great if you could share the solution here as well. I am currently running a monitor for a brand that gets a very large number of mentions in SM and MSM. Need to be able to filter data sets to refine the search keywords.

PC

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Permalink Reply by Mike Driehorst on June 7, 2009 at 11:14pm

Peeyoosh,
Sorry for belatedly getting back to you. Here's the process if you have a main keyword or phrase, and then filter those results into subcategories, and want to delete what remains.

Setup>Manage Categories>Create New Category (in otherwords, your subcategory; where you want to place the filtered results)

Setup>Category Rules>Create & Run the rule for the New Category you created above. This will tell SM2 to assign results to the new subcategory for future searches.

For the FIRST time only, you'll have to go into the large category and use the "search filters" tool to get earlier results for your new subcategory. Select them and use "Add to Category" to move them to your new subcategory.

Then, use the "Remove from Category" tool to remove those from the large, main category.

Delete what's left in the main category.

After this initial moving, you should only have to use the "Remove from Category" the items that are now also in the new subcategory. Once those are removed, it's okay to delete what's left.

Connie & others at Techrigy: If I missed something in the above, please clarify/correct.
Thanks.
-Mike

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