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Using Advanced Search
March 07, 2014, 01:33:05 pm
I am struggling for several week now with a complexe search query to send a mass email. Our organization do a lot of events and we would like to send an email to our mailing list and exclude everyone who registered to the specific event we are promoting.

Using the advanced search form  I don't see any option to exclude a specific group (unless I am missing something) so I start looking into the search builder.
When I select
- Contact in Group = Mailing List
- Participant != event ID 3

it returns all user that attendeed an event before and are in the mailing, but no contact that never participated to one of our event (ie 99% of our mailing list).

I am sure I am missing something somewhere as it look a common type of search. Any hit?

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Re: Using Advanced Search
March 08, 2014, 02:14:47 am
You need to create a smart group of everyone who has registered for that event.  Mark the group type as 'mailing list'
 
Then when you are creating your mailing you will be able to exclude that smart group from your mailing

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