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Jan 30, 2026 10:17 PM UTC
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Recommendations catalog exclusion - fields with null values

We’ve apparently lost some functionality in recent updates.
This video (Last Update: February 3, 2025, but it’s obviously out of date) shows you can go to Catalog Search > Advanced Search then filter for value is present or not, then save as either a Collection or an Exclusion:
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/target/using/recommendations/entities/exclusions
However, my Catalog Search no longer has a Save As button, whether using basic or advanced search.

Someone posted a similar question before, noting that the Exclusions dialogue doesn’t allow you to build complex rules, so you have to make a separate Exclusion for each.


However, my current rule builder in Exclusions no longer has the value is present/not present condition in the dropdown.

I want to make ideally one rule to exclude products w/o images, but could make two separate ones for each condition:

thumbnailUrl does not contain any of {no-image.jpg, missing-image.jpg} → this is doable

and 

thumbnailUrl value is not present → How do you do this now?

 

Catalog Search - no Save As option
Exclusion rule - no Value Not Present condition

 

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DavidLu17Author
Level 3
Jan 30, 2026 11:32 PM UTC

Figured I'd go into each individual collection and exclude the bad/blank thumbnails, but Value Not Present is not an option there either. Tried combinations of blanks and zeros or wildcards, no luck. Think I'll put a dummy value like "no-image.jpg" in the blanks for the next upload, then the live hits should collect "no-image.jpg" values on page too. This is dumb, why do we lose functionality in “upgrades”?

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DavidLu17Author
Level 3
Feb 3, 2026 5:08 PM UTC

I discovered for the entity.message you can use <= 0 like a boolean for missing values, but that doesn't work with thumbnailURL...grrr.

And guys, really: Catalog Search is pretty much useless unless you have Save As option!

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Gokul_Agiwal
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
Feb 3, 2026 5:20 PM UTC

The rule builders options got changed. 
Did you try with options like does not equal any of or does not contain any of ...
 


does not equal any of - If you leave the Operands field empty and select this operator it could means the field must contains some value  …

 

Thanks

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Thanks, Gokul