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DavidLu17
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January 30, 2026
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Recommendations catalog exclusion - fields with null values

  • January 30, 2026
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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This video (Last Update: February 3, 2025, but it’s obviously out of date) shows you can go to Catalog Search 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
    January 30, 2026

    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
    February 3, 2026

    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!

    Gokul_Agiwal
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    Gokul_AgiwalCommunity Advisor
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    February 3, 2026

    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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