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NOTEXISTS filter for Projects from Templates

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In my housekeeping dashboard, I have a project report that tells me how many projects were created from each template in the system. I'm interested in knowing which templates have not been used in more than 6 months (or however long). The current project report will show templates that have been under-utilized so long as 1 or more project was made from the template. But it won't show me templates that were used 0 times. I tried to draft a NOTEXISTS filter to show templates where no projects existed; but I think EXISTS can only evaluate collections. So I can look for templates that have no documents (or do have documents); but projects is not a collection on the TMPL object. Can anyone confirm that it's not possible to display a list of templates that have never been used; or not used during a timeframe? William English T-Mobile Marketing & Experience
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Try this in a Template Report...in the Filter tab, switch to text mode and add the following: EXISTS:a:$$EXISTSMOD=NOTEXISTS EXISTS:a:$$OBJCODE=PROJ EXISTS:a:templateID=FIELD:ID I just tried this in my instance, and it populated with a list of Templates, which when I double checked the list by running a project report where project template ID equated to a template in this template report, it came back with 0. So, upon this quick check, the above code seems to work. Terry Hynd EBSCO Information Services

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Oh nice, we aren't limited to collections like I thought. Thanks Terry!
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