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Custom Filter Not Working - Please Help!

CDIns
8 - Asteroid

I have a column in my dataset that is essentially a flag. The flags can be any number between 1 and 100. 

 

I need to filter out 2s and 3s. 

 

When I do my customer filter my syntax is as follows : [Field1]!=2 OR [Field1]!=3

 

The flow runs and nothing gets filtered out. However, when I try a custom filter to just see 2s and 3s using the following syntax it works fine: [Field1}=2 OR [Field1]=3 

 

 

Why does it work for one but not the other? 

 

Thanks in advance, 

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Raj
15 - Aurora

@CDIns 

[Field1] != 2 OR [Field1] != 3: This condition is always true for any value of Field1. If Field1 is 2, the condition [Field1] != 3 is true. If Field1 is 3, the condition [Field1] != 2 is true. For any other value, both conditions are true.


[Field1] != 2 AND [Field1] != 3: This condition is only true if Field1 is neither 2 nor 3, which is what you want.

hope this helps

Mark done if solved.

 

Raj
15 - Aurora

@CDIns 
formula to use to achieve the output

[Field1] != 2 AND [Field1] != 3

JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @CDIns you can also use the Not In operator

 

[Field1] NOT IN (2,3)

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