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How do I filter to exclude a label? (Trello)

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March 12, 2018

I would like to filter my cards in a board to show everything that doesn't have a certain label. How do? I've tried -label:"red" and -label:"Urgent" and that syntax doesn't work.

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March 14, 2018

It's not possible to add a negative operator to filters, but the search feature does support that: http://help.trello.com/article/808-searching-for-cards-all-boards

Mickie Shipley
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July 30, 2018

Is this a possible feature for the future? 

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Gabe Castillo
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August 3, 2018

We would like this feature as well.

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Rostislav Simonik
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September 24, 2018

Would be great to has given feature, maybe filter by search query to reuse given logic. 

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Jennifer Greco
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October 12, 2018

I would like this as well - search for all cards that do not include one label. Seems like it would be a big help to many.

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jean October 26, 2018

> but the search feature does support that

Yeah, that would be why the question specified filter ;-)

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Martin Buresch
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December 25, 2018

I really appreciate to have such a Feature to exclude labels in the filter option

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Peter Woodman
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December 31, 2018

This is a feature I would use a lot as well.

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March 4, 2019

I would like to see this working in the filter as well.

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Tom_Brown
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March 9, 2019

I'd like to do this so I can find all cards not done

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cassandra
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June 13, 2019

Yes that would be exactly  how I would use it as well. Show any card is is not marked Done for example.

This feature would be very helpful

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Christophe Broult
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August 23, 2019

That would be quite useful indeed.

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Karena Kreger
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September 6, 2019

I also would need this!

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José Vieira
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December 8, 2019

upvote on that! :) filter out labels would be a great feature ;-)

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December 18, 2019

Needs this too. Hope that helps ;)

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fiona dower May 3, 2020

We need this too. Has it been implemented yet?

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Nathan Cayzer
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June 9, 2020

Such an important feature... PLEASE add!

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Marc Pfeiffer January 5, 2021

Would love to have this as a feature too please

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June 17, 2021

100% need this feature. I'm kinda shocked it's not a thing yet.

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Logged in for first time to upvote. 

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Biel
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October 22, 2021

indeed an important, and I'd expect widely used, feature

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December 19, 2021

Me too please. This would be very helpful. 

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Ryan Walsh
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January 5, 2022

The search workaround suggested here isn't as useful as being able to see my normal view of the whole board but with certain cards excluded based on which labels they have. I'd really appreciate that view. Thanks.

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Johannes Pöhlmann
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July 4, 2022

I agree. The search workaround is not very helpful. The search list disappears when I click on one item. The filter keeps in place once I open and close a card. This is what I need. 

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kenneth-loh
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October 4, 2022

It is unfathomable that anyone could have left out this feature at the first place, let alone leaving it out for another 4 more year!

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Rob Redmond
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February 8, 2024

If that was unfathomable, kenneth-loh, imagine being here in the future of 2024 and it still doesn't support regular expression filter creation.

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May 21, 2020

I so would like to have this feature too. My most used board has 26 labels. Searching and filtering NEED exclusions. 

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Mutahhar
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July 3, 2022

@Mickie Shipley 
Any update on this, please?

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Gabe Castillo
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January 20, 2022

It's almost been 4 years since this issue was raised. Is this on the roadmap? It is difficult to create our workflows without label exclusion.

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Johannes Pöhlmann
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July 1, 2022

It‘s a must have feature for me. Sorting by filter keeps the cards in its lists. And it works within the app.

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Mutahhar
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January 25, 2022

I am in need of this feature too...

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Erhan Arat
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January 19, 2022

Add this feature please!!!

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Felix X
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February 19, 2023

Here's how I was able to do this using the browser's developer console:

Quick answer:

To hide all the cards with the stock pink label:

x = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("a.list-card:has([data-color=pink])"));

x.forEach(x => {x.style.display="none"});

Full procedure & details:

  1. While on the board, scroll so that the label you want to filter against is visible on a card.
  2. Open developer tools via F12, Ctrl+Shift+i, or the menu.
  3. Click 'Inspect' or Ctrl+Shift+c, then mouse over the label itself (not the whole card)
  4. Look at the HTML of the selected element, and the child elements - there should be a button element or similar with some fairly distinctive aria attributes, and if it's one of the stock labels, "data-color". Note one of these attributes. In my example, I note that the stock pink label (the one with hotkey 9).
  5. Go to the Console tab of developer tools, or show the console below the Elements view.
  6. Input the code in the block above.

Explanation of the querySelectorAll parameter:

":has()" is a "relational pseudo-class" CSS selector - see https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors/#relational .

Cards in Trello are <a> elements, and they (usually? all?) have a CSS class= attribute including the class "list-card".

The visible label tags on cards are somewhere within the HTML of the card's <a> element.

So, this selector says, "give me all <a> elements that are cards, and which also have some sub-element with an attribute named data-color that has the value pink." Or, looking at it another way, "look at all the elements with the attribute data-color=pink, go up through the ancestors of each of them, then return any that happen to be cards".

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February 22, 2023

This is a very simple work around for the time being. Thanks for posting!

Deleted user October 10, 2023

hey @Felix X thank you very much for this valuable sharing.

 

i tried your method it worked. but there is one problem though. there are too many items in our board's lists, thus they are pretty long.

 

the method you suggested only clears visible cards with that label. are there any way to make it clear for whole items in all lists?

 

thanks a lot!

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Saijo July 1, 2024

I made a bookmarklet to filter cards locally, this will only work in your browser, when you reload all changes will go away. 

https://saijogeorge.com/trello-filter-exclude-label/

 

trello-filter-exclude-label

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WG Trello Admin
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November 30, 2022

I have found a bit of a workaround which will give you a list of cards that DO NOT have certain labels.

Its using the trello Dashcards powerup to count the cards that meet the "not that label" criteria. and in doing so provides a list of all the cards that comply, which you can export to CSV for further examination.
https://trello.com/power-ups/6048e897c73d032a983e2a7c/dashcards

Its not a replacement for being able to filter the cards in place within the board, but at least gets you the card data you are looking for.

Dash card example.jpg

Lisa Roberts
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December 9, 2022

Thank you, unfortunately not allowed for my board.  Since it does not fully meet requested functionality I will not pursue requesting company to allow.

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