Thoughts on "negative indexes"

[simoncn]

(26-10-2014 14:58)beckphotonik Wrote:  MinimServer indexing is great if you know what you want but is/can/should there be a way of selecting an index to exclude rather than include items.
For example, I am currently going down the Genre/Subgenre tag route to manage what is displayed on my control point. Rather than select say: Classical>Romantic>Concerto>Piano, it would be nice to be able to say e.g. Classical but Exclude Baroque>Violin and be presented with a list of what's left.
I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions on this.

It would be possible to support this but the user interface is problematical. For example, every tag could have both include and exclude choices but most users wouldn't appreciate this. Another option is to allow specific tags in indexTags to be designated as include/exclude tags, so these tags would have both include and exclude choices wherever they appear and all other tags would have only include choices. Is your requirement specific to Baroque or would you want to see it for all tag choices in all menus?