How to select all users who don't have a certain role?

[FlorianA]

It's easy to select all users who have a certain role. E. g.:

users('roles=foo|bar')

selects all users who have at least one of the roles "foo" or "bar". But I failed doing the opposite: selecting all users who don't have role "foo" or don't have role "bar". I even don't manage the case with only one role. Any ideas?

[adrian]

Working for me - what's your code? I know you say it's not working even for one role, but remember if for negative selection you want AND and not OR for multiple roles.

[FlorianA]

23 hours ago, adrian said:

Working for me - what's your code?

For one role I've tried these four cases, none of them filtered out any user with role "foo":

!roles=foo
roles!=foo
!roles.name=foo
roles.name!=foo

 

[adrian]

@FlorianA - the roles!=foo works for me

What version of PW are you running? I wonder if something was fixed in dev (assuming you are running master).

[Christophe]

Hi @FlorianA, 

Could you post more details related to your piece of code?

I have the impression that it's a little (missing) detail that's making it not working.

Edited February 25, 2018 by Christophe

[adrian]

To avoid anything from your template file that might be contributing, can you try this in the Tracy Console panel:

d(users('roles!=foo, roles!=bar')->each("name"));

 

[FlorianA]

21 hours ago, adrian said:

To avoid anything from your template file that might be contributing, can you try this in the Tracy Console panel:

Tracy Console? ... <google> ... Tracy Debugger ... Wow! What a wonderful tool! I should have discoverd that earlier. I think it would deserve a place on https://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/ 

Anyway, my problem persists even when trying the command above. My PW version is 3.0.61

[adrian]

Glad you made friends with Tracy

> My PW version is 3.0.61

That might be the problem. I would definitely recommend upgrading to the latest dev version. Many of us are using it on production sites and it will likely become 3.1 stable this week or next.

[FlorianA]

It does work with dev version 3.0.93    Thanks a lot for your assistance, @adrian