Documentation please: Exclude category

[mhalomari]

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- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [x] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

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Any log messages given by the failure

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Expected/desired behavior

To exclude a set/category of sources from search

OS and Version?

Windows 10.

azd version?

azd version 1.1.0

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I would love to use the "Exclude category" option but can't find it mentioned in the documentation. My data includes PDF and HTML files, so let's say I want to ask a question and tell the chatbot to search in PDFs only (or files with a specific predefined category), how can I use the "Exclude category" functionality?
Your time and efforts to help are highly appreciated.

regards
Mo

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[krumkrum]

I use something like this.

filter = "category ne '{}'".format(exclude_category.replace("'", "''")) if exclude_category else None

example
"category ne 'Configuring_the_Server' and category ne 'Features' and category ne 'Casino_Games' and category ne 'Administration_Panel' and category ne 'Affiliate_program'"

[mhalomari]

Thank you very much @krumkrum

[axemanks]

I've gone into the Azure portal, to blob storage and added index tags to my files, as M$ docs said categorys will be generated by index tags, can we use those tags to exclude? I see in the gtpkb fields category, sourcepage, and sourcefile are filterable, so in theory we should be able to filter by category, sourcepage or sourcefile right? It hasn't seemed to work for me yet, but i'm probably missing something. Would love a bit more clarification on how it works.

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[pamelafox]

The ingestion guide discusses categories now, and there's an Include category feature, so I think we can close this:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo/blob/main/docs/data_ingestion.md#enhancing-search-functionality-with-data-categorization