Answers.Body: <p>This error is displayed when you don't have any groups OR tags available on your site.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Check if you see any groups listed in <code>civicrm/group?reset=1</code>.</li>
  <li>Similarly, check if you have at least one tag available in <code>civicrm/tag?reset=1</code>.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>In your case, I think you don't have any tags created on your site. As a hacky workaround - you can create a dummy tag from <code>Contacts -&gt; New Tag</code> menu in order to get rid of the error on the search screen.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Sounds like you need to create a Group with 'everyone' and another Group with 'Members' and then use the Include/Exclude Group option to get what you are wanting.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Using Civi linked to joomla web to manage our membership and various mailing lists.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to use a custom search function to find, for example, individuals who are not members, or individuals who are not in our 'newsletter' contact group. Contacts who are not in a give contact group.</p>
  
  <p>I imagine the Custom Search Include/Exclude function would be best for this but when I select this from the Custom Search List I get an error message 'At least one Group and Tag must be present for Custom Group / Tag search.'</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone advise what this means and how I might conduct such a search?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks</p>
  
Tags: <joomla><groups><custom-search>
Title: Custom Search Include/Exclude error message
ThreadText: # Custom Search Include/Exclude error message
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-18)
  
  Using Civi linked to joomla web to manage our membership and various mailing lists.
  
  I would like to be able to use a custom search function to find, for example, individuals who are not members, or individuals who are not in our 'newsletter' contact group. Contacts who are not in a give contact group.
  
  I imagine the Custom Search Include/Exclude function would be best for this but when I select this from the Custom Search List I get an error message 'At least one Group and Tag must be present for Custom Group / Tag search.'
  
  Can anyone advise what this means and how I might conduct such a search?
  
  Many thanks
  
  **Tags:** joomla, groups, custom-search
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-19. Score: 2
  
  This error is displayed when you don't have any groups OR tags available on your site.
  
  * Check if you see any groups listed in `civicrm/group?reset=1`.
  * Similarly, check if you have at least one tag available in `civicrm/tag?reset=1`.
  
  In your case, I think you don't have any tags created on your site. As a hacky workaround - you can create a dummy tag from `Contacts -> New Tag` menu in order to get rid of the error on the search screen.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-05-19. Score: 1
  
  Sounds like you need to create a Group with 'everyone' and another Group with 'Members' and then use the Include/Exclude Group option to get what you are wanting.
  
  
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