Currently the only Filter logic operators for multi-select fields are contains all and contains any.
Similarly with single-select fields, there is no logic operator you simply check the ones you want to include and leave unchecked the ones you don’t.
This creates an issue when the list of possible values for that field grows but you still only want to exclude only certain values because someone needs to remember to add those new possible values to the filter.
IDEAL STATE
Ideally we’d be able to Filter projects where field x is not equal to y or multi-select field a does not contain b.
Thanks for adding this ideal state ask Cosmo! We’re running into something similar in Asana. At our university, we have multi-semester projects and use a custom field to indicate all semesters that a project is worked on. Some of our projects last one semester while others last multiple semesters. I’m responsible for portfolio management and workload for my team and we need an easy way to show future project work for projects that span semesters and a great way to see this is by using the list view to group by semesters. We’d love for past semesters to NOT show up…but there doesn’t seem to be a way to make this happen with the options right now. For example:
Can’t you do this by Grouping by your multiselect custom field, then filtering out the ones you don’t want to see? Here’s an example, but instead of Semester multiselect I have a Socials one:
Yep! looks like they’ve added that option since I originally posted this back in Apr 2025
The other limitation I still run up against though is the that all the options are contains/doesn’t contain any/all where i need contains/doesn’t contain ONLY.
Using your example above, how would you find projects that are ONLY Twitter?
@cosmo this has already been added to one of the appropriate team’s backlog I own! @lpb is likely to thank for that. While it’s considered, I don’t yet have a timeline for you.
@Garrett_Knoll amazing! let me know if we can ever chat directly about some other feature requests I’ve run into through my work at a very large tech company
PS, i’m a BIG fan of the Noun Project—so thanks for that as well!
