# Visual Builder "exclude" syntax?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder-exclude-syntax/190072>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder-exclude-syntax/190072 "2019-07-11T16:37:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![pneubauer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@pneubauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pneubauer)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder-exclude-syntax/190072/1 "2019-07-11T16:37:38Z")

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In the Visual Builder, I've added a "count" aggregation metric. What's the syntax for the "include" and "exclude" fields? I can type a single value into the "exclude" field, and it works as expected. But, I need a list of multiple terms to exclude. Wildcards don't work.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/1/d106709ccabc2c18f8cca07db96ea4c5987f4a3f.png)

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder-exclude-syntax/190072/2 "2019-07-12T20:02:26Z")

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Ue the include/exclude for field values,

and use a pipe `|` to delimit multiple options

e.g.:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/f/ff73dd749254cd146b1bd331716268787886d6b5.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder-exclude-syntax/190072/3 "2019-08-09T20:02:45Z")

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