IBM® Marketing Operations objects (plans, programs and projects) are created from templates.
Templates have definitions of attributes, for example, brochure_type. Project instances created from the same template can have different values for their attributes. For example, TS001 might have
Tri-fold as its brochure type, and TS002 might have
Bi-fold.
In a typical IBM® Marketing Operations installation, there are multiple project templates, and a particular attribute might be present in some templates and absent in others.
The operator, Not In, returns all instances of objects (for example, projects) that do not have the value of the attribute as given in the search, or if the object does not have the attribute itself. To illustrate, if you search for
all Fruits that do not have black colored seeds, this search returns fruits that do not have black colored seeds
AND fruits that are seedless, since seedless fruits do not have black colored seeds.