Puzzled with filters in routes.yaml

Developer help Routing
#1

Hi.
In the Ghost tutorial Creating content hubs with Ghost, there is a full guide of the parameters for the filter property and inside this guide, these two lines are puzzling me:

filter: tag:x,tag:y # can have either "x" or "y" tags (, = OR)

filter: tag:[x,y,z] # must have either "x", "y", or "z" tags ([] = IN)

For the life of me, I cannot fathom the difference between “can have either” and “must have either”. Furthermore, both filters are displaying a different set of posts when used in my channel definition in routes.yaml, but that’s for another forum topic, and maybe a pharmacy :smile:
Is there a kind soul out there that could help me understand the difference between those two filter options, OR and IN?

Cheers.

#2

From the example, OR and IN should behave the same. The main difference is OR can be used for multiple things (e.g. tag:x,author:jdoe), while IN only operates on the one thing (e.g. only tags, or only authors).

You should be getting the same result set when using tag:x,tag:y and tag:[x,y] :slight_smile:

#3

Thank you for your time and effort @vikaspotluri123