Shopify Flow Condition Is Evaluating To True When False

[AlewinePottery]

I've been working on a flow to automate tagging for collections and am having a frustrating problem where one of the conditions is evaluating to true when it's clearly not. Support won't offer any help. The issue goes like this: I'm creating a flow for our merch, so I've selected that when inventory changes, see if the title includes "Hat", and if so, add a "merch" tag. We have a different product that has a color, "That's My Jam" and it's being tagged merch because "That's" contains "Hat". I don't know how to search for a specific phrase, so I've worked on a solution. I've set up another condition to check that the title does NOT include "That's"...but it's still evaluating as true. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried breaking up the conditions, thinking that maybe I'm not intended to have them in a list. I've also tried swapping the trigger to when a new product is added. All result in the same issue. The first condition shows as true: That's includes hat. Then for some reason, the second condition also shows true: That's My Jam does NOT include That's...which it obviously does.

[Bob_ · Accepted solution]

Try adding a space after hat for the search condition, Not sure it'll work with flow but works with other software, if it's looking for "hat " then "that's" shouldn't trigger it as the hat in that is followed by a '

Won't work for titles ending in hat so another condition looking for " hat" for those may work.

[Bob_ · Accepted solution]

Try adding a space after hat for the search condition, Not sure it'll work with flow but works with other software, if it's looking for "hat " then "that's" shouldn't trigger it as the hat in that is followed by a '

Won't work for titles ending in hat so another condition looking for " hat" for those may work.

[AlewinePottery]

Still going to try to see what I was doing wrong (or other, better ways to accomplish the goal), but this worked for now. Thank you!

[paul_n · Accepted solution]

One of your conditions is likely messed up (likely the second). For us to help you need to post screenshots of what is in those conditions. 

That said, as you've found, string matching is tricky. Might it make sense to use product categories, types, or tags instead? 

[AlewinePottery]

I'm going to try using product categories instead of titles. I think that'll work better.