Formulas

[cthomas]

I have three categorizes that that I need to have category formulas in but I keep getting an error. See image for Error. The next image shows what my categories are based on.

Apart from the Universal Catalog I have a category "Workflow"
below that I have several child categories with formulas.
Another top level category is "Fully classified" - an image is assigned to this category when I am done categorizing it.
In the one-click sidebar I have configured a button for "Fully classified" in the Assign-section.

Back to the workflow categories and their formulas -

"Not in the Universal Catalog" : "@All" NOT "Fully Classified" NOT "Universal Catalog"

"Not in the Universal Catalog" : "@All" NOT "Fully Classified" NOT "Universal Catalog"

"Not categorized" : "@All" NOT "Fully Classified"

Now I open the "Not categorized" category and sort by date. I select the first image, press Ctrl-Alt-A to open the assignment window.
I click all the categories that apply to the image and press the short-cut button in the one-click sidebar. The image gets assigned to "Full categorized" and thereby disappears from the "Not categorized" view. The next image gets its turn.

[Mario]

This is a valid category formula:

"@All" NOT "Fully Classified" NOT "Universal Catalog"

This is not:

"Not in the Universal Catalog" : "@All" NOT "Fully Classified" NOT "Universal Catalog"

Error in red. I don't know where you got the idea with the name and the : in front, but that's not part of the category syntax.

What you probably want is:

1. Create a new category and name it "Not in the Universal Catalog"
2. Open the properties for this category and enter the formula

"@All" NOT "Fully Classified" NOT "Universal Catalog"

This will work.
Same for your other categories.