# How to segment by stage = none
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 6, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545 "2016-09-06T06:14:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@yalcin](https://forum.mautic.org/u/yalcin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545/1 "2016-09-06T06:14:37Z")
My contacts are not assigned to a stage by default.
They get stages assigned either manually or through automation.
How do I segment contacts who have no stage set?
Segmenting filters available for stage is either:
- equals
- not equal
There’s surely gotta be better filters available for stages e.g.
- empty
- not empty
- including
- excluding
etc
**I’ve tried building a series of filters, such as:**
Stage not equal to aaaa
AND
Stage not equal to bbbb
AND
Stage not equal to cccc
AND
Stage not equal to dddd
In attempt to leave behind contacts who don’t have a stage value set.
**However this returns 0 contacts.**
**How can I return all my contacts who don’t have a stage value set?**
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### Author:  [@yalcin](https://forum.mautic.org/u/yalcin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545/2 "2016-09-06T06:14:37Z")
My contacts are not assigned to a stage by default.
They get stages assigned either manually or through automation.
How do I segment contacts who have no stage set?
Segmenting filters available for stage is either:
- equals
- not equal
There’s surely gotta be better filters available for stages e.g.
- empty
- not empty
- including
- excluding
etc
I’ve tried building a series of filters, such as:
Stage not equal to aaaa
AND
Stage not equal to bbbb
AND
Stage not equal to cccc
AND
Stage not equal to dddd
In attempt to leave behind contacts who don’t have a stage value set.
However this returns 0 contacts.
How can I return all my contacts who don’t have a stage value set?
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### Author:  [@yalcin](https://forum.mautic.org/u/yalcin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545/3 "2016-09-06T22:40:03Z")
@MxyzptlkFishStix @mqueme
Done.
[https://github.com/mautic/mautic/issues/2485](https://github.com/mautic/mautic/issues/2485)
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@yalcin](https://forum.mautic.org/u/yalcin)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-segment-by-stage-none/5545/4 "2016-09-06T23:10:22Z")
I have a local dev installation, just out of curiosity and play with the source code. It looks like ListModel.php (2.1.1) line 389 is where the code needs to be changed. However I don’t know if that is the only required change or if it will break something else. Still learning…