<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp3e919939yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Right-click in the window on the right side of the screen listing tags (Captions/Tags). That will bring up a menu with a number of entries; scroll to the last entry (Toggle Auto). This brings up a sub-menu that allows you to select "Parents". Once you do so clicking any tag will automatically select all its parent tags.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp3e919939signature">Ronald Orenstein<br>1825 Shady Creek Court<br>Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2<br>Canada<br>ronorenstein.blogspot.com<br>ronorensteinwriter.blogspot.com</div></div>
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On Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 03:14:33 p.m. EST, Ian McCarthy <idm.kde@cronkshaw.com> wrote:
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<div class="ydp9ff8d6bfyiv7666615913moz-cite-prefix">Well I'm glad you have found it,
because I have singularly failed to find it, even after resorting
to searching the manual. Please give me a bit more of a clue.</div>
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<div class="ydp9ff8d6bfyiv7666615913moz-cite-prefix">Cheers IAn MAc</div>
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<div> On Friday, November 7, 2025 at 12:26:07 p.m. EST,
Sebastian Beer <a shape="rect" href="mailto:sebastian.beer66@icloud.com" class="ydp9ff8d6bfyiv7666615913moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><sebastian.beer66@icloud.com></a> wrote: </div>
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<div>There exists a switch in Digicam to enable this
behavior.
<div>Try a right click on the tag tree. I do not
remember exactly…</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 07.11.2025 um 18:13
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<div dir="ltr">I use a nested series of
heirarchical tags, often four or five
layers deep. Is it possible to instruct
DigiKam so that if I tag the deepest layer
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zoological classification tag set for
wildlife photographs. For a photograph of
a gull, the heirarchy looks like this:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Animals</div>
<div dir="ltr">-Birds</div>
<div dir="ltr">--Non-passerines</div>
<div dir="ltr">---Charadriiformes</div>
<div dir="ltr">----Laridae</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Currently I have to tag each
of these separately even though they are
arranged as a heirarchy in my tag list.
Ideally I would like to be able to check
"Larinae" and have all of the parent tags
added automatically (one tick instead of
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