[Digikam-users] feature-request: optional view of children of tag

[Tom Albers]

Op maandag 31 oktober 2005 08:28, schreef Harald Finster:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your kind reply, Tom!
>
> Tom Albers wrote:
> > This is possible, just expand the left 'tag' view, make child tags,
> > assign images and click on the mother tag to view the those pictures,
> > including pictures with child tags.
>
> yes, that's clear (with versin > 0.8)
>
> Maybe, my example was bad. I'll try an other one to make the point clear.
>
> Assume, you have the following tag-structure with locations as
> parents of child-tags
>
> 'location-tags-tree'
> --------------------
>
> Germany
>
>     Aachen
>        Aachen-Cathedral
>        Aachen-Cityhall
>
>     Cologne
>        Cologne-Cathedral
>        Cologne-Railway-Station
>
> France
>
>     Paris
>
>        Tour-Eiffel
>        Notre-Dame-Cathedral
>
>
> now, I would like to use a second structure to categorize my objects:
>
> 'category-tags-tree'
> --------------------
>
> buildings
>
>        churches
>
>        railway-stations
>
>        city-halls
>
>
> Instead of tagging individual images, I would like to assign the tags
> defined in the 'location-tags-tree' to the tags in the
> 'category-tags-tree'.
>
> In this example:
>
> buildings
>
>        churches          <- Aachen-Cathedral, Cologne-Cathedral
>
>        railway-stations  <- Cologne-Railway-Station
>
>        city-halls        <- Aachen-Cityhall
>
>
>
> So, clicking on the mother tag 'Aachen' will show all images
> of 'Aachen-Cathedral and 'Aachen-Cityhall' (this does already
> work).
> In addition clicking on 'churches' would show all
> images of Aachen-Cathedral and Cologne-Cathedral
>
> The point is, that the organizasion of tags is not resticted to
> a tree-structure.

Hi Harald, 

You can assign multiple tags to each image, and then you can make above query 
by using the advanced search. This search can be saved and accessed as a 
normal tag-folder.

Tom