[Digikam-users] filtering/disbale collection

[René Fritz]

Am So, 29. Dezember 2013, 11:36:30 schrieb Anders Lund:
> On Søndag den 29. december 2013 11:26:18, René Fritz wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2013, 10:53:31 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > > 2013/12/26 René Fritz <rene at colorcube.de>:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I have 3 collections in Digikam 3.4.0. I want to filter by date or
> > > > something else but only with one or two collections.
> > > > 
> > > > In setup I can delete a collection but I fear to do that because I
> > > > don't
> > > > know what it does. Is all meta data lost then?
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway I'm missing a possibility to select the collections I want to
> > > > query.
> > > > 
> > > > (By the way, the search module is not what I want)
> > > 
> > > To query for searching. You can do it as you want. Just select the
> > > right dirs by pop-up menu.
> > 
> > Thanks Gilles
> > 
> > But that's exactly what I don't want.
> > 
> > I have 3 collections and I want to use digikam with only one of them. I
> > guess this is currently not possible?!
> 
> You could use the advanced search to achieve such a filtering

Hi Anders

Nobody seems to understand me :-)

I can do that with advanced search but then I can't use anything else but the 
filter tab.

If I'm able to activate one collection I can use whatever selection/filtering I 
want. For example by date by geo coordinates etc. That can't be done with 
advanced search, right?

So it is currently not possible. Am I right?

What is needed to provide such a functionality?
My guess is:

- switches to en-/disable a collection
  (maybe in settings or in the album tab?)

- respect the active collections in all queries
 (I guess there is a relation in the DB to collections, so that should be 
possible) 

What do you think?

Maybe the functionality is already there with the collections on removable 
media and all what is needed are the switches?

René