[Digikam-users] searching thru tag hierarchy

[Luca Ferrari]

Thanks for the detailed reply.
I'm currently using digikam 3.4, so I'm a bit late on upgrade. I will
also switch to 4.0 as soon as possible.

Luca

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Peter Albrecht <peter at crazymonkeys.de> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> Task 1:
>
> On the right side, there is a tab called "Filters", which
> filters the current pictures in the middle view (coming from
> an album, tag selection, advanced search, ...). In this view
> on the right, you can select more than one tag:
> E.g. "cat" and "dog"
> Below the Tag-Tree view, there is a little screw driver.
> Clicking this one, you can change the logical tag operation
> from "OR" to "AND".
> So the images, shown in the middle will be filtered to
> those, having "cat" and "dog" tag assigned.
>
> Of course, you have to fill the middle area with images in
> the first place. If you have digiKam 4.x.0 (introduced
> multiple tag selection) you could use the "Tags" tab on the
> left side and select your tags "cat" and "dog". This will
> bring up an OR selection of your images, which you can
> filter with the method explained above.
>
>
> To do this in "Advanced Search":
>  - Open the "Advanced Search" dialog
>  - under "Tags": "Return pictures with tag" select your
>    first tag: e.g. "dogs"
>  - click the button "Add Search Group"
>    -> this brings up new controls and input field at the
>       buttom of the dialog
>  - look for an underlined "OR" and click it, to switch it
>    to "AND"
>  - below this "AND"
>  - under "Tags": "Return pictures with tag" select your
>    second tag: e.g. "cat"
>  - start your search
>
> This will bring up pictures with cats AND dogs.
> (You can add more than one search group.)
> "Advanced Search Groups" might look a bit complicated, but
> it is very generic and therefor very powerful! :)
> (Kind of regular expression for images ;)
>
>
> Task 2:
>
> Please make sure, you have selected in the main menu:
>   View -> Include Tag Sub-Tree
>
>
> Regards,
>         Peter
>
> On 11.09.2014 15:26, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> Ho all,
>> I cannof find a solution in the documentation: I've  alot of tags and
>> a lot of albums. I cannot do the following two things:
>> 1) I would like to click more tags at once in the tag panel to filter
>> only the images that have all the tags (and condition, not or);
>> 2) I would be able to click on the root tag of an hierarchy and see
>> all the images that have any of the tag under such hierarchy.
>>
>> Apparently even advanced search can solve the above two. Any suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
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