[digiKam-users] How to narrow search based on tags

[Hubert Zillner]

Hi Tom,

 

writing blanc-separated words into the search field (e.g. left bar) you can get an Boolean AND of all tags (people ..),  name of album and  captions (title, description). I think this is a quite powerful function to minimize the result. 
Further there is an extended search to mix “all” possible questions. Date or Timeline at the left bar can also be used to filter effectively. 

 

Hubert

 

Von: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> Im Auftrag von trparks1 at gmail.com
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. April 2021 19:22
An: 'digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source' <digikam-users at kde.org>
Betreff: [digiKam-users] How to narrow search based on tags

 

Hi folks,

I am a new user trying to tackle a big project organizing personal and family photos totaling maybe 100K images.  I had thought I’d mostly organize by:  [Date], [Place/Event], [People] (and also maybe photographic quality star rating).  I started kicking the tires in Digikam and applied tags of Place and People in a sample directory that was already sorted by date, but ran into a speed bump when I tried to apply tag filters to narrow the selection.  The filter function (right tools bar) seems to apply Boolean OR as to what is left in the main display when multiple tags are selected and AND is not avaialbe.  I had envisaged being able to narrow searches based on these tags rather than expanding them.  E.g If I’m looking for shots of Lisa skiing, I don’t want all skiing shots plus all Lisa shots.  Is there something I’m missing about the Filters functionality or another way to get there?

 

As background, I’d like to ultimately write the tags or other sortable information in each image’s metadata so that sorting is possible independent of platform.  So another way of efficiently getting there (rather than tags) might be OK too.

 

Thanks,

Tom 

 

 

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