[digiKam-users] Advanced search and hierarchical tags

[Olivier Croquette]

On 28.02.21 12:37, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> The behavior is correct if the "Events" tag is not assigned to a image.
> In the advanced search you have to reverse the search, you can open the
> "Options >>" at the top of the window, there you select "None of these
> conditions are met".

Thanks for quick feedback Maik. This just negates everything, but that 
doesn't allow me to use "Events" to match any tag that is underneath.

To rephrase in one sentence, my goal is to find items that have (or not) 
any tag underneath a given parent tag, without the parent tag being set 
explicitly on the said items.

Let's have another example, if I have the tags:

Car > Tesla > Model S

Car > Renault > Zoe

Car > Unknown

And I search for items tagged with "Car", I want to find item items 
tagged with "Model S", "Zoe" and "Unknown" even if they are not tagged 
explicitly with "Car".

I understand that an "explicit" matching strategy might be wanted in 
some cases, but the "implicit" is just as useful. Can Digikam do that?

Olivier