Op 24-09-11 19:10, David Vincent-Jones schreef:
> I find this somewhat strange and unintuitive:
I agree that sometimes more thinking and trial and error is involved
than I wished.
> I can search for the tag 'George' on the left side but am unable to
> filter for the tag 'George' on the right side.
>
> If filters are really only effective over the film-roll the value of the
> data-base is greatly diminished.
The upside is the possibillity to limit to a subsection of your
collection, and this subsection can include all your photo´s if you make
one root album.
btw you know of the menu entry ¨View->include album subtree¨ and
¨View->include tag subtree¨
> I now need to do an advanced search to
> find 'George and Paris'.
Not neccesarilly. If the are in the same collection. In the filters tab
is an icon to select ¨and¨ or ¨or¨ search.
Rinus
> I thought that I remembered earlier versions where tags really worked
> over the entire collection.
>
> David
>
> On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 18:29 +0200, sleepless wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> According my own experience your observation is right. There are several
>> workarounds.
>> If you make all your collections, subalbums of one master album, you can
>> filter on your masteralbum which contains all of your photo´s.
>> If you make all your tags subtags of one mastertag, and you want to
>> filter on tags, select in leftpane your mastertag and filter in
>> rightpane on all tagged photo´s.
>> If you give all your pictures a certain tag such as ¨myfoto¨ select
>> ¨myphoto¨ tag in leftpane´s tag tab, and filter in right pane on all of
>> your photo´s.
>> If you use ¨search¨ tab in left pane, it will search on all photos in
>> the db, not just one collection.
>> If you find another maybe better one, please let me know.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Rinus
>> Op 24-09-11 17:38, davidvj schreef:
>>> I was under the impression that the filters operated over the entire
>>> collection but with the current version I only appear to be able to filter
>>> over the current folder ... must be something that I am missing!!
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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