[digiKam-users] Multiple simultaneous keyword entry

[Northern Colorado Event Photograph]

I have digiKam 6.0.0 installed on a Dell Latitude E6520 with 64 bit Win 7 Pro SP 1, i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA 4200M graphics adapter.

Is there any way to enter multiple key words simultaneously?

For example, I may have several hundred images from a photo shoot and each image might need up to 6 (rarely more) key words unique to a single image.

So several hundred images x up to 6 key words per image is a very significant time consumer when entered one key word at a time.

The ability to enter multiple key words with a separator between them and have digiKam recognize each keyword individually would significantly reduce the workload.

For example:

Enter:

keyword1, keyword2, keyword3 (etc. with the commas between them)

and have digikam accept the keywords as:

keyword1
keyword2
keyword3
etc.

I have searched the digiKam documentation and searched online but I have not found anything that I can determine is relevant.  All the documentation I have found talks about entering "tags," and the descriptions imply entering the tags one at a time.

I tried my scheme above (multiple words separated by a comma) but the digiKam entry was just that:  multiple words separated by commas, not individual keywords.

So is there something I have missed?

Le 26/07/2019 à 23:39, Northern Colorado Event Photograph a écrit :
> I have digiKam 6.0.0 installed on a Dell Latitude E6520 with 64 bit Win
> 7 Pro SP 1, i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA 4200M graphics adapter.
>
> Is there any way to enter multiple key words simultaneously?

do you mean as command line??

because I do this routinely in digikam. Select t images (or one of them
on the beginning, then select all the tags that need to be applied. The
apply or clic on the thumbnails desktop.

if you did for only one image, select all of them, then use the small
icon on the right side to show all the already used (looks like an
infinity symbol).

If the images are not in the same album, you have to find a way to
select them (there are many)

jdd


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[AlanH]

If, perhaps, you meant importing a hierarchal list, as you can for Lightroom and iMatch, the only way I found after a lot of Googling is this from another digikam-user…

 

For a “dummy” file/photo, use exiv2 or exiftool to write the (very big) list into the metadata of the file/photo. Import the file into digiKam and it will create the list for use by other photos. Haven’t tried this myself since I’m having other issues that need to resolved first. Good luck.

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

 

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Le 26/07/2019 à 23:39, Northern Colorado Event Photograph a écrit :
> I have digiKam 6.0.0 installed on a Dell Latitude E6520 with 64 bit Win
> 7 Pro SP 1, i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA 4200M graphics adapter.
>
> Is there any way to enter multiple key words simultaneously?

do you mean as command line??

because I do this routinely in digikam. Select t images (or one of them
on the beginning, then select all the tags that need to be applied. The
apply or clic on the thumbnails desktop.

if you did for only one image, select all of them, then use the small
icon on the right side to show all the already used (looks like an
infinity symbol).

If the images are not in the same album, you have to find a way to
select them (there are many)

jdd


--
http://dodin.org