searching thru tag hierarchy

[Luca Ferrari]

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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[Peter Albrecht]

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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[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 <[hidden email]> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Digikam-users mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>>
> _______________________________________________
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> [hidden email]
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