Creating smart album from AppleScript: syntax reference?

Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)

• 2. August 2021 10:51
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Hello.

Looking at some samples posted on this forum time ago I was able to use AppleScript to create smart albums that filter by year and date, that is using this chunk of XML as the smart album rules:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<MatchOperator Kind="AND">
    <Condition Enabled="YES"> 
        <Key>_date_yearMonth</Key>
        <Operator>0</Operator>
        <Criterion>2021-07</Criterion>
    </Condition>
</MatchOperator>

Now I wold like to create smart album that filter by keyword; I guessed something like that:

    <Condition Enabled="YES">
        <Key>_keywords</Key>
        <Operator>0</Operator> 
        <Criterion>foo bar</Criterion>
    </Condition>

but it doesn't work. Is there a syntax reference for all the kinds of rules one could implement?

Thanks.

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  Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)

  • 2. August 2021 11:08

  Ok... looking at the database dump I was able to guess the proper key, it's IB_S_CONTENT_KEYWORDS.

  Nevertheless: is there a syntax reference?

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  Quentin Black

  • 2. August 2021 12:01

  I've not ever found one.  I just create a smart album in the UI with the sort of criteria I'm interested in creating in code and examine the result with something like this:

  use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
  use scripting additions
  
  tell application "Capture One 20"
  	tell current document
  		set aSmartAlbum to some collection whose name is "<test album name>"
  		log rules of aSmartAlbum as text
  	end tell
  end tell

  <test album  name> will be the name of the smart album you created in the UI.

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  Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)

  • 3. August 2021 12:26

  Thanks for the tip, it makes sense and it is faster than dumping the database and inspecting it.

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