Filter file search by MONTH (irrespective of year)
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A significant part of my time is spent searching amongst the many thousands of images of cultivated flowers in my database for particular species that are blooming in a specified MONTH.
Currently I have to laboriously set up individual filters for the desired month for each of a range of years.
I need to be able to search by MONTH for ANY NOMINATED YEAR, or a RANGE of YEARS for a specified MONTH.
Is this feature possible in the current C1 - 22 version that I'm using?
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Searching by month in a range of years is required for my work-flow reporting every few weeks - but each session can occupy hours of my time. (current image count in excess of 18,000)
Happy to be contacted (YES) via my profile email address. Cheers... Rob
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Was there an answer to this question as I need to do exactly the same searches.
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You cannot search across multiple sessions at one time.
With AppleScript you can code a custom search in a catalog. I did a little test. It isn't fast but it can be done.
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I have a single catalogue with some 60000 images. I am now plodding along creating multiple smart albums which can work, but what an unnecessarily laborious approach!
Thanks for the swift reaction.
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I'll keep playing with my script. If you use a built-in filter for multiple years, the script might be able to further filter by month across those years. I think in the filters tool you can select the same month in multiple years. That should be easy to test and would certainly be the fastest way to get to your desired results if you are only selecting a few years. Setting up that filter for every year in an entire catalog would take longer.
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I am setting up a smart filter for each of the twelve months in one year, then I will save it as a preset and then create a new smart filter for each month separately using the initial preset and simply changing the month variable each time. Tedious, but I should get there in a couple of hours hopefully.
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OK. I wrote an AppleScript that will ask for start / end years and month, then create a smart album for that month in each of those years. This is rudimentary as it doesn't check that start year is before or equal to end year.
https://github.com/walterrowe/capture-one-scripts/tree/master/search-by-month
Credit to Emory Dunn for an example script that demonstrates how to create a smart album from AppleScript.
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