Smart Album based on multiple keywords

Lloyd Roseblade

• December 07, 2019 14:13

I don't know why I've got this stupid forum name, but you can refer to me as Tidal if it helps.

So I've tried to create a smart album called 'Scapes' which should include any images that contain either/any of the following keywords: landscape, seascape, nightscape, cityscape.

When I set the smart filter Search Criteria to Keyword 'contains' and specify all of those keywords (delimited by commas) it doesn't work for an image that has the keywords 'landscape, tower, newbury', but it does work if I reduce the keywords to just 'landscape'. This would be the behaviour I would expect if the keywords filter was set to 'BF0040:4ugp914c]equals4ugp914c]'

What am I doing wrong here?

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • December 07, 2019 14:31

  NNN636799489339380978 wrote:
  I don't know why I've got this stupid forum name, but you can refer to me as Tidal if it helps.

  
  Tidal,
  Logon to your account at https://www.captureone.com and edit your profile. There is a field for your forum name.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • December 07, 2019 14:35

  NNN636799489339380978 wrote:
  When I set the smart filter Search Criteria to Keyword 'contains' and specify all of those keywords (delimited by commas) it doesn't work for an image that has the keywords 'landscape, tower, newbury', but it does work if I reduce the keywords to just 'landscape'. This would be the behaviour I would expect if the keywords filter was set to 'BF0040:22puwfps]equals22puwfps]'

  
  When you set search criteria for Keywords, the default option is 'contain'. Now watch this: it does not work.
  
  WHAT?
  
  No, set it to another value and then back to 'contain'. Then it works. I suspect this bug is hunting you. Give it a try.

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  Lloyd Roseblade

  • December 07, 2019 15:06

  Thanks Paul - that didn't work though for me.
  
  It looks like the only way is to specify each keyword as it's ownBF0040:2o7ywi0h] 'contains', or BF0040:2o7ywi0h]'equals'2o7ywi0h] keyword search criteria which is pretty inefficient and might cause complications with other filter options I want to add later.
  
  I think 'contains' means it will check for a substring within a string of characters - e.g. Keywords2o7ywi0h] BF0040:2o7ywi0h]'contains'2o7ywi0h] dog would include images with dog, hotdog, watchdog - which is a much less common use case I'd have thought.
  
  What's needed is a criteria called BF0040:2o7ywi0h]'contains words'2o7ywi0h]
  
  For now I'm doing it the messy (imo at least) way

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  SFA

  • December 07, 2019 18:18

  You need separate keyword lines since it looks for the string entered. Indeed it is interactive (at least it is on my PC) and will seek out partial matches. It is also case sensitive.
  
  HOWEVER ...
  
  You can, within the definition, turn individual search lines off if required for a special purpose.
  
  More likely would be a somewhat more generic approach whereby you Smart Album is a little less specific and you simply use the filters tool as required.
  
  So maybe the useful smart album would be "landscape" and then filter for "newbury" or "tower" or both using the filter tool facilities in the Library tab is probably a useful place to start. (Of course you can put the tool anywhere you like - multiple locations if that suits you.)
  
  
  My personal opinion is that pinning down very specific smart albums, at least in an archival sense, has less real benefit than one might imagine.
  
  
  Grant

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