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Lightroom: Exact text match in smart collections and filters, including matching spaces
Is there really no way to search metadata for a term that has spaces in it? e.g. "brown hair".
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john_verne
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: spaces in metadata.
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alan_harper
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Being able to click on a multiword keyword (in Keyword List or Metadata panel) to get an exact match, + being able to set up Smart Collection with "Keywords contains Words", is fine for me.
All I want keywords to do are to show me all the photos that meet the criteria I need. If there are a few others (for instance images keyed "hair brown" as well as "brown hair"), it doesn't bother me.
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rob_cole_2221866
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But in the UI, there needs to be the concept of delimiter if its to support multiple terms in a single search box.
The solution could be a "no delimiters" checkbox - when checked it means search for entered text verbatim. Another common solution is to employ quote marks, but that has the problem that quote marks can be a legal metadata character, so then you have to define an escape character. One could also have a "Contains Verbatim If Substring", and a "Contains Verbatim If Whole"..., but that would just add to the confusion... ;-}
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rob_cole_2221866
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UPDATE: AnyFilter also solves this problem
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rob_cole_2221866
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Consider converting this to a feature request.
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John_R_Ellis
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It sounds like you may have used the criterion:
Collection contains little planets
That will match any collection that contains "little" or "planets". If instead you used:
Collection contains words little planets
that will match only collections that contain the words "little" and "planets". That's still not exact match, e.g. it would also match a collection "Planets that are very little", but it would reduce the number of accidental matches quite a bit.
But I agree wholeheartedly that LR has botched the search features by omitting exact match. Don't know what the product developers were thinking...
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alyssa_white
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When using Lightroom, I have tagged my photos with keywords, some of which contain spaces. However, I don't seem to be able to create an accurate smart collection using these keywords. For example, I have friends "John Adam", "Adam Peters" and "John Smith". When I try to create a smart set for "John Adam", I also get all the photos that have both "Adam Peters" and "John Smith" in them. I seem to get either too many photos or none, depending on what options I choose for the "contains" setting. Any ideas on how I can make smart collections work using keywords with spaces?
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