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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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remco_douma
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john_long_7497527
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5 years ago
LR needs facility to match "exactly" the keywords being searched for. Often use two words like small pearl bordered when there is also a different species as pearly bordered. searching doesn't allow them to be separated and brings up both lots. This is a fault in my book and need to be bale to search for two words with spaces in between.
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Rikk
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trevor123456
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4 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled When creating a Smart Collection inside a Collection Set, the Smart Collection sh....I switched to Lightroom from Aperture - reluctantly to say the least.
Aperture had the ability to limit Smart Albums to filtering a specific album. This rule gave a drop down list of all the available Albums. Pretty simple and straightforward. And best of all, IT WORKED! Heck, even the new Photos app gets this (a screenshot of it is attached).
In Lightroom, in theory, you can limit a Smart Collection to a specific Collection or Collection Set, but it doesn't seem to work constantly.
PLEASE allow Smart Collections to filter via Collection Set.
PLEASE allow the "Collection" filter in the Smart Collection set to be set to "is" (as seen in the attached Photos.app screenshot). If its not an exact match, then the Collection/Collection Set doesn't get included. Including text in quotes does not perform the expected operation.
It shouldn't have to be a trial and error operation to do something which could be SO simple.
This makes Smart Collections a complete pain in the bum to use on Lightroom.
It would be amazing if Lightroom management could know that even the small things matter.
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Lightroom: Smart collections missing criterion for "Collection Set".
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anders_sorensen_6378269
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neil_tonge
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3 years ago
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duncan_moir
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2 years ago
I would suggest the addition of a keyword option of "Contains Only" is it only me or are there others who would find this useful
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duncan_moir
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2 years ago
Containing only the referenced key word and NO others.
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: I would suggest addition of a keyword option of "Contains Only" Is it only me ....
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duane_anderson_7555013
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2 years ago
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jim_robertson_7046865
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2 years ago
I suspect there is a simple solution for this, but as an example, if I have a key word "estate" and another one "real estate" and a third "MacKenzie King Estate". When I do a search/filter for "estate" I get all three whether I uses "contain"/"contain all"/"contain words".
Are there special characters I can use to select the images with the single word keyword "estate"??
Or am I stuck with getting them all or dreaming up a new set of one word keywords?
Thanks
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juliefindlow
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2 years ago
I'd like to be able to click on existing keywords/people to create a smart collection. This would simplify the smart collection creation process and avoid the problem I am currently encountering of my smart collection pulling in the wrong images. (I want a smart collection that pulls in John Smith, but it is also pulling in John Doe and Mary Smith -- all three people exist as keywords but Lightroom is treating first and last names as individual words instead of the first and last name of each person as an individual unit). It seems like I should be able to create a new smart collection and then just click from my keywords which ones I want to include.
And on a different note, keywords seem like an obvious search tool so why do I have to dig through an additional layer to find them when I am creating smart collections (i.e. you have to click on "Other Metadata" to find the keyword option)?
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dan_hartford
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2 years ago
Without re-reading this whole thread is to adulterate the keyword name for the pets to distinguish them from people. For example: "Molly(dog)", or "Molly-dog". then when using a Smart Collection or filter you can use "Molly-dog" when you want the pet and "Molly !dog" (Exclamation point in filter means "not") when you want the person.
For similar situations where I am not exporting the keywords in question I bastardize the keyword by adding an asterisk as the 2nd character. For example, I have a keyword for each shoot. So, for example, a shoot might have a keyword of "Shoot 2019-03 France & Belgium". But specific images would have a LOCATION keyword of either France or Belgium. So, when I search for "France" I get the whole shoot due to the shoot keyword when in fact some of those images are in Belgium. To get around this problem I changed the shoot keyword to "Shoot 2019-03 F*rance & B*elgium"
But, sure would be nice to allow filters and Smart Collections to:
a) support Quote marks to support multi-word keywords (e.g. "Mary Smith") where it would use the full text inside the quotes as one thing and not treat any spaces inside the quotes as delimiters,
b) Allow "the contained in" nomenclature they use in the Keywords Panel. For example "Red < Bird" meaning the keyword "Red" that is a child under keyword "Bird" or "Molly < Pets" meaning the keyword "Molly" that is a child of keyword "Pets"
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louis_sherwin
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rafael_rosa_9b4fyayxkr2rr
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a year ago
The keyword search filter could have a way of searching for the exact term, and the possibility of having several exact terms, eg "Rafael Rosa", "Edson Rosa" In that term it would only find the words bracketed with quotation marks. full term, so you could find more exact terms, not just from the names
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robert_somrak
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