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Offline Jose Raposo

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Keywords Search syntax help
« on: October 14, 2022, 08:18:29 AM »
Hi everyone

Newbie question regarding searching using keywords in PM plus. I have a set of hierarchal keywords that I use to tag my photos. I will use the examples below:

Manuela's Family, Manuela
Manuela's Family, Isabel
Manuela's Family, Antonio

I would like to enter a search string that brings back only photos tagged with "Manuela" and not include photos that are tagged with the higher level keyword "Manuela's"

If I search using Keywords " Manuela " it will bring back photos tagged with all three examples.

Appreciate your help.

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Re: Keywords Search syntax help
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2022, 10:24:35 AM »
Hi Jose,

I believe you're going to want to enter the following to get your desired results:

keywords is "Manuela"

That worked for me when I used the keywords in your example on 3 images.

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Re: Keywords Search syntax help
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2022, 10:30:15 AM »
Thank You very much! Yes that worked.

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Re: Keywords Search syntax help
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2022, 10:30:34 AM »
Jose,

This will also work:

keywords "Manuela"$

HTH,

-Kirk

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Re: Keywords Search syntax help
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2022, 01:05:34 PM »
Thanks Kirk, do you know of a resource that I can use that speaks to the search criteria/parameters  that PM can use?

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Re: Keywords Search syntax help
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2022, 01:26:53 PM »
Jose,

Thanks Kirk, do you know of a resource that I can use that speaks to the search criteria/parameters  that PM can use?

On the Catalog menu, there are two items that are useful:

Searchable Fields...
Search Examples...

The documentation is here:
https://docs.camerabits.com/support/solutions/articles/48001077445-photo-mechanic-plus-search

HTH,

-Kirk