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August 19, 2012

P: Tags & whitespace handling inconsistent

  • August 19, 2012
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Using Lightroom 4.1 on Mac.I usually tag pictures, which show people with the names of the people.For this I manually set up a hierarchy like "People/John Doe". Now I select a picture, press cmd+k to enter the "add keyword" mode. Now I enter the person's name. In this case John. While entering it the autocompletion shows the matching name, i.e. John Doe. I press enter.Lightroom now applies to _separate_ tags called "John" and "Doe" on top level. It should have applied what it suggested, i.e. a single tag "John Doe" which is defined in the hierarchy under People.This bug makes tagging quite difficult because I have to use the mouse for every single picture.

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Legend
March 23, 2017
Fixed in Lightroom 5 or later.
johnrellis
Legend
August 22, 2012
A couple of workarounds that probably aren't ideal for you:

- Tediously rename all the keywords with commas, e.g. to use "-" instead.

- The Any Tag plugin provides an alternative method of fast keyword tagging optimized for keyboard entry of keywords.
Participant
August 20, 2012
I don't use it because I have lots of tags which contain a comma. I created these before my switch to Lightroom. I use them e.g. to name people like "Doe, John".

Using these keywords is fine until you assign them using the keyboard, which does not work at all.
johnrellis
Legend
August 20, 2012
Whether you call it a bug or a misdesign, I agree that's not good behavior.

But why not set Separate Keywords Using to Commas instead of Spaces?
dorin_nicolaescu
Inspiring
August 20, 2012
I don't think it's a bug. The suggestion pop up simply puts the selected term into your keyword edit box. From there, it behaves as if it was entered manually.

So, I think it's by design, but it's not a good design. For the record, Lightroom 3 does the same way.

It's more of a feature request than a bug report.
Participant
August 20, 2012
It is set to whitespace.

In either case (whitespace vs comma) Lightroom should apply what it suggested with the autocompletion. Suggesting a single tag and applying two or more is a bug, imho.

It could wrap it in quotation marks, as this is what is suggested in the settings dialog.
RikkFlohr: Inactive
Inspiring
August 20, 2012
Lightroom>Preferences>Interface>Keyword Entry
Has "Separate Keywords Using" been changed to Spaces from Commas?