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Sean Phillips
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April 4, 2011
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P: Add "Is Empty" and "Isn't Empty" to all attribute filters and Smart Collection filters

Lightroom desperately needs additional filtering (and smart filtering) capabilities. Specifically I want to be able to find all images for which I haven't entered anything in certain metadata fields. It is important to ensure that every image has certain metadata fields completed before releasing those images into the wild, but it's not always easy to find those empty fields....

Only some fields in the Attribute filter or in Smart Collections currently have an available option to filter by "Is Empty" or "Isn't Empty". For example, I can search for Is or Isn't Empty in the "Caption" field, but not in the "Title" field.

53 replies

Legend
January 10, 2012
Yes.
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Legend
January 10, 2012
Yes.
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Sean Phillips
Known Participant
January 10, 2012
Please tell me that this got fixed in LR4beta??
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areohbee
Legend
June 16, 2011
Ah - gotya. Worthy of a separate 'Idea' me-thinks, lest it be lost in this one.
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areohbee
Legend
June 16, 2011
Ah - gotya. Worthy of a separate 'Idea' me-thinks, lest it be lost in this one.
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Participant
June 16, 2011
If I have a smart collection A and creating a new smart collection B, it's not possible to select photos based of their existence in smart collection A.
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Participant
June 16, 2011
If I have a smart collection A and creating a new smart collection B, it's not possible to select photos based of their existence in smart collection A.
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areohbee
Legend
June 16, 2011
Joop - I'm not sure what you mean. Would you mind elaborating?
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areohbee
Legend
June 16, 2011
Joop - I'm not sure what you mean. Would you mind elaborating?
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Participant
June 16, 2011
And matching and filtering on the contents of smart collections will help too. Now, to my knowledge, we can only use 'normal' collections as a collection source to filter on.
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