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September 22, 2024
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P: Add time support to Smart Collection date fields for improved filtering

  • September 22, 2024
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Hello,

 

It would be great if the Smart Collection date fields could support time in addition to the date. This would allow us to create filters like "Capture Date" in the range of 2024-09-22 08:00 to 2024-09-22 08:45.

 

As a scuba diver, I take a lot of photos during my dives. On any given day, I might do one to four dives (especially on holidays), each at a different dive spot. I would like to have a smart collection for each dive spot, rather than just for the entire day, as it would greatly help my workflow.

 

For example, on September 22, 2024, I went diving at Spot A and Spot B, where I took:

  • Photos 1, 2, and 3 at Dive Spot A between 08:00 and 08:45 AM.
  • Photos 4, 5, and 6 at Dive Spot B between 11:00 and 11:55 AM.

 

Currently, I can only specify the date itself, which means I end up with a single smart collection containing all the photos from September 22, 2024, without the ability to differentiate between dive times.

 

Perhpas there is an alternative that I'm not aware of ?

 

Thank you,

 

Pierre-Benoît

2 replies

Lemming77Author
Participant
September 24, 2024

Hello @johnrellis ,

 

Thank you for your quick response! It's a pitty that LR does not support time for Smart Collection.

 

Hope this can be added to LR natively in future version !

 

Your plugin looks very intresting, I'll explore such path.

 

Thanks again!

 

Best Regards

 

Pierre-Benoît

johnrellis
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September 23, 2024

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"Perhaps there is an alternative that I'm not aware of?"

 

Not built-in to LR, unfortunately, The Any Filter plugin's Search command lets you search by time on specific days:

 

 

You can also search for a given hour or minute of the day (on any day), e.g.

 

 

Or use the Filter command to easily select a specific time range: