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May 5, 2011
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P: Find keyword by synonym

When searching for a keyword in the keyword list (using the keyword filter) only matches with keywords but not those matching with synonyms are displayed.
In Lr 2 also matches of those keywords were displayed which had a synonym match.
I would like this to be an option in Lr 3, too, maybe user-definable.
Usecases: I've got a large list of keywords with most of them having at least one synonym (my keywords are in German and I use synonyms for english translations and other synonyms). (1) When I look for the existence of a keyword I would like to make sure that I've not included it as a synonym already. (2) While searching for a specific topic sometimes I can only remember the synonym (yes, growing older...). In Lr2 I could find it easily by keyword filter.

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Participating Frequently
May 20, 2011
Yep, please resurrect this function in LR3.5
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Inspiring
May 16, 2011
I see this as a bug as it was working fine in LR2.
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Known Participant
May 16, 2011
This is an important function that is missing from LR3
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johnrellis
Legend
May 5, 2011
Agreed -- synonym support in LR 3 is weak. The Any Tag plugin provides a workaround, letting you filter and apply synonyms as well as keywords; but it would be better if LR had it built in.
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Rikk Flohr-Personal
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May 5, 2011
These are very valid concerns. I too have missed searching on Synonyms. It was part of my workflow before. I end up with extra duplicate keywords now that i have to clean out.
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Rikk Flohr (Adobe Retired)