I've just started using Bridge and trying to get to grips with Keywords and Filters. Most of my photos were tagged using Windows Photo Gallery using their hierarchy system TOPLEVEL/SUB LEVEL/SUB LEVEL and so on for one or many sub levels ie the top level PEOPLE could have sub levels of FAMILY, FRIEND, WORKMATES, etc. Family could have further sub levels of SURNAME 1, SURNAME2, SURNAME2 etc. with each having another sub level of the name of the family. This is the same principle as Bridge Keywords. The full tag was the complete tree structure with each section of the tree delimited by a /.
When I view these photos in Bridge using both FILTERS and KEYWORDS the hierarchy system is lost so every person has their own sub keyword under the keyword of [other keywords] or filter in alphabetical order. This means to display all my family members I have to select some 50plus keywords rather than a single sub keyword of family.
I have seach this issue and it seems I'm not the only person unhappy with this with posts going back 6 or more years.
Yes it would be possible to redo all the key words but as Bridge treats each keyword & sub keyword as individual this would then mean if I wanted to display all the photos I had of a particular family member called Fred Smith then every single Fred (friend, workmate, and family group) photo would be displayed rather than just from the smith family.
Is there a way round this or will ADOBE include this feature or am I better off with Photo Gallery which can manage this task with ease?
Bridge is good in other ways but without the selectable hierarchy feature then for me it's no better than Windows File Explorer and a long way behind Photo Gallery.
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