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areohbee
areohbee
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October 13, 2011
質問

Lightroom: Exact text match in smart collections and filters, including matching spaces

Is there really no way to search metadata for a term that has spaces in it? e.g. "brown hair".

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    July 9, 2017
    "To get only complete words returned, use Contains Words."

    Excellent point.  After seven years, I still forget the differences between Contains, Contains Words, and Contains All and have to look them up: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/finding-photos-catalog.html

     Contains Words is generally the most useful and the one I recommend (but I got confused this time).
    Crystal Visionary
    Crystal Visionary
    Known Participant
    July 9, 2017
    One thing you have to watch out for using "Contains" or "Contains All" is they do not match just complete words, but will match parts of words as well such as if you search for the word "Red" it will also return words like "Cleared" because "Cleared"  has the letters "red" in it.  To get only complete words returned, use "Contains Words".  Unfortunately none of Lightroom's text search routines give the expected results all the time, and Adobe, now that it has gone to a subscription business model, does not seem to feel any need to do anything about the database capabilities of Lightroom.  That is pleasing customers is no longer their highest priority.
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    robgendreau
    Inspiring
    July 9, 2017
    Yeah, we shouldn't have to hunt around for terms to include as text or have to design stuff like collection names for easy text searching. Lr should give us drop-down menus with the actual items, whether it be collections, cameras, lenses, etc. But we've nagged about this forever. And I would love to be able to save filters as a smart collection as opposed to a filter.
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    July 9, 2017
    You can usually work around the lack of the Is operator by using Contains All rather than Contains.  The Contains operator matches if the field contains any of the words (e.g. "Hawaii" or "1998"), whereas the Contains All operator matches only if the field contains all of the words (e.g. "Hawaii" and "1998").   

    There are common use cases where Contains All isn't sufficient, of course.  And we all agree that LR's text-matching operators are ill-conceived.
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    trevor98712893
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    July 9, 2017



    I switched to Lightroom from Aperture - reluctantly to say the least.

    Aperture had the ability to limit Smart Albums to filtering a specific album. This rule gave a drop down list of all the available Albums. Pretty simple and straightforward. And best of all, IT WORKED! Heck, even the new Photos app gets this (a screenshot of it is attached).

    In Lightroom, in theory, you can limit a Smart Collection to a specific Collection or Collection Set, but it doesn't seem to work constantly.

    PLEASE allow Smart Collections to filter via Collection Set.

    PLEASE allow the "Collection" filter in the Smart Collection set to be set to "is" (as seen in the attached Photos.app screenshot). If its not an exact match, then the Collection/Collection Set doesn't get included. Including text in quotes does not perform the expected operation.

    It shouldn't have to be a trial and error operation to do something which could be SO simple.

    This makes Smart Collections a complete pain in the bum to use on Lightroom.

    It would be amazing if Lightroom management could know that even the small things matter. 





    Rikk Flohr_Photography
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    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
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    April 3, 2017
    No. I meant 'bug'
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    Crystal Visionary
    Crystal Visionary
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    April 3, 2017
    Did you mean to say Blog?  If so, how do I access the blog?
    Rikk Flohr_Photography
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    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 3, 2017
    I have updated the bug to reflect the recent information. 
    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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    Samoreen
    Inspiring
    March 9, 2017
    Still not fixed in 2015.9.

    Anyone at Adobe needing an SQL course ?
    --Patrick
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    robgendreau
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2016
    That's kinda the whole basis behind Lr. It was designed to be modular like that.

    Perhaps you'd like Bridge better; it was designed differently, for things like very rapid browsing through folders.
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