Basic Search Isn't Finding Keyword Metadata

I have a basic search box on my home page. I have a page located in the same page group that has a search word in it for testing. When I input that word into the basic search box, it doesn't find that page. I have Oracle Text enabled in my portal so a basic search box should be able to find text not only in the keyword field but anywhere on the page. Does anyone have any idea why it is not finding it?

Hi,
Have you figured this out yet? I'm having the same problem with the 'basic search item" that i have on all my pages. I doesn't return any item results,..only page results.

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Basic Search & Advanced search in IdM

Hi Experts,
I was searching for one user on IdM UI, and I found that the basic search was not working (I only filled the Unique ID= userXYZ), but when I search for this userXYZ under advanced search, the user was found correctly.
Did you get this behavior in your system, I mean the Basic search in not showing the same results as the Advanced?
I am using IdM 7.2 SP7.
Thank you very much for your comment,
Victoria

Hi Matt,
The basic search work fine for other users.
The problem here is that Basic Search can not find my inactive userXYZ only by entering his ID but when I choose Advanced Search and Inactive checkbox now I can find my inactive userXYZ.
So why this inactive user can be shown only by using the combination of Advanced + Inactive checkbox ?
Many thanks,
Victoria

ITunes search can't find my show by my keywords

I'm the maker of Machigai Podcast, which is available in iTunes. I use WordPress 3.4.2 and Blubrry PowerPress 4.0.4 to publish the show. I cannot figure out why iTunes cannot find my podcast when searching on any keywords, except "Machigai". It seems that iTunes is not finding the information I've entered in the "iTunes" tab of the Blubrry PowerPress Settings.
Looking at my feed itself in the browser, I see that, rather than displaying my iTunes program subtitle or summary, it instead shows the "tagline" from the WordPress general settings! Still, the text from the iTunes Program Summary does display in iTunes -- but an iTunes search for words that appear in that summary does NOT bring up my show, nor does a search for any of my "iTunes Program Keywords".
It's worth noting that much of this text is in Japanese. I had found with Feed Validator that there was an encoding problem with the feed, but I fixed that problem several days ago, and the search problem persists. (INCLUDING for Keywords that are IN ENGLISH)
I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?

I tried searching on your first keyword, 英会話 , and it brought up a large number of podcasts. Of course I don't know what this word is, but it appears to be a common one. Certainly the English keywords are going to appear in many podcasts so you are competing with them to appear in the results. (This is quite apart from the fact that the keyword search can be unreliable.)
In iTunes the 'itunes:subtitle' and 'itunes:summary' appear to be showing correctly. When you view the feed in a browser these tags, which are specific to iTunes, do not show - what shows is the 'description' tag and again this is showing as expected.
For reference, your feed is at http://www.machigai.com/wordpress/?feed=podcast - please when you have a question always post your iTunes Store page URL and that of your feed, to save detective work.

How to add keyword metadata to elements after upload

Hello,
I am adding fcp projects with all its linked media to our server...There can be hundreds of elements attached to the project file, is there a way to change the keyword metadata for a whole element group within a project? It seems that I can only add keywords one at a time which would end up being literally thousands of entries.
anybody encounter this??
thanks
dan

There is a way to batch add metadata, but it isn't iTunes-easy and you need to be have admin rights on your FCSvr to do it. Also, this is a manual process after each set of assets exist. Anything more automatic would require custom scripting.
You can use the Search Expired response to batch other responses. Create a new Search Expired response and set it to use the Custom 1 event type. Set the Timestamp Field to "Creation Date". Leave the Expiry Days empty. Below that you can filter based on the usual options or leave them all open to hit all your assets (up to you).
Next, create a Set Asset Metadata response and populate it with the value you want to apply to your assets. Set this response to run by Subscription based on the Custom 1 event type.
Finally, schedule your Search Expired response to run. When it does, it will fire what amounts to a dummy event (Custom 1) on the filter it was set for, triggering the Subscription you set up to listen for that event type. That fires the Set Asset Metadata response, and now all your assets are tagged with the desired default in the new field.
The Custom event types are there for tethering a Search Expired response to a Subscription, so unless you know what you are doing, avoid the other event types on a Search Expired response.
The official documentation does not really explain this very well, but it does indeed work. Once you get the desired result, you can disable the schedule for the Search Expired response.

Basic Search Implementation

Can anyone suggest how Basic Search is implemented through Adaptive Tags in WCI.
Or is there any way how to show basic search settnigs in community page.

Found this article in my saved files, I think it's what you're looking for. It's for 5.0 Portal, but I suspect it works with later releases as well.
5.0 Search Results Page URL Format (DA_223496)
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Article ID: DA_223496 Article Type: INFO
Created: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 Updated: Mon, Apr 19, 2004
Summary
This article provides instructions on how to build a portal URL that runs a search with a given set of constraints.
More Information
This article describes how to construct a portal URL that runs a search and displays results on the portal's search results page. For example, an HTML form that includes a search box would also include these parameters (most of which would be hidden inputs in the form).
Step 1: Required parameters for all searches
Start constructing any search URL with these parameters:
Parameter
Value
Explanation
in_hi_space
SearchResult
Tells the portal to create a new SearchResult ActivitySpace.
in_hi_spaceID
<integer>
(UI Framework parameter) Leave this off the initial search URL. Links on the result page include this parameter so that the portal framework can reuse a cached ActivitySpace.
in_hi_control
searchstart
Use this on the initial search URL to indicate that it is, indeed, an initial search.
cached
false
(UI Framework parameter) Tells the portal not to reuse any previous SearchResult space. Include this on the initial search URL.
parentid
<integer>
(UI Framework parameter) The spaceID of the ActivitySpace that launched the search. Not used by the search code.
in_hi_userid
<integer>
(UI Framework parameter) Current user’s ID. Not used by the search code.
Step 2: Indicate the type of query you want to run
The initial search URL needs to specify a search query. After the user views the initial page of results, links or controls on the page let the user modify the query (for example, go to the second page) or add additional queries (“search within results” or category drill-down).
There are two types of initial query you can run:
Basic search: Specify a search string. Also, optionally, specify object types, folders, and such via URL parameters. You cannot restrict the search by the value of an arbitrary portal property. Only the properties listed on the "Banner Fields Alias" page of the Search Results Manager are searched (this list is usually Name, Description, and Full-Text Content).
Advanced search: Offers all the flexibility of the portal’s advanced search page. Specify a complete PTFilter in URL parameters: some settings might come from user form inputs, while others might come from hidden parameters. You can also specify object types, folders, and such via URL parameters.
Banner search is a special case of basic search in which certain settings (the object types to be searched) are preset by the portal. The portal uses the special value in_hi_control=bannerstart to distinguish banner search from an ordinary basic search. Ordinarily you should use in_hi_control=searchstart unless you want the special banner search behavior.
The URL parameters for basic and advanced search differ slightly.
To run a basic search use just one required parameter:
Parameter
Value
Explanation
in_tx_query
<string>
The user’s search string.
Advanced search has a long list of possible parameters. (If you do not need to constrain by property values, just use basic search and skip to the next step.)
Looking at the Filter Editor or Snapshot Query Editor in the portal will make the following table clearer. An advanced search query is the same as a filter (except for the optional settings shown in Step 3 below). There is a top-level text search string, which matches items’ name, description, or full-text content (like basic search). There is also a tree of property constraints; each grouping (or clause) in the tree consists of a set of statements, which in turn consist of a property ID, an operator (such as “contains”), and a value to match against.
The easiest way to proceed might be to build the search on the Advanced Search page or in the Snapshot Query Editor, then click through to the search page (from Advanced Search or the Content Snapshot portlet). Save the initial search result page URL and compare it with the parameters below.
Parameter
Value
Explanation
in_ra_topoperator
and or or
This is a required parameter for advanced search. Indicates whether the top-level text search string and the entire property constraint tree will be joined by an AND or an OR (corresponding to “all criteria” or “any criterion” on the advanced search page). If the text search string is empty or there is no property tree, this operator is unimportant, but the parameter must still be included.
in_tx_fulltext
<string>
The top-level text search string. Can be empty.
in_hi_totalgroups
<integer>
Number of groups (clauses) in the property constraint tree. (This is not the depth of the tree, since there could be more than one clause at a given depth.) This is always 1 for a search constructed on the Advanced Search page, since the page does not allow nested clauses.
in_ra_groupoperator_j
and or or
Boolean operator that joins statements in group j (first group is 1, not 0). For searches constructed on the Advanced Search page, there is always just one such parameter with j=1, and it is the same as in_ra_topoperator.
in_hi_revealed_j
<integer>
Number of statements in group j. Must be at least 1.
in_hi_depth_j
<integer>
Depth of clause j in the tree. For group 1 (the single group you can build on the Advanced Search page) this is 0. In general, if clause j has depth d, then clause j’s parent is the last clause to be specified with depth d-1. This means that you need to number the clauses depth-first, not breadth-first.
Example: If group 1 has depth 0, group 2 has depth 1, group 3 has depth 2, group 4 had depth 1, and group 5 has depth 2, then 1 is the parent of 2 and 4, and 2 is the parent of 3, and 4 is the parent of 5.
in_se_PropSelect_j_k
<integer>
ID of property being constrained by statement k of group j (the first statement of any group is 1, not 0), followed by a bar (|) character, and a single-digit code indicating the type of the property (which should match the property definition in the portal – this is inconvenient). The code is 3 for long, 5 for double, 7 for date, 8 for string.
in_se_OpText_j_k
<integer>
If statement k of group j constrains a text property, this is the operator (from PT_FILTEROPS) that joins the property ID and value. For example, 7 is “contains”.
in_se_OpNumber_j_k
<integer>
Same as preceding, except used for numeric properties. 1 is “equals”, 2 is “not equals”, 3 is “less than”, 4 is “greater than”, 5 is “less than or equal to”, 6 is “greater than or equal to”.
in_se_OpDate_j_k
<integer>
Same as preceding, except used for date properties. 3 is “comes before”, 4 is “comes after”.
in_tx_compareval_j_k
<string> or <double>
For statement k of group j, the comparison value. If the property being constrained is of type date, use the next item instead.
in_tx_comparedate_j_k
<long>
For statement k of group j, the comparison value if the property being constrained is of type date, expressed as the number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 00:00:00.
Step 3: Add optional settings to the search
Finally, for either a basic or advanced search, you can use any of the parameters listed in the following table to restrict the search as described. This list does not include restrictions by portal property values; to do this you must use an advanced search.
These arguments must be preceded by a prefix. You can generally use in_hi_req_ in all cases, but refer to the text after the table for other options.
Parameter
Value
Explanation
prefix + lang
2-letter language code
Language that query is parsed in. Default is the user’s current language setting.
prefix + lbl
1 for true, 0 for false
Limit By Language. If true, results must be in the same language used to parse the query. Default is true.
prefix + apps
1 for portal, 2 for Collab, 4 for Content
Plumtree application to search. You can combine applications by bitwise-ORing the values, for example, 3 for “portal or collab”. Default is whatever applications are installed.
prefix + objtype
Any value from PT_CLASSIDS, such as 18 for cards
Portal object types to search for. Repeat multiple times to search for multiple types. You cannot restrict the types of Collaboration Server or Content Server items using URL parameters; all you can do is turn them on or off with the apps setting.
prefix + ddfolder
<integer>
ID of Knowledge Directory folder to search. Repeat this argument multiple times to search multiple folders.
prefix + adfolder
<integer>
ID of Administrative Object Directory folder to search. Repeat this argument multiple times to search multiple folders. If ddfolder and adfolder are both included, items from either the Knowledge Directory or Administrative Object Directory can be returned.
prefix + subfolders
1 for true, 0 for false
If true, subfolders of any folder specified by ddfolder or adfolder are included as well. Default is true.
prefix + community
<integer>
ID of community to search.
prefix + spell
1 for true, 0 for false
If true, use the Search Server’s spell correction capabilities to try to find matches for any terms it does not recognize.
prefix + bbs
1 for true, 0 for false
If true, and if the query string matches a Best Bet trigger string, rank the Best Bet’s targets at the top of the result list. Applies only to basic search, not advanced search.
prefix + thesaurus
1 for true, 0 for false
If true, use the Search Server’s thesaurus to expand the query string(s).
prefix + portletid
<integer>
For Content Server items (only), restricts the search to items associated with the supplied portlet ID.
A note on prefixes: As stated above, ordinarily you can prefix any of these arguments with in_hi_req_ and things will be fine. However, the portal UI framework sometimes forces checkboxes and radio buttons to have names starting with in_cb or in_ra, so you can also use in_cb_req_ or in_ra_req_ in those cases.
Also, the prefix in_hi_opt_, in combination with the in_se_sel_ family of arguments, lets you add drop-down selectors to search forms that cause conditional behavior depending on the selected item. The rule is:
If any parameter starting with in_se_sel_ appears, take its value (call it V).
Look for any other parameters starting with in_hi_opt_V_, where V is the value you just located. Apply those settings to the search (using the above table) in addition to any in_hi_req_ prefixed settings.
See the examples below.
Examples
Here is a search form that implements very basic search for portal documents:
<form method="post" action="http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt">
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_space" value="SearchResult"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_control" value="searchstart"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cached" value="false"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_req_apps" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_req_objtype" value="18"/>
Search: <input type="text" name="in_tx_query"/>
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
Here is a search form that implements an advanced search for portal documents. It displays two search boxes. One matches text in the name, description, or content of the document, and the other matches the Author property. In addition, the Keywords property is implicitly constrained to contain the text ‘plumtree’.
<form method="post" action="http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt">
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_space" value="SearchResult"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_control" value="searchstart"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cached" value="false"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_req_apps" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_req_objtype" value="18"/>
Search for: <input type="text" name="in_tx_fulltext"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_ra_topoperator" value="and"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_totalgroups" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_ra_groupoperator_1" value="and"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_revealed_1" value="2"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_depth_1" value="0"/>


<input type="hidden" name="in_se_PropSelect_1_1" value="103|8"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_se_OpText_1_1" value="7"/>
where the Author contains <input type="text" name="in_tx_compareval_1_1"/>


<input type="hidden" name="in_se_PropSelect_1_2" value="101|8"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_se_OpText_1_2" value="7"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_tx_compareval_1_2" value="plumtree"/>
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
Here is an example of using drop-down selectors in a search form. It is a bit contrived, but this form gives the users the option of searching “Marketing” (documents under folder 123), “Sales” (documents under folder 456), “Communities” (search for any community the user has access to), or “Collab projects” (items within Collaboration Server projects).
<form method="get" action="http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt">
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_space" value="SearchResult"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_control" value="searchstart"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cached" value="false"/>

<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_marketing_apps" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_marketing_objtype" value="18"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_marketing_ddfolder" value="123"/>

<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_sales_apps" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_sales_objtype" value="18"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_sales_ddfolder" value="456"/>

<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_communities_apps" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_communities_objtype" value="512"/>

<input type="hidden" name="in_hi_opt_collab_apps" value="2"/>
Search..
<select name="in_se_sel_1">
<option value="marketing">Marketing folder</option>
<option value="sales">Sales folder</option>
<option value="communities">All communities</option>
<option value="collab">All Collab projects</option>
</select>
for: <input type="text" name="in_tx_query"/>
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
The information in this article is related to:
Foundation (Portal) versions: 5.0.x
Search Server versions: 5.0
Other Products:
Topics: Search
Related Articles: 5.0 Search Results Page
Search Syntax in Plumtree Corporate Portal
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The "Search" facility in Finder doesn't find files I know are on my Mac.

I just typed "7-minute" into the Search bar on Finder for "All My Files" looking for a document I'd saved a few months back and the result came up with no documents. I looked in my Documents folder and there was the document I was looking for, "7-minute workout". This has been happening a lot lately. I've also noticed this same anomaly in Mail, where I will search for a keyword that I am absolutely sure is in a email, and it will come up blank, or only find recent examples and not old ones (I have all my emails back to 1999: disk is cheap.) I'm on Mac OS 10.8.5.
The only thing I can think of is that I had the 256 GB hard disk on my early 2008 20-inch iMac replaced with SSD recently (professionally, but not by Apple.) It runs much faster, but did I give it Alzheimer's in the process?
(btw, I'm a 35-year tech vet, including 3 years with Apple, so don't worry about being technical in a response.)

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender mdworker -o -k Sender mds | grep -v 'boxd\|Norm' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.

Find keyword doesn't work properly in Bridge CS4

I recently upgraded my Bridge from CS3 to CS4 and I'm having trouble doing a find for keywords now. All my photos that I had saved with a keyword kept the keywords from CS3, but any time I do a find for a certain keyword, it says that it didn't find anything. However, when I go to a certain photo in Bridge and select or highlight that photo, then do a find for that photo using the keyword I saved for it, it will recognize the keyword and find the photo from then on. I have hundreds of photos and I don't have time to open every single folder and select every photo just so that Bridge will recognize its keyword. Is there any way around this and has anyone else had this problem?

but any time I do a find for a certain keyword,
Try the find menu (edit/find or cmd+F). In Source choose your main folder all your files are in. Criteria choose keyword and fill in one of the keywords you want.
Be sure to have a checkmark in fornt of the options 'Include all subfolders' and 'include Non indexed files'.
Hit find and let Bridge do it's searching. This first time may take a bit long but now Bridge starts indexing all files. After this you should be able to use the option for finding keywords as normal.

How to get Keyword metadata from PDF's ?

Hi,
First of all apologies for perhaps stupid questions that I'm asking as I'm a AppleScript novice
What I'm trying to do is to convert PDF documents to image files (.png or .jpeg), this I can easily accomplish using the Automators "Render PDF Pages as Images" action.
The difficulty comes from that I also want to rename the generated image files (or PDF's before converting them to images) using part of the data that is contained in each PDF's Keywords metadata and for this I think I need to do some AppleScript coding (need to get and parse the Keyword metadata string for each PDF and then use the parsed data to rename files). Any ideas, hints or tips how this should be done using AppleScript ? (any websites / blogs where this kind of processing has been done ?)
Appreciate a lot if you can help in this,
Alan

Hi Alan,
Typing the following two lines in the Script Editor should list the metadata attributes for the choosen file:
set F to choose file with prompt "Choose a PDF file:" of type "PDF "
do shell script "mdls" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of F
For more information on "mdls", open the Terminal window and just type “man mdls” (and return).
Maybe you might also use the following AppleScript statement in case there were some keywords in the Spotlight comments field of the file:
tell application "Finder" to return comment of F
Message was edited by: Pierre L.

I updated to 7.0.1 and my search function cannot find anything now

I updated to 7.0.1 and my search function cannot find anything now

Searching the email. When i type in the keywords, it looks like it's searching, but the results are always the same - nothing found. I've used this function many times daily, I have an enormous amount of emails saved. Thanks...

Mail search isn't working. Help!

Mail search isn't working (I'm running 10.5.8). It will search Subject/From/To, but searching 'Entire message' brings no results. This is a disaster. Tried reindexing Spotlight, but that didn't work. Any ideas gratefully received!

It does sound like a Spotlight indexing problem, has it had time to finish indexing?
In the meantime, it won't be as fast searching for content, but I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Here's a direct download link to EasyFind 4.0 which runs in 10.3.9 & up...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/legacy/macosx1039/EasyFind.dmg.zip
From this page,
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
Freeware applications:
    * EasyFind 4.0
    * PhotoStickies 5.6
    * ThumbsUp 4.3
    * XMenu 1.8
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use it to search your Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail for case insensitive whatever... once you open that folder in the Finder it should be a choice to limit the search to that folder at the dropdown at the right of EasyFind.

Customizing the basic search

hi all
is there a way to fully customize the basic search portlet? how can i change the name of the "search" button - i want it to be in my native language, and the portal doens have a translation for it
can anyone help?

this is the code of my custom search portlet
Hope it help you
<table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table1">
<FORM ACTION="http://oasserver2.mici.gob.pa/portal/page?_pageid=6,9553&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL" METHOD="POST" NAME="mysearchform" onSubmit="fetch();" style=margin:0;>
<tr>
          <td>
          <input class="textA" id="Search" size="22" name="ms" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #3A5B9E">
          </td>
          <td>
          <p align="right">
          <a onclick="javascript: return isNotNull(document.searchForm.keyword.value)" href="javascript:document.searchForm.submit()" style="color: #000; text-decoration: none">
          <input type="image" src="http://oasserver2.mici.gob.pa/img/search.jpg" border="0" alt="Submit" width="21" vspace="1" border="0">
          </tr>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="pg" VALUE="40">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="search_type" VALUE="Simple">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="ll" VALUE="">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="p_action" VALUE="SUBMIT">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="_dad" VALUE="portal">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="_schema" VALUE="PORTAL">
</FORM>
</table>

[tip] search for / selecting NO keywords (selection photos without a keyword)

Probably it is old news but I couldn't find it here that fast.
I have 20.000 photos, some have a keyword(s) some have not. So I searched for a selection of photographs without a keyword. But there is none.
The trick is to add a special keyword you normally not use like (only) "_" (underscore) to all photos without a keyword. But there is no way to select photos wihtout a keyword... So I came up with a two step strategy and this trick only cost 2-3 minutes with 20.000 photos:
Add the "_" keyword to all you photos.
Select all photos with a real keyword by shift clicking on all keywords tags except "_".
Remove the "_" keyword from those photos.
Now select the "_" keyword or search on the "_" keyword.
A how to, in 14 steps:
1. Hit G, goto library (in left panel) and click on "all photographs"
2. Select all photos by pressing ctrl-a
3. Wait till LR is ready displaying all used keywords in the right keywords panel
4. In right panel under keywording/keyword tags add the keyword "_"
5. Wait till LR is ready updating all your photos (20.000 photos: 1 minute)
6. Goto "Keyword tags" in the left panel
7. Select the (suppose the second) keyword just after the "_" keyword by left clicking.
8. Scroll down till the end in the keyword list
9. Now, shift click on the last keyword
10. You now selected all keywords except the "_" keyword and all are highlihted
11. Select all photo's (ctrl-a)
12. Wait till LR shows all the keywords in the Keywording/keyword tags panel on the right
check: the keyword "_" should have no asterix like "_*" if so: goto step 1!
13. Remove the "_" keyword and press enter
14. Wait till LR is ready
From now on while selecting the "_" keyword or searching on the keyword "_" LR will only show the photos without a (real) keyword.
Of course, as soon as you add keyword(s) to your foto(s) you have to delete the "_" keyword.
Speed tip: when starting keywording, select the photo you like to add real keywords, ctrl-k brings you directly to the keyword tags panel in edit mode, hit backspace (to delete the "_" keyword and start typing your keywords and hit enter or tab when done. Then immediately (of course) the photo dissapears from your "_" keyword selection photos and the next photo is selected and is waiting for you to hit ctrl-k and start again. Look mam, "no mouse used!"
Have fun!

>I have 20.000 photos, some have a keyword(s) some have not. So I searched for a selection of photographs without a keyword. But there is none.
There is actually, and it is much simpler:
Using the Find Panel, choose Text: Keywords and Rule: Are Empty.

Search KM Documents on DC Metadata

Hi Gurus,
I need to search docs on metadata.
to activate this i followed the steps in
\usr\sap\TRX\TRX00\exe\extensions\dcattributes\readme.txt.
But i cant find any metadata extensions created.
How to activate it.
Thanks in advance

Hi ,
Whenever a property is created , there is an option to say if its indexable or not.
If its indexable , it is already available for search.
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0a3aa93-cc70-2910-5f88-dc4076b4fc92">Implementation help for DC metadata based search</a>
Regards
Bhararthwaj

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