How Separate Keywords? How Join Multi-Word Keywords?

1. How are Keywords required to be separated? Is a space sufficient or is a comma or something else required?
2. How do you join a multi-word keyword so it is recognized as one keyword? i.e. If you want "New York", not "New" and "York." Do you put it in quotes? Isolate it with commas? Other?

Yes, "New York" should come through as one Keyword. ( At least "Grand Canyon" does on mine.)
The "user manual": My mistake, I should have written "User Guide". Oops!
It is essentially the same as the help you get from the Menu>Help>Lightroom Help.
But it is a .PDF guide that I find easier to navigate and can bookmark.
You should have gotten a copy with your Lightroom Download but you can download another copy with Menu>Help>Help Resources Online and click on the PDF link.
Best of Luck
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How do you join a multi-word keyword so it is recognized as one keyword? i.e. If you want "New York", not "New" and "York." Do you put it in quotes? Isolate it with commas? Other?
Ocean View
Ocean Front
Over the Water
I try to do this in Library Mode, Keyword Creation box, I get 2 words.
Example, I type Los Angeles and get: Angeles, Los
Nothing I try works. I know it is common since I imported 200,000 images and I see lots of word combos used as keywords.
I read the manual, looked at tutorials, read an existing thread on this, can't find the simple answer.
I am about to start keywording my 200,000 images from the last 12 years, I need to learn this at the get go...
How to friends?
Dale Dreher
Los Angeles
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In my experience, the keyword entry boxes (for adding keywords), properly treat spaces as data.
You may need to adjust your preferences (Interface tab):
When searching for said keywords after entry: not so much - Lr treats spaces as delimiter, not data - not as part of the search term...
I use SpaceUrchin, some people use AnyFilter, for finding metadata with spaces in it.

In Keyword List panel, need to support quotes for AND'ing multi-word keyword searches

As far as I know (and read around), there's no way to search multi-word keywords in the keywords list panel using the "Filter Keywords" box. i.e. If I want to search for the "Great Blue Heron" keyword in a large animal keywords list I have, Lightroom will OR the three words instead of AND'ing them like Aperture does more intuitively. Adding quotes like "Great Blue Heron" doesn't work either. Again this is to filter a large keyword lists through the "Filter Keywords" box in the Keywords List panel.
Am I missing something? Is it possible to AND multi-word keywords?
Thanks.

Rob,
as far as I know spaces are also contained and allowed in controlled vocabularies (e.g. for the "official" names of animals 'little panda' for example and plants). I'm using spaces for names very often. As a prof. photographer I need to write captions for all of my images before sending them to my agency with WHEN/WHAT/WHERE/WHO etc. So when shooting persons very often or regular (e.g. politicians or athletes) I started years ago to create keywords and hierarchies for them. So it is much easier and more comfortable to assign them later.
Please check out PhotoMechanic or IMatch. These progs doesn't have any problems with spaces in keywords and keyword searches...
BTW: when using a space in a search I expect that the default behaviour of such a space is a locical AND.
Lars

Smart Collection matching a multi-word Keyword

I have the following multi-word keywords:
"through the years"
"kelly through the years"
"mike through the years"
I want to create a smart collection which only matches if the keyword is "through the years". I do not want the smart collection to match the other two.
Is this possible?

I agree that this is a design oversight that should be corrected. However, one could argue that a keyword entirely contained in another should be represented by a hierarchy. While the OP does not make it clear what the relationship is between "through the years" alone and "kelly through the years" it would seem that the concept of "kelly through the years" would be better represented with keyword beneath "through the years" and as such would not need to contain the string "through the years".
Also the OP states that the keyword "Kelly" exists on it's own and is distinct from "kelly through the years". It is not clear to me why just the keywords "through the years" and "Kelly" could not exist as flat keyword (no hierarchy). To achieve the concept of "kelly through the years" you would apply both. Then a simple AND condition would find the desired images.
In short I think this is a case of a flawed keyword hierarchy.
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Using multi-word keywords in "Find"

Let's say I have a keyword: "Downtown LA", and another keyword, "Downtown SLC". If I use the Lightroom "Find" option to search for "Downtown LA", it will actually find any images with "Downtown" as part of its keywording, including the "Downtown SLC" images.
I tried wrapping the keyword phrase in quotes to see if that would give me an exact phrase search, but it doesn't work that way apparently. I know I could drop down to the keyword browser, but let's say I'm looking for all images with both the "Downtown LA" keyword, AND the "Family Vacation" keyword. How would I search for such an intersection when the "find" menu locks in on individual words rather than the entire keyword phrase?

>You might want to check out the Keyboard Shortcuts and Search Rules document in the FAQ on this forum. There is a section which contains all the search arguments which allow you to do some pretty fancy stuff, including finding just "Salt Lake City"
I have a copy of that...it doesn't work.
Text: Keywords
Rule: Contains All
Text Field: Black Canyon
What I expect are photos with a keyword containing "black" and "canyon".
What I get are any photo with a keyword or any of its parents containing "black" and a keyword or any of its parents containing "canyon".
So, in addition to photos of Black Canyon Dam and photos taken in Back Canyon I also get photos of Black Birds taken in Canyon County.
This can be "fixed" by changing "Black birds" to "Blackbirds" and surrounding "Black" in the text field with plus signs...this is silly.
The space character is a ligitimate keyword character and ought to be treat as such if it does not appear at the beginning or end of a keyword.
The keyword entry panel uses commas as delimiters. Why are spaces used as delimiters in the Find panel?
How about the same delimiter (a comma) everywhere?
Winston Mitchell
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HT5098 How can I read on my Apple Arabic files of Times New Roman or Arial in PC? when I get the files the Arabic letters are separate and not joined. Is there a common font in Arabic that can convert the PC Windows files to my Apple?

How can I read on my Apple Arabic files of Times New Roman or Arial fonts made in PC? when I get the files the Arabic letters are separate and not joined. Is there a common font in Arabic that can convert the Arabic PC Windows files to my Apple?
The same with email messages ,
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Yewtree wrote:
when I get the files the Arabic letters are separate and not joined
Do not use MS Word for Mac, it does not support Arabic. Instead use Mellel, TextEdit, Nisus Writer or OpenOffice. Try the font Geeza Pro if others do not work.
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Can anyone tell me how to retrieve all reserved identifiers and keywords in

can anyone tell me how to retrieve all reserved identifiers and keywords in oracle ???
i want to know the syntax of query ??

yes i do , but now i faced problem of JDBC
thanx for the help , i am able to retrieve the keywords
actually i want to retrieve the words in java thought JDBC
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try ..//
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;catch //This is giving following exception
java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column name

How can i NOT include top level keyword in the metadata of an image?

Hello,
I want to know how can i NOT include top level keyword in the metadata of an image. I know there is an option for not applying a keyword to an exported image, but is there an option for not applying the top level keyword to the actual image?
I have organized my geographical (by location) keywords like this:
Places
USA
New York
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Spain.
If i add geographical keywords to all my images, all my images will have the keyword "Places", i dont think that it have any sence to have all your images with one keyword. How can i fix this? Any sugestion? i will appreciate it a lot any help or information that you could give me.
Excuse my english, i know it is not good. I hope that you could understand me.
Thanks,
Marcelo :)

Explicitly excluding a keyword only applies when "exporting". Unfortunately, there's currently no way to stop the keyword being written to the file when "Save Metadata to File" command is used. The natural reaction of users to this difference is to suggest that it is stupid. Nevertheless, there are good reasons why the difference exists:
1. "Export" creates a new file whereas "Save Metadata to File" writes the metadata back into the existing file.
2. There are very good reasons why certain keywords should not be written to file, and the example given in the OP is one. Saving metadata to file is more often used as means of backing up important image related metadata, independently of the catalog or allowing the metadata to be visible in other aplications. It would be rare that such a file would be shared with a third party, so the reason for not including certain keywords is less obvious. Actually, not including it can result in no end of confusion and grief. For example, if the top level (or any keyword) was excluded during the save metadata process then the other keywords would be orphaned when image is imported back into the catalog (e.g. buiding a new catalog).
The development team are aware of the need, in some circumstances, to exclude certain keywords when save metadata command is used. How and when the issue is resolved, without adding even more confusion/complexity, is some way off.

How to add a large number of keywords to the e-mail filter?

Hello.
I would like to know how to add a large number of keywords to a filter.
The thing I want to accomplish, is it to add around 4000 e-mail addresses to a filter list, which checks the body of incoming e-mails, which get forwarded to me.
I don't want to outright delete them, but I would love it if it detects that the forwarded message contains one of the e-mail addresses, it would add a tag to the message.
Is it in any way possible to make a filter like this, which doesn't slow Thunderbird down to ass-crawl speed?
I tried to copy the whole list into the small filter tab, but It had no discernible effect on my messages, since some of the previously received ones, which I was sure contained the keywords, were not tagged. All it did was make the program super slow and I was forced to delete the filter.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219686(v=office.15).aspx
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219808(v=office.15).aspx
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How do I find photos without a keyword tag?

How do I find photos without a keyword tag?
And by the way a further question regarding keyword tags remains unanswered...Why is there a difference between the number next to the keyword and the actual index number in the keyword folder?

I will try and explain in more detail to ensure we don't talk past each other.
I'm in "Catalog" and "All Photographs" is highlighted.
I selected to show the "Index Number" under "Library View Options".
In "Keyword List" I have main keywords such as Europe, Africa and Asia with no number to the right of it.
If I open the Europe keyword I have a list of countries each of them with a number next to them.
Next to Spain there is now showing the number 46.
I open "Spain" by clicking on the arrow to the right of the number.
Now all the photos with the Spain tag is shown but there are only 23 photo. Under Portugal there is 80 shown but only 40 photos is shown. Under Ireland the keyword only 11 is shown but once open there are 1132 photos.
There is not one keyword with the correct number next to it.
As a fairly new LR user it just appears to me that the two function don't "speak" or "correlate" with each other.

How can I show all of my keywords in iPhoto. there seems to be a limit on the number that can be used.

How can I show all of the keywords used in iPhoto. There seems to be alimit on how many can be displayed.

When I click the "Edit Keywords" button, I get a list of all keywords. I just added several hundred random keywords, and they are all visible, when I scroll the list in "Edit Keywords" view.
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How to use Workbench created Thesaurus and Keyword redirects in Endeca 3.1.2?

Hi ,
I have been trying to add a few Keyword Redirects and Thesaurus entries in the Endeca Workbench. After I add them, I am unable to see either the Keyword Redirects or Thesaurus being reflected in the Authoring/Live dgraphs!
I assumed that workbench entries will automatically override/merge the dev studio files when I run a baseline update. (There were no Keyword Redirects and Thesaurus entries I had created at this point through dev. studio.
But, When I add them via the Developer studio and run a baseline update, I am able to verify their working in jspref as well as in the Production site. PFB the version of Endeca that I am using:
PlatformServices – 6.1.3
WorkBench – 3.1.2
MDEX – 6.4.1
CAS – 3.1.2
I want to know how I can have workbench created/managed Keyword Redirects and Thesaurus.
I tried creating the Keyword Redirects and Thesaurus entries first (in the workbench) and then running a baseline update and vice versa, both the approaches didn't seem to work.
I have used the OOTB ProductCatalogIntegration set up to deploy this application and I've not changed anything in the AppConfig.xml either.
Any help would be hugely appreciated as I have been trying to acheive this for a long time without any progress.
Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to resolve this.
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I was able to get the thesaurus working by just adding the entries in the Workbench. There was a problem with the IFCR Utility which was the reason why the Thesaurus entries were not being published to the Live Dgraphs. Once that was fixed, the thesaurus worked correctly.
But Keyword Redirects had more effort as our site was using presentation API. The keyword directs configured in the workbench are not being returned as Supplement Objects, but rather as a content XML. So we needed to handle the XML content which contains the redirect url.
If you have set up your application correctly, then you should be able to see the redirects in jspref atleast.

How do you put a comment (not Keyword) on a photo in LRCC?

How do you put your comments (not keyword) on a photo in Lightroom CC?

What field would you suggest
You could use the EXIF: User Comment field:
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How do I automatically add filenames as keywords?

I want my filename to always be added as a keyword/metadata.

darn okay. i name them according to a hr/mm convention for race photos. then they only have to search for the hh/mm.
thx for the help though
Show me your passion and I'll immortalize it.
Scott [email protected]om
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:40:46 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do I automatically add filenames as keywords?
First, I still don't understand why anyone would want to search by file name if search by keyword was available.
Putting the file name into a keyword essentially defeats the purpose of keywords. If you have 1000 files in your Lightroom Library Module, then you have 1000 distinct keywords, and I can't see how that is useful to anyone.
But the bottom line is that I don't think Lightroom has the capability of putting file name into the keyword field.
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I have one library with around 50 Projects (this represent around 1500 pictures) I gave to hundred of them a specific keyword how can I found them ?

I have one library with around 50 Projects (this represent around 1500 pictures)
I gave to hundreds of them a specific keyword how can I found them ?
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If it is ok for you I would like to ask you another question.
With the filter settings removes I discover that I have more then 10'000 pictures !!!!!!!!
As I'm organized to have one archive files per year, I'm discovering a lot of pictures which have a keywords "from MobileMe". Is that correct to assume that is represent the pictures from the old world from mobile.me ?
Sorry but I can't help with this, I never used mobile me so I'm not sure how it worked.
It seems safe to assume that the images tagged with the MobileMe keyword were in your MobileMe galeries but exactly what that indicates I can't say.
regards

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