How to flatten keyword hierarchy?

For about a year I had all my keywords organized into a nice hierarchy, but after moving projects between libraries and computers my keywords are in chaos because keyword hierarchy information is not included in exported projects. I have keywords repeated with one nested in a folder and its copy sitting at the top level (with photos assigned to both).
After seeing what a mess moving projects causes, I'd like to eliminate the hierarchies and just keep a flat list. Does anyone know of a way to flatten the structure without having to drag each keyword out of its folder? I tried deleting the Keywords.plist file, but it gets rebuilt with the hierarchy intact. Any help is appreciated!

One thing that might be a factor is the way Aperture keeps keywords active even if you move or delete them in the keywords list.
In order to have control over your keyword list, you need to delete existing keywords from your images. As Steve Weller points out in his articles, Aperture keeps keyword information in several places, not just the keyword list, and you need to deal with all of the places in order to control the hierarchy of the keyword list. For example, if you have set up custom keyword buttons, they store the keyword in the hierarchy of the time the button was created, so each time you use the button, you are making Aperture "remember" the hierarchy, even if you have later moved the keyword.
But your issue is that you have many images using keywords. When a keyword is used in an image, it is stored with the image; Aperture remembers the hierarchy of the keyword. This means that if you later move that keyword in the keyword list, Aperture considers the moved keyword to be separate and independent of the keyword previously used with an image. You can see this in the smart album display of keywords, which is based on actually used keywords. If you are having this problem, then keywords will appear more than once in the smart album keyword list. If you want to keep the same spelling of a keyword that has been moved in the keyword list, the only solution I know of is, frankly, a bit tedious:
1. use the smart album to select all images using the unwanted version of the keyword
2. then assign an "intermediate" (not identically spelled) keyword to those images,
3. then delete the unwanted version of the keyword from the images (use the keyword field in the control bar; option-tilde or click on the field, then type the name of the unwanted keyword, then shift-return to delete the keyword)
4. then assign the new version of the keyword to the images
5. then delete the intermediate keyword
Good luck!

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How to use keyword hierarchy?

Hiya,
In my Keywords HUD, I have created a hierarchical order of keywords, such as
- Europe
-- Ireland
-- Germany
- Prints
-- A4
-- 6x4
If I want to assign the keyword "Ireland" to a bunch of photos, I select all these photos and drag the keyword from the HUD to the photos.
What I am struggling with are 2 problems:
- How do I browse interactively by keyword hierarchy? Can I select "Europe" as a keyword in order to see all photos being taken in Europe? Can I select "Gemany" afterwards in order to see the subset of photos being taken in Germany?
- How do I create smart folders containing all photos being taken in Europe? If I take as a search criteria "IPTC > Keywords" and search for "Europe", I don't get any feedback, but if I search for "Ireland", I get all the photos being taken in Ireland.
Does Aperture ignore the upper levels (e.g. "Europe", "Prints") for all its features?
Is the hierarchy exclusively used for the presentation of keywords in the Keywords HUD?
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Stephan

Maybe I'm missing something, as I typically ask questions, not answer them, but doesn't this work for you?
Either type Europe into the quick search section of the Search Panel or toggle open the "text" criteria and enter it there.
That should find the images by the upper level keywords.
You can narrow the search by selecting match "all" and adding more text items for upper level keywords, or by selecting lower level keywords from the keywords criteria section.
The manual states that you can quick search multiple text items by separating them by commas, but that didn't seem to work for me. Aperture seems to treat upper level keywords as text, and they can be searched as such.
Once the search is completed, click the create smart album, and you should have what you are looking for, I hope.
Good Luck!
Steve
MacPro 2.66GHz, 2G Memory Mac OS X (10.4.8) Aperture 1.5.2

How do I filter photos using the keyword hierarchy?

Since Aperture 3.1 came out, I've been taking another look at it and considering switching back from Lightroom. One baby step was to set up a proper keyword hierarchy with Aperture. Trying to use that for sorting photos, I started feeling incredibly frustrated and felt like I must be missing something screamingly obvious.
Here's my issue. Using the keyword HUD, I can set up a nested, hierarchical keyword list. The HUD helpfully displays a running tally of all photos that keyword is applied to. "Great!" I thought, I've got 46 photos of John Smith, let's take a look at them. So I click on the number. Apparently, while Aperture is happy to show you the number of photos with the keyword, it's not willing to take you to those photos (i.e., create a library filter and show the results) via the Keyword HUD.
Bringing up the filter HUD seems unhelpful for the opposite reason. While you can search via the keywords there, it doesn't show the keyword hierarchy! Am I missing something? Say I've got keywords for two people, Adam and Zoe, filed under People/Friends/. Using the keyword box in the filter HUD will list one at the beginning and the other at the end of my entire list of keywords. Worse, the filter HUD only seems helpful for keywords if you know which ones you're looking for, which defeats the point of using a hierarchy. If, say, I know there's 3 or 4 people I'm looking for under a particular category, but I can't remember their name of the top of my head, how do I go about finding them using the filter HUD? All I have is the long, uncategorized master list of keywords.
Again, I feel I must be missing something obvious. Thanks for your help.
Cheers.

I agree, clicking on a keyword in the HUD that has a number after it to get those photos seems like a no brainer. Even though I know it doesn't do that I still find myself clicking on it before I catch myself. Need to send feedback to Apple on this, clicking on a keyword should create a filter to and display those images.
In your example the images of Adam and Zoe should be tagged with the keywords that apply to them. That is they would have the keywords people, friends, male or female, Adam or Zoe, and whatever other keywords you use to describe these images. Then you check as many keywords in the filter that apply and you can remember.
While the keyword HUD shows the keywords in a hierarchy, keywords applied to an image are one dimensional, linear. Its just a string of words without structure. The hierarchy is just there to make it easier to conceptualize the structure.

How About Some Standard Standards For Keyword Hierarchy?

After reading Wolf Eilers post in the "Respect Keyword Hierarchy when importing" thread, I tried his example and exported a RAW file with the "Outdoor>Landscape" example he gave and then re-imported the jpeg. It came back in with Landscape as the parent of Outdoor, that is backwards from what I intended. Go figure.
If LR respects ">" as indicating a parent-child relationship between keywords it is fine with me. However, Microsoft decided to use "/" because there is apparently no XMP standard for keyword hierarchies. Wouldn't it be nice if Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple too got together and set a defacto standard for keyword hierarchies. As it is now, I can create a keyword "Outdoor/Landscape" in LR and have it appear in Vista Photo Gallery with Landscape as a child of Outdoor. However, if re-imported into LR it comes in as "Outdoor/Landscape". Can't we just all get along?

Absolutely no. A completely pointless exercise. As there can be no standard for such a thing. As people have so many, very different ways of filing things. It like suggesting that we all use the same folder tree for filing on our computers. Our relationship to keywords and their meaning will change.
Take Brad Pitt, would you put him under Actor, celebrity or relative. His mum would file him under Son/Family.
What about places. I use UK, Europe, Asia, Africa...as top level domains. Now someone who lives in Japan would have Japan as home and the UK as Europe/UK. Some people may like to file musical acts by city of origin, others by genre, neither is wrong and both are correct for the right person. Being able to do both would be even better.
You just design a heirachy that suits yourself. Adobe just has to find a way of respecting that and allowing you to transfer that heirarchy intact between apps.
Someone else posted this example of heirachy. Which will work well for some, but not for others. Plus, in context of what you ask, remember everyone's family structure is different so how can you possibly have a 'standard' heirachy.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=98612897&size=o
In your example above, I wouldn't use Outdoor and Landscape as Landscape. As for my filing I simply do not have an inside and outside category. I probably wouldn't even have a landscape category either, I would file them under location in a heirachical tree like UK/Wales/West Glamorgan/Gower/Rhosilli/Headland. I may add Landscape as a key word, but would not use it as a category as the heirachy tree above makes more sense to me as I can remember where things are.
I also file everthing by date in my OS as I can remember when I took things reasonably well and that ensures I have a coherent filing system onto which I can apply a database.

How to revise keyword list new hierarchy

My present keyword list is just a list of words with no hierarchy. After exporting as a text file, it was noted that many single words have the brackets around them, e.g. [cat] rather than just plain cat. How did this happen? Can I delete my present list and import a "clean" list? How can I create a hierarchy with my present list? Reference to a tutorial or manual would be great. Thanks.

If you have a list of words with no hierarchy, such as the one below:
geography
Europe
Italy
Campagnia
Mount Vesuvius
Naples
Pompeii
and if you export the keyword list to a file, and edit the hierarchy as follows:
geography
    Europe
        Italy
            Campagnia
                Mount Vesuvius
                Naples
                Pompeii
everything would be fine if you did not have any photos associated to these keywords to begin with, but if all of the keywords in the flat list of keywords were already associated to photos, then after importing the keyword list, the keywords in Lightroom would appear as follows:
geography
geography
     Europe
         Italy
             Campagnia
                 Mount Vesuvius
                 Naples
                 Pompeii
Europe
Italy
Campagnia
Mount Vesuvius
Naples
Pompeii
That's because Lightroom stores the full path of a keyword hierarchy when that keyword is associated to a photo.
Based on the above hierarchy, the keyword "Pompeii" can be associated to a photo in the following ways:
Pompeii > Campagnia > Italy > Europe > geography
or
Pompeii
So if you already had photos that had the keyword "Pompeii" associated from the flat list of words, this keyword is different from the keyword "Pompeii > Campagnia > Italy > Europe > geography" and there would not be any photos associated to this last one.
All this said, if a hierarchy is to be changed, it is best to do so within Lightroom itself, by drag and drop, and not by doing an export/import of the keyword list.
Also note that when considering keyword hierarchies, it is best to only assign the keyword that is at the bottom of the hiearchy to your photos, as the ones above will automatically be inherited.
As for the brackets around keywords when you export a keyword list, they mean the following:
The square bracket [ ] around a keyword means that the "Include on Export" is not checked in the Keyword Tag options of the keyword; this keyword will not be included in the export of photos that have this keyword associated to them. The other special character used is curly brackets { } which define synonyms of a keyword. A hierarchy is simply defined by adding a tab for each level of the hierarchy.
Here's an example:
[geography]          - this keyword will not be included in exported photos (its purpose is just to organize the hierarchy)
    Europe
        Italy
            Campagnia
                Mount Vesuvius
                Naples
                Pompeii
sport                    - while this keyword is also for organization of the hierarchy,
                              it has more value and I decided that it should export with photos
    running
        3km
        5km
        first race
        half marathon
    soccer
        {football}          - this is a synonym for the word soccer
So the square brackets [ ] have nothing to do with the hierarchy; it simply indicates wether you want that keyword to be exportable or not.
Finally, a good use of the export/import keyword list is to add or remove these brackets, add synonyms to existing keywords, or add new keywords to the hierarchy, but NOT change an existing hierarchy or create one based on existing keywords.
Hope this helps!

How to write SQL query to flatten the hierarchy

Hi,
I have person table which has recursive hierarchy and I wish to flatten it upto 5 levels.
I am using Oracle10g and I have written following query to flatten the hierarchy
SELECT
ID,
level lvl,
REGEXP_SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (fname||' '||lname, '/'), '[^/]+', 1, 1) AS level_1,
REGEXP_SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (fname||' '||lname, '/'), '[^/]+', 1, 2) AS level_2,
REGEXP_SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (fname||' '||lname, '/'), '[^/]+', 1, 3) AS level_3,
REGEXP_SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (fname||' '||lname, '/'), '[^/]+', 1, 4) AS level_4,
REGEXP_SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (fname||' '||lname, '/'), '[^/]+', 1, 5) AS level_5
FROM cmt_person
CONNECT BY manager_id = PRIOR id
and level<=5
The person table have more than a million records.
Here I am getting the correct output but this query is taking a lot of time to run.
I am looking at a SQL query without use of connect by to get the required output.
To recreate the issue, you can use this query in HR schema of Oracle and use Employees table.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Raghvendra

I tried to rewrite the query without using regular expression and connect by. Here is the code:
SELECT
cmt_person.id ,
cmt_person.fname as mgr1,
case when cmt_person2.manager_id=cmt_person.id then (cmt_person2.fname ) end as mgr2,
case when cmt_person3.manager_id=cmt_person2.id then (cmt_person3.fname ) end as mgr3,
case when cmt_person4.manager_id=cmt_person3.id then cmt_person4.fname end as mgr4,
case when cmt_person5.manager_id=cmt_person4.id then cmt_person5.fname end as mgr5
FROM
cmt_person,
cmt_person cmt_person2,
cmt_person cmt_person3,
cmt_person cmt_person4,
cmt_person cmt_person5
WHERE
cmt_person2.manager_id(+)=cmt_person.id and
cmt_person3.manager_id(+)=cmt_person2.id and
cmt_person4.manager_id(+)=cmt_person3.id and
cmt_person5.manager_id(+)=cmt_person4.id
order by 2,3,4
I got following output:
emplo000000000200100     Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Rajesh
emplo000000000200099     Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Ajay
emplo000000000200101     Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Swati
emplo000000000200320     Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Jinesh
emplo000000000201231     Bobby     Khasha     Test123
emplo000000000201230     Bobby     Khasha     User1_Domain
emplo000000000201227     Bobby     Khasha     User1_World
emplo000000000200104     Bobby     Khasha     Yitzik     Natalia
emplo000000000200103     Bobby     Khasha     Yitzik     Andrew
total 9 rows
But this is partially correct output. I want output like this:
emplo000000000200097          Bobby
emplo000000000200087          Bobby     Khasha
emplo000000000200102          Bobby     Khasha     Yitzik
emplo000000000200103          Bobby     Khasha     Yitzik     Andrew
emplo000000000200104          Bobby     Khasha     Yitzik      Natalia
emplo000000000201227          Bobby     Khasha     User1_World
emplo000000000201231          Bobby     Khasha     Test123
emplo000000000201230          Bobby     Khasha     User1_Domain
emplo000000000200098          Bobby     Khasha     Rahul
emplo000000000200099          Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Ajay
emplo000000000200100          Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Rajesh
emplo000000000200320          Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Jinesh
emplo000000000200101          Bobby     Khasha     Rahul     Swati
total 13 rows
Do you know what I should do to get this output.
Thanks,
Raghvendra

Questions about keyword hierarchy

I'm in the process of designing and building a keyword hierarchy for LR3.5, and I'm at a loss to understand a couple of things.
In the process of deciding how to build this, I've looked at a number of hierarchies people have posted to the web. One thing I've noted is that people sometimes have the same word in multiple hierarchies, and sometimes the same word as both a regular entry and as a synonym. For example:
Architecture
      Building
          Church
                  {Cathedral}
          Cathedral
          Skyscraper.....
Cities
      Building
      Cathedral....
So what happens if I use the keyword building?
I *think* what will happen is that LR gives me a choice of selecting Building>Architecture OR Building>Cities. Is that correct?   Is there a way to get Building, Cities AND Architecture? What happens if I select Cities? Do I get ONLY cities, and none of the lower level keywords?
And I'm at a total loss about synonyms. If, while applying keywords to an image, I select the synonym {Cathedral}, under Architecture, what keyword(s) get assigned to the image? What if I select Church? And what if I select Cathedral under Cities?
Many thanks.

Thanks web-weaver.
I posted basically the same question in a couple of other places, and got conflicting answers. And the information I found on web searches tended to explain HOW to set up a hierarchy, but not how it really worked, and information on synonyms is especially limited, and often conflicting. So I did some tests. So as to not use any words that were already in my keyword list, I built a simple hierarchy of words not currently in use:
Colors
    Blue
        {Cyan}
        {Azure}
    Red
        Pink
                        Salmon
        Rose
    Green
        {BRG}
        {Emerald}
    Cyan
    Orange
Fruit
    Orange
    Apple
(I actually had a couple of other trees, but this is enough to demonstrate how they actually work.)
And it turns out synonyms don't work quite like I expected them to, and are, honestly, so limited I question their value.
Test1: Tag a photo with the keyword Cyan. Only Cyan gets applied to the metadata, not any of the words associated with it (Blue, Colors, Azure). Searching, I can find the image by searching on Cyan, or Colors. But NOT by searching on Blue.
Test2: Tag a photo with the keyword Blue. Only Blue gets applied to the metadata, not Cyan, or Azure. When searching, I can find it by searching on Blue, or any of it's synonyms (Cyan, Azure), or Colors.
(I had expected synonyms to work the other way, I think. So that if I searched on Blue I'd get all images tagged with Blue, but also those tagged with Azure and Cyan. )
Test3: Tag one photo with Cyan, and another with Blue. Searching with Cyan gets me both images, as does searching with Colors. Searching on Blue gets me only the image tagged with Blue.
Test 4: Tag a photo with the word Colors (and nothing else). I find it by searching ONLY on colors, not Blue, Cyan, or Azure.
Test 5: Tag a photo with the word Red (and nothing else). I find it by searching on Red, or Colors, but not Pink or Rose.
Test 6: Tag a photo with the word Pink (and nothing else). I find it by searching on Pink, Red or Colors, but not Salmon.
Test 7: Tag one photo with Orange->Color, and a second image with Orange->Fruit (this nomenclature seems backwards to me, btw. It's really Fruit-Orange and Color-Orange, but whatever...) Searching on Orange finds both images. Searching on Color finds only one, searching on Fruit finds only the other.
Synonyms affect only search, and not tagging (assignment). Searching on a term that is a synonym will find images tagged with the main word. (e.g., search on Azure and you'll find Blue, but not Colors).
On another site someone replied that when you search you'll find "any image which bears that keyword or any keyword BELOW it in the hierarchy." That's backwards, at least as I understand the word "above.". You'll actually find images using the keyword, it's alias, or any word ABOVE it in the hierarchy. So if an image is tagged with Red, you can find it by searching on Red or Colors, but not Pink. If the image is tagged with pink, you can find it with Colors, Red or Pink, but not Salmon.
The worst limitation of using synonyms is that when you're tagging an image, LR3 isn't smart enough to know the synonyms exist. So if I tag an image with the word Azure, LR3 doesn't substitute Blue, or use the synonym where it already exists in the hierarchy. Instead, creates a new, top level entry named Azure, not tied in any way to the alias or the "Colors" tree.
It seems like it would be useful to be able to enter Blue as a search term and find any images tagged with Azure and Cyan. Or enter Red as a search term and find Pink and Rose, too. The way it's implemented now forces you to enter the term you're most likely to use (Blue, for example) at the bottom of the hierarchy, and the least used words above. Or to use synonyms, and hope you never get confused an enter a synonym as a keyword instead of the word it refers to.
It seems to me it's more useful to just use Azure as another keyword beneath (or maybe above) Blue in the hierarchy. At least that way if I tag an image with Azure, I'm not creating a new entry in the Keyword list. I'm not sure I see much value in synonyms as they're currently implemented, but if someone has some examples of how synonyms benefit them I'd be delighted to see them.
Hopefully this information will be of use to someone.

Keyword Hierarchy Suggestions?

I've just imported about 6000 photos from iView MediaPro and I'm pondering how I should go about creating my keyword hierarchy. Obviously "People" is one good top category, but what about the others? Are there any standards out there to use? I'd like to do this right the first time.
What are others doing? Post your tips here!

Yes, IPTC fields for Country, State, City, Location, can be used for searching, but have limits and weaknesses in assigning the metadata.
IPTC metadata are *intended* for use in describing individual photos to consumers of images (e.g news publishers) who receive them *already* tagged from owners/creators/licensers of images (e.g. photographers, wire services, etc). and not intended for organizing/searching archives of images (though used, to some degree, for that). Certainly some photographers will use Lightroom to apply IPTC descriptive fields, but in Lightroom, IPTC metadata location fields have limits and problems when used for searching/organizing:
1) If not done via Import, it seems you have to manually type in each of those IPTC fields after selecting the images to which to apply the metadata values. LR does not seem to allow drag/drop between selected images and Metadata panel items. Unlike IPTC location metadata, user-defined keyword hierarchies for automatically assign implied parent category tags, e.g. putting an image in "New York City" in a keyword hierarchy automatically puts in NY, US, and North America if you set up your own state, country, continent tags. For assigning metatadata for location and other purposes at the same time, this can be tedious when all the pics are not all the same subjects taken at the same place, same date & time, etc. Not all LR users are PJs who shoot an assignment and upload only that assignment's new images at one time. Many new users or LR will assign metadata to thousands of old images that may not share much metadata at all. Being unable to drag and drop IPTC metadata can make IPTC fields tedious to use.
2) IPTC location metadata does not have fields for every possible type of location tag that users might want to use in a geographical hierarchy, such as Continent, County/Parish, District, Subdivision, etc. For example, if organizing images for a real estate multiple listing service, the IPTC data is inadequate.
3) No canonical definition, spelling, or form of the IPTC fields are enforced by Lightroom. You can put free-form text into IPTC fields including misspellings, and thus hurt your ability search (remember, IPTC metadata is descriptive, not intended for organizing/searching). Once you define your own tags in a keyword hierarchy, you don't have to worry about definition, format or spelling; you just assign from the list of pre-defined tags by drag/drop.
Bottom line: Hierarchical taxonomies are very powerful for describing and searching archives, but descriptive IPTC metatdata does not have the most important features of hierarchical taxonomies for organizing and searching. Lightroom's user-defined keyword tags provide those most of those important features, though still weak in a few areas.

Export keywords hierarchy

I would like to export the whole keyword hierarchy for the photos I export but I can't find a way to do it.
For example, if I have
a
--b
-----c
d
e
f
--g
-----h
and a photo keyworded with b, e and h I would like the exported image to have the keywords:
a, b, e, f, g, h
I can do this with FlickrExport but I can't figure out how to do it using the standard "version export".
Does anyone know how it can be done?

The first image is a screen capture of a throw away image in PSE 7. The second image is a screen capture of MS Pro Photo Tools and the Vista Image Properties/Details for the same image. There are two hierarchies created in Lightroom and exported as Lightroom hierarchies: Places/National Parks/Glacier and Wildlife/Birds/Clark's Nutcracker. The keywords show up as a flat hierarchy with each keyword separated by a comma in PSE 7 and by a semicolon in both Pro Photo Tools and the image details. I have not been able to find a way to get PSE 7 to respect Lightroom hierarchies.
I would be particularly displeased with Adobe to learn that the Windows version of Bridge does respect Lightroom hierarchies now that Adobe is offering Bridge bundled with the Mac version of PSE 8 but sticking Windows users with the Organizer

Problem with Keyword Hierarchy Export

Hello All,
I've noticing an issue with keyword export in Lightroom 4.0 64 bit Mac OS. In 4.0, as compared to 3.6, when I select uncheck the "Include on Export" box of a parent keyword not only is that keyword removed from the exported keywords but all parents keywords above it in the heirarchy. For example if my keyword hierarchy is as follows:
Animals
     Vertebrates
          Reptiles
               Turtles
                    Black River Turtle
In Lightroom 3.6 if I was to unckeck the "Include on Export" box of Vertebrates the exported keywords would include:
Animals, Reptiles, Turtles, Black River Turtle
While if I was to do the same the keywords would be:
Reptiles, Turtles, Black River Turtle
Has anyone else exprianced this problem or does anyone know how to return the export behaviour to that of 3.6.
Thanks

According to this (See B. Warde's response in the thread) http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/keyword_options_no_longer_available_ in_lr4 this was a behavior that was incorrect in 3.6 that has now been fixed.

Exporting picture with only the bottom of a keyword hierarchy

Hi,
I am exporting my pictures to be shown in a wordpress blog. I set up wordpress in a way to use the meta data. I have a hierarchy for people "People > private > Paul". What I get now in wordpress is the flattened hierarchy. What I want to see is "Paul". Is it possible to achive this somehow? The checkboxes do not seem to do the trick.
Thanks!

If you only want the bottom (last) keyword to be exported you'll have to setup the keywords higher up the hierarchy as non exportable. Right click the containing keyword and choose Edit Keyword from context menu.
Also, make sure that the Export window option to write the Lightroom keyword hierarchy is unchecked.

Keyword hierarchy confusion???

I'm getting very confused with regards to how a keyword hierarchy behaves on export.
For example, let's say I have the following hierarchy;
People
            ^Family
                       ^Joe Bloggs
If I tag a photo with 'Joe Bloggs', I would expect keywords 'people', 'family' and Joe Bloggs to be exported, correct?
Now, for the confusion...
In the keyword options for 'people', I have 'export containing keywords' checked. Does this mean that all photos with the keyword tag 'people' will also have keywords 'family' and 'Joe Bloggs' added to them???
I have tested this, and it doesn't seem to be the case. So what is the purpose of 'export containing keywords'???
Any help would be much appreciated!
Many thanks,
Martin

I'm getting very confused with regards to how a keyword hierarchy behaves on export.
For example, let's say I have the following hierarchy;
People
            ^Family
                       ^Joe Bloggs
If I tag a photo with 'Joe Bloggs', I would expect keywords 'people', 'family' and Joe Bloggs to be exported, correct?
Only if that's what you want. If you set up the keywords so Joe Bloggs has "Export Containing Keywords" checked, and Family has "Export Containing Keywords" checked, then the export has them all. But you can set it up other ways, so in other setups only Joe Bloggs gets exported.
In the keyword options for 'people', I have 'export containing keywords' checked. Does this mean that all photos with the keyword tag 'people' will also have keywords 'family' and 'Joe Bloggs' added to them?
This makes no sense to assign "Joe Bloggs" to any photo that has a "People" keyword, and in fact this will not happen. There's no set of options that would cause this to happen.
So what is the purpose of 'export containing keywords'???
To enable you to control what keywords get exported, and what keywords do not get exported.

How to integrate BW Hierarchy into Webi?

Hi Everybody,
I need to create a report based on 0FIGL_V10_Q0001 in Webi and this query has a hierarchy and i have created the hierarchy from the designer itself. In webi, when i tried to pull 1 of the hierarchy dimension with key figure, it shows no data but if i remove the key figure i can view the information. May i know what went wrong with it or do you have a details on how to integrate BW hierarchy into Webi?
Your assistance on this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Best Regards,
Hizam

Hi,
use the following link:
https://sapmats-us.sap-ag.de/download/download.cgi?id=SOTBBWVP5VS0BRNUJFQWYL5A6L3GXGPDJ59UKUDZMA1UVE1WOQ
(should work properly in about 10 min)
- merge the regsitry file to your BusinessObjects Server
- Restart the Services via a restart of the Server Intelligence Agent
- re-run the report with keyfigures
You should see 2 logfiles being created on the C:\ root folder
attach the logfiles to this message (do not copy past the content).
I assume the underlying BI query works fine.
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How to change keyword in many pictures at the same time?

I gave a big series of pictures the wrong keywords. Now, I can't figure out how to change them (besides one by one...).
If I select e.g. 10 pictures in Library-mode, how to change keywords on them all at the same time?

Make sure you are in Grid View, primary monitor (if you have two), select 10 pictures and type (or delete) the keywords in the Keywording panel in the left upper corner.
Make sure the Metadata->Show Metadata for Target Photo Only is unchecked in the menus. Otherwise your edits will only apply to the primary selected (most selected) image.

How to delete the Hierarchy data from Infoobjects.

How to delete the Hierarchy data from Infoobjects. In my case I had 300 records in the corresponding table of info object.
When i was trying to delete the hierarchy data, I am getting error message. "Some master data not deleted". Can any one tell me to delete all these records by using a program.

Hi
Go to SE11 and enter the hierarchy table name.
/BIC/H....(infoobject name)...and execute the table and select table entry and delete all....
Thanks
TG

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