Importing and Arranging question

If I have an upcoming trip with several cities for several days, I want to import the photos so that it works the best for viewing a slide show during the trip. If I want the group to be able to view a slide show each night of either that day or the whole trip, how do I import the folders? I was going to have one trip folder then subfolders for each city. As such, how can I tell the slide show to include only the non-rejected photos for several cities in the viewing if I want to view more than just the one city?
Thanks
RR

Are Square 2 wrote:
Thank you both for your comments. I'm beginning to get a better handle.
Let me elaborate or what I already have. Much like the other post with 72,000 photos, I too have about 7 years of photos arranged in one main folder in the desktop (backed up nightly on-line of course) then within that I have a folder for each year like 2007 and 2008, etc. Finally within each year, I have a folder for each event named with "yymm " preceding it like "0805 Memorial Day". This way my wife can find photos similar to being in 3 ring binder on a shelf (even though she demands we have that too).
So I will eventually have one folder called "0909 Africa".
Great. Don't change your folder structure, and don't go moving things around. Make a mental commitment to use Lightroom tools from now on to find things.
So to best use the power of LR (which I have JUST been introduced to within the last week (where have you been all my life?), when I return to the computer at night from a day in the bush and import the photos, I should keyword them like Africa, Kruger, 09/19. Then if I want my slide show that evening for the group to include just that day I would filter for 09/19 or I wanted all the Kruger location shots, I would filter for Kruger, etc? Is this the fastest way to select only wanted slides for a slide show or to be printed, etc?
I never bother adding keywords for date/month/year, because photos have the date and time built in. You can search for photos taken on specific dates in the Lightroom Library search bar (or alternatively, I believe you can choose date as a criteria for smart collections). If the photos were scanned, and then the date and time is not in the file itself, then you could add the date to the file instead of making it a keyword.
You search using the search bar in Lightroom, which you can toggle on and off with the backslash (\) key. There, you can choose to search for text, attributes, metadata or a combination of these. Alternatively, you can set up a smart collection which does the searching as well.
If your search is for keyword only (not other criteria), you can also use the keyword panel on the right. Find the keyword you wish to search for, and if you put your mouse all the way over to the right of that panel a right-arrow will appear, click there.

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                       WHERE matnr = wa_mara-matnr AND
                             werks = wa_marc-werks.    " IN s_werks.
            IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
              " Save record in the database table MARC
              CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
                EXPORTING
                  wait   = 'X'
                IMPORTING
                  return = wa_return.
              wa_log-matnr   = wa_marc-matnr.
              wa_log-werks   = wa_marc-werks.
              wa_log-type    = 'S'.
              " text-010 - 'Material creation date has updated'.
              wa_log-message = text-010.
              wa_log-zzdate = wa_mara-zzdate.
              APPEND wa_log TO tb_log.
              CLEAR: wa_return,wa_log.
            ELSE.
              " Roll back the record(un save), if there is any issue occurs
              CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK'
                IMPORTING
                  return = wa_return.
              wa_log-matnr   = wa_marc-matnr.
              wa_log-werks   = wa_marc-werks.
              wa_log-type    = 'E'.
              " 'Material creation date does not updated'.
              wa_log-message = text-011.
              wa_log-zzdate = wa_mara-zzdate..
              APPEND wa_log TO tb_log.
              CLEAR: wa_return, wa_log.
            ENDIF.
            " Unlock the record from data base
            CALL FUNCTION 'DEQUEUE_EMMARCS'
              EXPORTING
                mode_marc = 'S'
                mandt     = sy-mandt
                matnr     = wa_marc-matnr
                werks     = wa_marc-werks.
          ENDIF.
Here's the question - why did this person enqueue and dequeue explicit locks like this ? They claimed it was to prevent issues - what issues ??? Is there something special about updating tables that we don't know about ? We've actually seen it where the system runs out of these ENQUEUE locks.
Before you all go off the deep end and ask why not just do the update, keep in mind that you don't want to update a million + rows and then do a commit either - that locks up the entire table!

The ENQUEUE lock insure that another program called by another user will not update the data at the same time, so preventing database coherence to be lost. In fact, another user on a SAP correct transaction, has read the record and locked it, so when it will be updated your modifications will be lost, also you could override modifications made by another user in another luw.
You cannot use a COMMIT WORK in a SELECT - ENDSELECT, because COMMIT WORK will close each and every opened database cursor, so your first idea would dump after the first update. (so the internal table is mandatory)
Go through some documentation like [Updates in the R/3 System (BC-CST-UP)|http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCCSTUP/BCCSTUP_PT.pdf]
Regards

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