Library Filter keyword sort

How do you sort (assending/decending) keywords in Library Filter Default columns? Lightroom 5.2. Mine begin with Z; I have seen others that begin with A.

Replace the Keyword column column in the Library Filter Bar Metadata browser with the Date column, click the upper-right corner of the column, and then select Sort: Ascending:
Now change the Date column back to the Keyword column, and it should be sorted in ascending order.
Appears to be a bug or design misfeature that the sort options aren't available in the Keyword column and that the Date options change the ordering of the Keyword column.

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Library filter keyword search odd results for containing keywords

I have a keyword tree Family>Smith>Peter. I used the library filter keyword containing "family". This produced a large list of images and in the keyword tag box I saw the word "Family" with an asterix. I deleted the family keyword from the list and save the metadata. i was epxecting my filter to show no photos but it still shows the same number. It would seem that althoguh no photo has the keyword "family" on it they still show up in the filter because they contain "peter" and this is a child of "family".
Is this normal behavior as extremely irritating as trying to rationalise al lthe parent keywords that have bene accidentally exported. If I only want photos where family is a keyword is there anyway I can do that?
Thanks Mike

The problem is I lable close family by name, but large family groups as "family". If I just want photos with large family groups I should be able to search by keyword "family" and only get images that have that as a tag. However I get these plus any photo that has any keyword that is beneath "family" in the hierachy. I have turned of the export function so an image with just "peter" does not show "family" under the "will export" keywords.
It seems the default search is by keyword and everything below it. Is there some setting that it will only return images that just contain the actual keyword asked for?
Mike

Using Windows 7 and LR 5 when I look at the Keyword List a certain keyword has 7 pictures but when I check the Library Filter with that keyword 350 pictures are shown which includes the 7 pictures that have the keyword. Why does the Library Filter showi

Using Windows 7 and LR 5, when I look at the Keyword List a certain keyword has 7 pictures but when I check the Library Filter with that keyword 350 pictures are shown which includes the 7 pictures that have the keyword. Why does the Library Filter showing pictures that do not match the query

Dan,
Here's what's going on in the catalog you sent me, "Joel & Caitlin's Wedding". There is the keyword "gwenn", which is explicitly assigned to 7 pics. But keyword "schwartz" has a number of synonyms, including "gwenn", and it is assigned to 25 pics. There is no overlap between the two sets of pics.
I discovered these two occurrences by doing Metadata > Export Keywords, opening the exported file in an editor, and then searching for "gwenn". I found two occurrences of "gwenn":
gwenn
schwartz
{gwenn}
From this, you can see that the keyword "schwartz" has 9 synonyms, of which "gwenn" is one.
The filter criterion "Keywords Contain gwenn" will match the 7 pics that are explicitly assigned the keyword "gwenn", and it will also match the 25 pics assigned the keyword "schwartz", because that keyword has a synonym "gwenn".
This illustrates the behavior I mentioned above: The criterion "Keywords contains x" will match against any of a pic's assigned keywords, any of those keywords' ancestor keywords, and any of the synonyms of the assigned keywords and their ancestors.
So LR is operating correctly here, if not in a way that's easy to understand.
It appears that you are using the synonyms of "schwartz" to represent individual members of the Schwartz family. A better way of representing family relationships is to have a parent keyword "Schwartz", with subkeywords for each family member, e.g. "Gwenn Schwartz", "Joe Schwartz", "Jane Schwartz", etc. Repeating the family name in the subkeywords has a couple of advantages. LR usually only displays the "leaf" name of a keyword, so instead of showing you just "Joe", it will show you "Joe Schwartz", helpful when there are a number of different people whose first name is "Joe". Also, if you ever export your pics to other software, it may not understand the LR hierarchy and won't show the parent keywords, so again it's more informative to see a keyword named "Joe Schwartz" rather than "Joe".

LR 3.2 crashes randomly when using keyword sorting

Anyone else have this problem? When I use the right arrow select to sort using keywords, LR crashes and shuts down. Any suggestions on what to do to prevent this?

When you use the "right-arrow" keyword filtering, Lightroom actually takes you to "All Photographs" and enables the Library filter with the keyword you have clicked selected in the filter. In other words, it's the Library filter that crashes your Lightroom, not the fact that you click the "right arrow".
I've seen many threads reporting Library Filter crashes:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2986231?tstart=0#2986231
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2954754#2954754
This started in LR 3.0 and was not fixed in LR 3.2. No fixes or workarounds have been found by other users, but the bottom-line seems to be that some images have some corrupt metadata that the Library Filter cannot "swallow". Some users were able to use the filter in certain folders, but never in others (that presumably have pics with "bad" metadata).
Try to enable the Library Filter with filtering by keywords in some of your top-level folders to check if it works in all/some/none.
I would advice all users that can consistently reproduce Library Filter crashes, file bug reports and send their catalogs with a clear description of the problem and steps to reproduce to the Adobe team ([email protected]) for inspection and possibly future fixes.

Open a SharePoint List item in Modal Pop up in SP 2013 fails after you filter or sort the list

Sorry for the long post. This has been killing me. I had this script working perfectly fine in SharePoint 2010 (online) and basically i have a source custom list (list A) with a hyperlink column and a Destination List with say title and my name.
Source List (list A) looks like this with these 2 columns
Title Test Link
A Link 1
B Link 2
C Link 3
Each of these links link to the actual list item in the destination list, so for example, link 1 is/sites/2013DevSite/Lists/Destination%20List/EditForm.aspx?ID=1
So basically i want anytime the Link are clicked that point to another list's item to open in a modal dialog and the script below worked perfectly fine in SharePoint 2010 (online)
<script language="javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language ="javascript" type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('a[href*="EditForm.aspx"]').each(function (i, e) {
// Store the A tag's current href in a variable
var currentHref = jQuery(e).attr('href');
jQuery(e).attr({
'href': 'javascript:void(0);',
// Use the stored href as argument for the ShowInModal functions parameter.
'onclick': 'ShowInModal("' + currentHref + '");'
function ShowInModal(href) {
SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog({title: "Edit Item", url: href});
</script>
All it does is find the href tags for that particular value Editform.aspx and the pop modal works in SP 2010 online. So the site page is designed in such a way there is a content editor web part with the reference to this javascript file and the sharepoint
list is right beneath it and this worked perfectly opening in modal windows in SP 2010.
Since migration to 2013, this is what exactly happens
1.) when you come to the site page, the modal works,
2.) If you filter or sort on say the Title or Test Link column in Source list (lets say you select the Value A), the script does not fire at all, if i hover over the hyperlink, the who hyperlink is shown and does not open the hyperlink in the modal pop up.
- This is important because i want to be able to sort on a particular item...
Could someone please let me know what am i doing wrong and why is this not working when i sort the list. Thanks for all the help.
Once again i am trying to open a sharepoint list item in Sharepoint 2013 from another list using Jquery

A ListItem has its own unique row id so in all likelihood, an insert with the same data will result in a new list entry. The Lists Web Service however, has an UpdateListItem method which will take an update request. [refer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/websvclists.lists.updatelistitems(v=office.15).aspx ]
There is another note in the conference (marked answered) to your List Item Update problem. Probably worth a try too. [refer
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bee8f6c6-3259-4764-bafa-6689f5fd6ec9/how-to-update-an-existing-item-in-a-sharepoint-list-using-the-wss-adapter-for-biztalk?forum=biztalkgeneral ]
Regards.

How to use path names for library filter?

Hi all,
I have been looking for a way to use the library filter functionality to show only images in a particular folder (or subfolder thereof). From the help pages [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WSAB7B303E-081D-4617-BF47-B4B8D3D49CC3.htm l] I found that the image path is included when you filter using 'any searchable field'.
However, I do not seem to be able to use a full path name, just the individual directory names. To give an example, I can locate files in c:\data\photos using 'contains all: c data photos', but this will also select images in 'c:\data\someotherproject\photos'. I have tried all combinations of slashes and backslashes, but have found no solution to this problem. Does anyone know what the internal representation for the path name is, and if it's possible to search for it?
Just to pre-empt the obvious answer: I know that you can simply click on a folder to show its contents. However, using the filter bar would be a more permanent selection of a working directory, which remains when you click on a collection, for example.
Thanks.
Simon

Sorry, I could have been clearer.
What I'm trying to achieve is the following. My computer contains photos by myself, my wife and others, organised in three main folders. Having them in separate catalogs isn't convenient, because we often have photos of the same event (outings, holidays). However, most of the time I only want to work on my photos, and my wife wants to work on hers. A directory filter would be a good and fool-proof way of doing things. I am currently using a special keyword to do this, but I must remember to apply the correct keyword when importing.
Adding a folder as a favorite only works to select that folder in its entirety. What I would like to do is to have a 'master' folder selected and then use Lightroom as I normally would (select folders, collections, etc) Filtering by path name would enable me to do just that - and it does, except that there are false positives due to not being able to enter a full path name.
A smart collection has the same problem: the 'Folder' rule doesn't seem to support paths. And even if it did, it's not possible to select two collections with a logical 'and' operator, unless you make a new smart collection for each possibility.
My current keyword workaround is functional, but slightly error-prone. And in any case, if 'any searchable field' includes the file path, it stands to reason that there should be a way to match that with the entire path. The documentation isn't clear about this, so I hope that anyone can shed some light on this.

Library filter presets not working correctly across catalogs

I am having a trouble with Library Filter Presets that are shared between catalogs. I like to set up presets that filter on specific keywords. For example, I have a preset called "Label - Project 365" which turns on the keyword metadata filter and searches for "Project 365".
All is fine and dandy from within the catalog in which I actually created the preset. When I switch to the other catalog, though, the preset does not filter for the keyword "Project 365". In fact, it turns on the keyword metadata filter but does not appear to select any of the keywords at all. If I click on the proper keyword in the metadata filter (in this case, "Project 365") and update the preset, then it works fine on this "second" catalog... but as a result it will no longer work correctly in the original catalog.
Has anyone else come across this behavior? Any pointers on how I might correct it? Thank you for your time.

A bit more information if it helps. When I look in the filter preset file itself, this is what I see. I really don't know how to interpret everything here. There is an entryt for "columnBrowserDesc" that contains an integer for "selections". Perhaps this is how it is identifything the keyword of interest? If that's the case, perhaps it may be the culprit. (And if so, I've simply run into a limitation that I can't do much about.)
s = {
    id = "691866C7-0E43-45D3-9E89-1D2762BA6ADE",
    internalName = "Label - Project365",
    title = "Label - Publish 365",
    type = "LibraryFilter",
    value = {
        columnBrowserActive = true,
        columnBrowserDesc = {
                criteria = "keywordHierarchy",
                selections = {
                    291,
        customLabel = false,
        filtersActive = false,
        label1 = false,
        label2 = false,
        label3 = false,
        label4 = false,
        label5 = false,
        labelOp = "any",
        minRating = 0,
        noLabel = false,
        pick = "flagged",
        ratingOp = ">=",
        searchOp = "all",
        searchString = "Cemetery",
        searchStringActive = false,
        searchTarget = "all",
        whichCopies = "<nil>",
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Library Filter Question

Within the Metadata Library Filter I often use the 'Treatment' tag to view just colour or just B&W images. I discovered that to give an image the 'Black & White' treatment stamp you needed to use the B&W section in the develop module. However I often use CS5 for my B&W conversion so my question is, is it possible to get this "Black & White' treatment stamp without actually using that aspect of the Develop module?
Thanks in advance guys

Unfortunately not.
Your black and white photos made in Photoshop, will be treated as "Color", even if they were converted to a grayscale "space" in Photoshop. And you cannot even change the treatment to "Black and White", because the treatment control is disabled for grayscale files. This is a little dumb.
My work around is to apply a "BW" keyword to these files, then use a smart collection with the following rule set:
Any of the follwofing:
Treatment is "black and white"
Keywords contain words "BW"

Dates not showing up in Metadata Library filter

I sometimes use the Library filter to filter pictures by date, which has worked very well before.
When using it today, I discovered that only 23 (edit: the 23 first) of 43 pictures taken on Oct. 26 would show up, and the pictures taken on the 27th and 28th didn't show up at all. In fact, those dates aren't even on the list - but there are 47 pictures from the 27th, and 53 from the 28th in the catalog. The missing pictures do show up when I remove the filter.
All pictures are in the same folder, all taken with the same camera and the same lens. I am not using any other filters, and in the unfiltered view there are no question marks, and the Metadata Status is Up to date.
I've tried Relaunch and Optimize, computer restart. Using version 2.5, Windows xp.
Has anybody else experienced this?

What dates do those images bear? When in folder view, with all one day's shoot in grid view, will they sort by date shot, by time imported, by name?

Library Filter behavior in Lr3 RTM

I upgraded to Lr3, and am pretty excited to be using the new version. There are a few minor issues I noticed relating to my workflow process, the biggest being the following:
In Lr2.x I was able to click a folder in the Dev module, and the Lib Filter would automatically filter by date. So, I could then go my Keyword List, choose a keyword, have the Library filter reset according to my chosen keyword, and then I could quickly go back to my folder/date view by then returning to the folder, etc... in Lr3 though, I can no longer do that. Now, if I Keyword filter, it retains those settings if I click back to a folder, forcing me to reset all my filter options at the top. Is there just something I am missing to fix this, or just an oversight in feature set?
Thanks,
cas

Thanks for the reply... that is very "not cool" as it will put a huge damper in my workflow. I used the hopping around between filters constantly, and this is just going to make things a nightmare for me. FYI, I did try the lock feature, and it didn't work as I expected.
Thanks,
cas

Library filter in Lightroom 3

Suddenly I can't search for keywords anymore in library filter. It's gone. I can still find my keyword tags to the right under keywording and keyword list. Were has it gone?

I made new ones under Filters Naming it Nyckelord (keywords in swedish) with 4 columns so I can filter out pictures. But I had this before. I imported all from Elements 7. Problem solved but I wonder what happended. Thanks all for helping!

WebPart: Display the search result in an spgridview with filter and sort

hi,
For explain more in details.
I need the search result in a table displaying some meta common in the different library.
I've to have the possibility to filter and sort the grid.
i'm trying to extend Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart
i can have the result from the textbox search with: SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(this.Page).QueryManager
My queryManager is populate in the method: CreateChildControls
I put the sample code i use. and in the populateData method, my querymanager is null while in the createChildContriol, it's correctly populate with : this.queryManager = SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(this.Page).QueryManager;
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Internal.WebControls;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls;
using System.Data;
using System.Xml;
namespace CustomSearchResultWebPart.CustomCoreResultWebPart
[ToolboxItemAttribute(false)]
public class CustomCoreResultWebPart : Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart
private ObjectDataSource objDS;
private const string ObjectDataSourceID = "gridViewDataSource";
private QueryManager queryManager;
private SPGridView gridView = new SPGridView();
protected override void CreateChildControls()
//here is correctly populate
this.queryManager = SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(this.Page).QueryManager;
try
LoadSearchGrid();
catch (Exception ex)
Page.Response.Write(ex.Message + " - " + ex.StackTrace);
//base.CreateChildControls();
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
base.OnInit(e);
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
base.OnLoad(e);
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
//gridView.DataBind();
base.OnPreRender(e);
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
base.Render(writer);
public DataTable populateData()
DataSet dtSet = null;
DataTable dtTable = null;
//here is my query manager is null
if (queryManager != null && queryManager.Count > 0)
XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument(); //We are using XmlDocument
xdoc = queryManager.GetResults(queryManager[0]);//xml returned by search
if (xdoc != null)
XmlReader xmlReader = new XmlNodeReader(xdoc);
dtSet = new DataSet();
dtSet.ReadXml(xmlReader);
if (dtSet.Tables.Count > 1)
dtTable = dtSet.Tables["Result"];
return dtTable;
private void LoadSearchGrid()
this.objDS = new ObjectDataSource();
this.objDS.ID = ObjectDataSourceID;
this.objDS.SelectMethod = "populateData";
this.objDS.TypeName = this.GetType().AssemblyQualifiedName;
this.objDS.ObjectCreating += new ObjectDataSourceObjectEventHandler(objDS_ObjectCreating);
this.Controls.Add(objDS);
gridView.ID = "_gridView";
gridView.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
gridView.Width = new Unit(100, UnitType.Pixel);
gridView.EnableViewState = false;
gridView.AllowPaging = true;
gridView.PageSize = 5;
gridView.DataSourceID = ObjectDataSourceID;
this.Controls.Add(gridView);
void objDS_ObjectCreating(object sender, ObjectDataSourceEventArgs e)
//e.ObjectInstance = objDS;
protected void gridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
//throw new NotImplementedException();
Do you have a sample that i can use or some tutorial?
thanks for your help

I added this in my class
public class CustomResultsDatasource : CoreResultsDatasource
public CustomResultsDatasource(Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart parentWebPart)
: base(parentWebPart)
View = new CustomResultsDatasourceView(this, GetType().Name);
public class CustomResultsDatasourceView : CoreResultsDatasourceView
public CustomResultsDatasourceView(SearchResultsBaseDatasource dataSourceOwner, string viewName)
: base(dataSourceOwner, viewName)
//make sure we have a value for the datasource
if (DataSourceOwner == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("DataSourceOwner");
CustomResultsDatasource datasource = this.DataSourceOwner as CustomResultsDatasource;
this.QueryManager = SharedQueryManager.GetInstance(datasource.ParentWebpart.Page).QueryManager;
And this in my customSearchResultWebPart
protected override void CreateDataSource()
//base.CreateDataSource();
this.DataSource = new CustomResultsDatasource(this);
How can i use queryManager in populateData?
thanks for your help

Removing the Library Filter

Remove the Library Filter
When you select a topic under the Keyword List and open it by clicking on the arrow the photos open with a Metadata dropdown list above it. If you the click on “none” it goes back to the complete selection. Is this normal?

1. Setting the Text search rule to "Contains Words" should eliminate the finding of "Clark"
2. Please read http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WSAB7B303E-081D-4617-BF47-B4B8D3D49CC3.html

LR4 library filter not turning off?

I'll apologize in advance, 'cause I suspect this is already in the forum, but I can't find it..........
Converted to LR4 last week. This morning, I started it, and went into the library. The open catalog has 31000 images.
The Library Filter is OFF. (the thing at the top of the thumbnails). The filters arse OFF (the filter thing below the thumbnails)
I select "All Photographs" in the catalog, and I get 0 of 31002 photos.
Pull down "View" and uncheck "Show Filter Bar" so now there's NO filter bar at the top of the thumnails.
STILL have 0 of 31000 photos
If I select a folder, I get those images. If I select a keyword, I get those images. BUT, if I select "All Photographs" I get 0 photos.
I presume there's been a switch or something changed in LR4 that's causing this. Can somebody tell me how to get this to behave the way it did in LR3?

Never mind. I knew I was a nitwit and finally found a discussion that says the whole "all photograph" thing is fixed in 4.1...........
Sorry. Moderator, if you can, you can delete this whole thing..............

Finding all additional categories in Library Filter

I am trying to work out if there is any way to extend the choices in the Library Filter pull down menus, or even the choices in the Smart Collection options.
I can only see a percentage of all the metadata fields available to me in those areas, yet I can put data into all categories in the Metadata tab on the right. I am in a work environment where I need to work with a team of about 4, and we receive photos from various sources, many of which have particular copyright restrictions associated with them. I would love to be able to filter by Copyright, but I can't. I can filter by Copyright Status, but that only has three pulldown options (Copyright, Public, Unknown).
I can see work-arounds to achieve the goal I need, like describing a particular set of keywords surrounding copyright, and using a smart collection to filter on mulitple keywords, but really, I don't want to go down this road. I want to have the Metadata associated with files as "right" as possible, as my needs for cataloging are only going to get more complex, and I want to make my house well, before I ask people to move in.
This is of course not only true for Copyright, but for many fields that can be manipulated through Lightroom, like Caption, Headline, some EXIF data. Lightrooms decision on which categories can or can not be filtered seems arbitrary to me. I had a quick look at a couple of other programs (Aperture, Bridge), and they seemed to have all the things in place to allow me to customize my filtering to any level of depth I need, but they are not nearly as elegant programs in other ways.
I see a lot of benefit to Metadata for Digital Asset Management for my group of four or so that are dealing with approximately 30,000 images. I work in a Government department, and I daily deal with requests like; "Quick, I need a shot of a Commercial, Lobster fisherman taken within the last two years, but it has to be North of <Town Name>, oh and make sure it was taken by this Department.". If Lightroom allowed me to filter by every category I can see on the photo, I would be a very happy camper.

I also agree, all fields possible should be exposed.
My particular interest is in using smart collections to validate that all my photos meta data adhears to my own rules including Copyright.
Alan

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