Adobe Community: Message List - Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

Re: Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:20:46 GMT

I've fixed some more bugs (thanks everyone!). Documentation and download:

http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/anyfilter.htm

Re: Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:06:02 GMT

It's working great now as best I can tell so far.

Latest version 1.3 @2011-12-31

Rob

Re: Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:52:43 GMT

Rob Cole identified a couple of problems, including the problem with concurrent catalog access, and helped resolve them. You can download a new beta version here. Feedback greatly appreciated.

Re: Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:07:23 GMT

Wow! John - you've done it again!!!......

Re: Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:00 GMT

Also, there's a simple API similar to catalog:findPhotos (). Let me know if you're interested in trying it out.

Beta of Any Filter, a new search plugin

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:13:53 GMT

I finally found time to finish the Any Filter plugin, which provides search capabilities similar to Smart Collections but with many more searchable photo fields and many more operators for comparing fields. You can search over any photo field or setting that’s visible in LR and many that aren’t (for a total of 251), including IPTC Extension, GPS location, library properties, develop settings, and plugin fields. The additional operators include exact text match, matching regular expressions, distinguishing explicit from implicit ancestor keywords, treating text fields as numeric, and including other saved Any Filters and Smart Collections.

You can download the free beta here. If you try it, please give feedback about whether you find it useful, too complicated, what’s missing, what’s broken, etc. (a private message on the forum would be fine). I think the plugin pushes the limits of the Lightroom SDK, and perhaps it’s pushed too far?

There are many examples provided – see here for a list of examples and a list of all the searchable fields.