Advanced Search with operator and logical

DxO PhotoLab Feature requests
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Hello folks!

PLB is great but a nice feature could be to enhance search engine with mutliple arguments and operator:

  • raw >= 1200 iso && size < 4000 pxs
  • NOT (=< 400 iso || exposure time > 1/500) && from project MyProjet
  • devices Z6 && Z8
  • aperture > 4 && flash =True
  • key word Berlin || date.year = 2023 || not brand Nikon
    etc etc

Second option:

  • Sync option to read/write key words (manage conflict) from/to xmp properties ?
  • sync data from/to files properties and/or exif ?

Could it be possible?

Thanks

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See here for previous discussion:

3

Thanks. Sounds like the same but I would like to add :
operators (=, >,< ,=<, >=)
key word in the filter
combination with () as separator!

4

What you are asking for is a predicate builder. This requires slightly more than one small box for typing text into in order for it to be usable by non-techie types.

If I want to search for such advanced criteria, I use the search builder provided by Apple in their Finder on macOS. With that, DxO would have to write a wrapper around the mechanism. But that would not cater for Windows, which isn’t anywhere near as sophisticated in its metadata handling.

5

I’m working for a software company. You don’t need to use a proprietary method to enable a strong search tool.
If you check the DB using by DPL, (SQLLite), a table named ‘Metadatas’ contains already all datas need for an advanced search tool.

What DXO would need would be an implementation in the UI and I’m sure that’s not the easiest thing.

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You might be a software engineer. I used to be a consultant software engineer for over 30 years. But the majority of users are just photographers who don’t want to have to furtive with databases and code.

And, as I already said, macOS already provides a metadata search engine, with a codeless UI

7

Ok we are on a bad way. it is not a question of engineering position. I’m just explaining all data are already in PLB DB’s. No need macOS or WIndows for that. The job has been done on the backend. Now, the question is on UI side.

So back to the use case: :

Why an advanced search engine inside PLB?

For all those who want to automate their workflow, the first step is to get a list which RAWs should be involved foir each Deeep Prime process.
Ie:

  • I want apply DeepPrime XD/XD2s only on RAWs greather or equal than 2000 ISO
  • I want apply basic Deep Prime only on RAWs between 800 ISO and 1200 ISO.
  • No more Deeprime for other RAWs.

For that, I’m looking for each RAWs candidate then I could apply the right DP depending of the ISO.

The same idea applied to different scenarios should be also useful according to simple or combination of criteria.

8

Or you could do what most folks do and apply DeepPRIME to everything, regardless of ISO

9

DXO offers 4 DP settings, but are you saying that we don’t need them and that we should use a single DP setting for all RAWs?
Which DP setting? XD2s and increase export time by 2 or 3?

Seriously, this is just an example. It should be the same for different scenarios depending on the user’s needs.

It’s just a standard software tool.

Maybe you don’t need it and I respect that, but please let DXO provide an answer to this feature request.

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If that’s what you want, from long experience, try adding to the votes for previous requests, as provided by @Egregius.

DxO very rarely visit these fora and you can see the previous request dates from 2020.