Search

Daminion’s powerful search feature enables you to search catalogs quickly. You can perform a search in the active catalog directly from the search box in a catalog toolbar, or you can perform a more detailed search using the Find command. The search function is not case sensitive and includes catalog set names, media fields, and annotations. You can search using options including all media, System, General, Image, Description, and Music.

Search Quickly search the active catalog. Learn how to search catalogs using the Find Command. Learn about saved searches. Familiarize yourself with Filter by Tags function.

Contents 1 To quickly search the active catalog 2 To search catalogs using the Find command 3 Saved Searches 4 Filter by Tags

To quickly search the active catalog

• Use the search box to perform a search directly from the active catalog

To search catalogs using the Find command

1. On the Catalog menu, click Find, or press CTRL+F.
2. In the Find items in field, enter the search term in the field.
3. To refine your search, use the choices from Append Condition to specify particular file characteristics to search for. Type the word or words that you want to search for in the search box.
4. To customize the results of your search, choose one of the following options from menu:

• Contains
• Starts with
• Does not contain
• Matches
• Does not match
• Is not empty
• Is empty

Saved Searches

The saved searches feature enables you to save a search along with the criteria for future use. To save a search, do one of the following –

1. From the Find menu, enter the search criteria along with the keyword and click icon.
2. Click Save as Saved Search. You will be prompted with a dialog box Save Saved Search As. Type the title of the saved search and press enter.

Filter by Tags

Daminion Tags Panel will help you to quickly identify and find your documents and media files.

See how quick and easy it is to compose complex search requests with the following sample:
Assume that you work for a design company specializing in architecture and landscape design. And you want to find “summer house” buildings that were built in London,Bristol or Oxford, and that have both “brick” and “metal,” but not “wood“.

Open a catalog and type in the “summer house” phrase in the search box. This word phrase might result in a large number of files. Let’s assume that you found 7,000 files about summer houses from our 120,000 file media library. So, you must further refine your search.

Check the necessary keywords on a Tags panel (Right Area) by holding your Ctrl key down.

A. Boolean Operations - And, Or
Once you select the second keyword, the “AND” label will appear. This means that only buildings that have both “ brick” AND “metal” will be located. Click on that label from the context menu and change it to “OR.” Now Daminion will find buildings that have either brick OR metal.

B. Exclude Tags From Search Let us exclude the wood buildings from the result. If you click and hold the left mouse button on the “Wood” tag in area #2, the small menu will appear (see screenshot). Now select the “Hide from the current set” menu option and all the wood buildings will be excluded from our request.

C. Add Extra Tags To Search Now you can add the city filter to your request. For some tags, you can use the “OR” option only (as in the case of the “Shown Place” tag, because usually only one location is shown on an image, according to the XMP specification).

That is it! The necessary documents were found in only a few clicks and a few seconds. But this is not the end: Your search requests can be refined even more precisely by the Advanced Search option and saved as Smart Tags for future usage. Finally, to reset your filter, click on the “Show All” button near the search textbox.