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anatolk

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Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 14 Mar 26, 15:21

I am creating an album with fairly large number of images (2000+) where I cannot depend on names (images came from many sources -scans, many different cameras) and therefore time or date are not reliable either. I have to assign keyword(s) to each of those images. It became difficult to keep scrolling and find those images which do not have keywords yet.

Is there a way to order the images by keywords (in whatever order) with images without keywords being displayed either before or after those with keywords. (Maybe even view just those?) Can a script be written to do that?

Pointers will be appreciated.

RobM

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 14 Mar 26, 15:39

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Have you tried the keyword view? https://jalbum.net/help/en/jAlbum/Explore#Keywords

You could assign all objects with a temporary keyword and then remove that keyword as you add the required keywords. You could assign all objects without keywords a flag and filter by flag. https://jalbum.net/help/en/jAlbum/Explore#Filter_bar

davidekholm

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 14 Mar 26, 17:28

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Add a keyword view, see View->Views->Keywords view

anatolk

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 14 Mar 26, 21:29

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Yes, I am working in the Keyboard view.
If View -> Ordering had a selection "Keyword" that would solve the problem.

Assigning Temp keyword and removing it as I go along would work - just a bit of a pain.

View -> Views - Keyword view ... Would work if all the images without keywords were grouped as such, which was exactly what I suggested.

Thank you both!

davidekholm

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 10:59

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I'll put it on the todo to address this somehow

RobM

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 11:36

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anatolk wrote:
Yes, I am working in the Keyboard view.
If View -> Ordering had a selection "Keyword" that would solve the problem.

Assigning Temp keyword and removing it as I go along would work - just a bit of a pain.

View -> Views - Keyword view ... Would work if all the images without keywords were grouped as such, which was exactly what I suggested.

Thank you both!

If you add a custom view with the code

obj.keywords <1

that will show only objects with no keyword. You would then need to open the view, double click a thumbnail to show the object in explorer and then add your keywords. Every now and then refresh the view window to remove those objects that have had keywords assigned.

anatolk

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 15:18

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While I spent my professional life in software, and did fair bit of Java 20+ years ago - I was afraid to go into Groovy

and adding any code without knowing structure of obj. and all methods.

I used the Temp keyword suggestion and plowing though it.

Thanks a lot!

RobM

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 16:40

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anatolk wrote:
While I spent my professional life in software, and did fair bit of Java 20+ years ago - I was afraid to go into Groovy

and adding any code without knowing structure of obj. and all methods.

I used the Temp keyword suggestion and plowing though it.

Thanks a lot!

Groovy is essentially the same as Java, at least for most basic code likely to be used in jAlbum.
Have a look at

https://jalbum.net/help/en/JAlbum/Views
And
https://jalbum.net/help/en/JAlbum/Views/Custom_view_codes

anatolk

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 19:04

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groovy_error.jpg (529.8 KB)

OK - so you perked my interest

If it only was that simple:

obj.keywords returns string containing all the keywords not the number of keywords and therefore obj.keywords < 1 throws and error.

obj.keywords == "" will work.

davidekholm

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 19:43

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Just do

obj.keywords.length() < 1

davidekholm

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 19:48

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obj.keywords returns a string so you're actually checking if the string's length is zero. If you like to work with a set of keywords, then you can do:

obj.keywordSet.size() < 1

. "obj" is an AlbumObject by the way.

RobM

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Re: Group by Keywords should also group images with no keywords
Posted: 15 Mar 26, 20:10

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anatolk wrote:
OK - so you perked my interest

If it only was that simple:

obj.keywords returns string containing all the keywords not the number of keywords and therefore obj.keywords < 1 throws and error.

obj.keywords == "" will work.

Sorry, I missed of the .length() parameter. I tried it late last night and today I just typed it out.