Tags

The android app "A Photo Manager" can use TAG-s as a powerful tool to find and group photos in a gallery view.

Example: Show all photos of peter at a harbour at night.

peter, harbour, night (and other words you choose) are TAGS that can be attached to photos.

Keywords, Categories, Searchterms, Descriptionelements or Virtual-Albums are synonyms for TAG-s.

Question: Why are TAG-s grouped in hirachies?

The TAG-s are grouped in hirachies to make it easier to find TAG-s that belong together.

Example

In the TAG dialog search for "peter"
The list displays "/people/family/peter"
If you short-tap on the "+" button only "peter" is added to the added TAG-s
If you long-tap on the "+" button "people", "family" and "peter" are added to to the TAG-s
with one search you get three tags which is usefull if you have many potential tags.

Where are TAG-s in the app?

The TAG Dialog is used in these Scenarios:

Usage: How to use/find/mark/add/delete Tagnames
Find/Filter: Example: I want to see photos of peter at a harbour at night
Edit Photo Properties (exif): Example: In Selected Photos add TAG-s peter, harbour, night and remove TAG "winter"

Usage: How to use/find/mark/add/delete Tagnames

The main part of the dialog is the List of TAG-s.
The TAG-s are organized and displayed similar to file-paths:
- Example: TAG "Holiday" contains the subtags "Beach", "Excursion" and "Habour".
- Example: the TAG "Habour" is displayed as ".../Holiday/Habour" because it is below parent TAG "Holiday".
If you long-tap on a tagname you get a context-menu:
- Create new TAG to add new childtag below the tapped parent TAG.
  - Note you can add more than one child TAG if you seperate them with ","
    - Example: if you long tap on "Holiday" and enter "Beach,Excursion,Habour" you will add three subtags below "Holiday".
  - Note you can add a TAG path by using path seperator "/"
    - Example: if you long tap on "People" and enter "Family/Peter" you will add "Family" to "People" and "Peter" to "Family.
    - Example: if you long tap on "Holiday" and enter "/People/Family/Peter" you will create root category "People", add "Family" to "People" and "Peter" to "Family. Note the preceeding "/" before "People"
- Rename rename the Text of the selected TAG.
  - optionally you can choose if you want tho change the TAG-s in the affected photos, too.
  - Note you can modify the TAG hirarchy via rename:
    - Example: Rename "Peter" to "Family/Peter" will insert a new hirarchy element.
    - Example: Rename "Peter" to "/People/Peter" will move "Peter" directly below "People".
- Delete delete the selected TAG.
  - optionally you can choose if you want to delte the child-TAG-s, too.
  - optionally you can choose if you want tho remove the TAG from the affected photos, too.
- Cut cut selected TAG with sub-TAG-s to clipboard
- Copy copy selected TAG with sub-TAG-s to clipboard
- (Paste) After cut or copy you can paste the TAG-s with sub-TAG-s below selected TAG.
In front of the TAG-path are marker buttons
- If you tap on a marker button you toggle the marker between on and off
  - If you long tap on a marker button the item and it-s parent items are selected.
    - Example: If you long tap on bookmark "/_demo/holiday/habour" then the TAG-s "_demo", "holiday" and "habour" are bookmarked.
or "Ok" button apply the changes.
or "Cancel" button or the back button closes the the view without applying the changes.

The List shows TAG-s that

match the incremental search edit field (in the example: contain "bea") or
that is bookmarked with or
that is marked with add or remove or
that is already included in at least one of the selected photos
In incremental search mode there is incremental search edit field: TAG-s that match are shown
In bookmark mode the incremental search and it-s result are hidden.
You can toggle between and by tapping them.

Find/Filter TAG-s

In "A Photo Manager" you can find photos via TAG-s through

the TAG-s-[...] button in the Filter-View
the TAG Filter menu or symbol in Gallery-View in non multiselection mode.

In Filtermode the checkmarks in the TAG list have this meaning

Images must contain all TAG-s that are marked with .
Images must not contain any TAG-s marked with
- Example: if you mark the TAG-s peter, harbour, night with and the TAG "winter" with then you will get all pictures of peter at a harbour at night that are not related to "winter".
TAG-s bookmarked with will not be removed by the search filter