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Library module Keyword search

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Many of my photos have multiple keywords attached to them. I would like to search for photos that ONLY had specific keywords and not any others. For example, suppose I have two photos as specified below:

Photo 1 - keywords ALPHA, BRAVO, DELTA
Photo 2 - keywords ALPHA, DELTA

If I search for ALPHA and DELTA, both photos will be selected. However, I would like to create a search where only Photo 2 is selected.

Thanks for any help.
 
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In the text filter on keyword use contains or contains all and type "Alpha !Bravo Delta". The "!" in front of Bravo means "Not" so to be selected the image must contain Alpha and Delta but must not contain Bravo.
 
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kevin.hamburger said:
Thanks for this tip, but what if there are many keywords I want to exclude? I'm surprised that Adobe doesn't have a "contains only" search option.
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The EXIF specification for the keyword field is a space for all keywords. You want to pick out one or two keyword phrases from a field that can contain many.

You can create a Smart Collection with multiple criteria with contains on one line and doesn’t contain on another. You still need to exclude all of the keyword phrases that you want to exclude

The problem is related to building SQL queries that run against the LrC database using human language description to derive complex queries.


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I believe ‘AnyFilter’, a plugin from John R. Ellis can do what you want and search for images that only contain these two keywords.
 
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Building on Johan's reply, here's the Any Filter query to search for photos containing ALPHA, DELTA, and no other keywords:

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Note the use of the criterion Explicit Keywords rather than Keywords, which will include implicitly assigned parent keywords.
 
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