Numbers as keywords

[rotting2788]

Lightroom Version Number

6

Operating System

1. Windows 10

I have put the year 2019 in photos as well as Day 1 and have not been able to Search in the Keywords for these to bring them up.
Please advise how I search for such numbers.

thank you

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Why do you use keywords for this at all? Are these not digital images, but scans? Photos from a digital camera already contain all the date information you need, so you can filter on that directly without adding the year as keyword.

 

[Dan Marchant]

I have put the year 2019 in photos as well as Day 1 and have not been able to Search in the Keywords for these to bring them up.
Please advise how I search for such numbers.

Can you explain exactly what you mean by/do to search? It works fine for me Filter bar search by Text > Keywords > Contain > Keyword. Numbers are no different to any other keyword.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

You would have to use ‘contain words’, otherwise searching for ‘12’ (as a day, or the month) will also bring up all images from 2012. Maybe that is where it goes wrong? But anyway, like I said, you don’t need keywords at all to search for dates.

 

[clee01l]

Why do you need keyboards to search by dates?

Don't You mean "keywords" not "keyboards"? A date value in a keyword field is not a timestamp date but a string of characters that when read by the human eye could be interpreted as a date.