Image Search for Four branches Genealogy
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Standard Image Searches
The standard search action will search for the complete search string you enter
Currently in addition to the complete search string there are some special search codes available:
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r:<nn>
This will search for the <nn> most recent images.
Here the term ‚recent images‘ is used by the gallery, i.e. it looks for the images with the most recent image dates (image dates as given by the image exif data).
Example: r:15 will search for the 15 most recent images. -
l:<nn>
This will search for the <nn> last uploaded images.
When uploading, the gallery will automatically incremented picture ids = pid.
Example: l:15 will search for the 15 last uploaded images independent of their image date. -
g:<nn>
This will search for all images in gallery <nn>.
By default this search option is only available for logged in users.
Also by default, it will even list excluded images. As mentioned above, the gallery is only listed if this gallery is not being excluded by webmasters settings.
Example: g:3 will list all images of gallery 3.
Advanced Image Searches
Standard searches only search the complete search string. In contrast to this advanced searches search for a free combination of search strings.
You can use any combination of search strings including special codes.
Advanced searches can also use the exclusion operator“ -& „.
Not all formally possible advanced searches are meaningful if combined with special search codes:
Finally, the search operators ‚&‘ and ‚-&‘ can also be used at the beginning of the search string. However, ‚&‘ at the beginning will have no effect, as it does not change anything (the following search term will be searched anyway).
Complex Image Searches
The symbols “ & “ and “ -& “ refer their search to all search fields (title, description, filename and tags), the following symbols
Complex searches can use any order of combining symbols. By also including empty search strings or only blanks the complex searches can become quite tricky.
The symbols can also be used at the beginning of a search string, in that case only without a leading blank.
In principle you can also search for an empty search string. However, an empty search string is contained in any search field, so this does not make much sense. There is only one exception coded when an empty search string is restricted to tags:
Operator ‚&t‘ will search for images having ANY tags and ‚-&t‘ will search for images having NO TAGS at all.