Filter View

The Filter-View of the android app "A Photo Manager" is used to find a set of photos by search criteria.

You can reach the Filter-View via

• tapping the filter symbol or filter menu in the Gallery-View
• tapping the filter symbol or filter menu in the Geographic-Map
• from any filemanager when opening a virtual album file '*.album'.

Note: While Extended App Pinning) is active potentially harmfull operations (i.e. this filter view) are not available

You can search by zero, one ore more criteria:

• Find searchtext: any photo that contains searchtext in path, filename, title, description or tag will be shown.
  • You can enter sub-expressons seperated by a blank " " (new in verson 0.7.0, #113)
    • Example if you enter Find="crete friday" you may find a photo that has tag="crete" and description="We arrived friday evening" (which contains "friday). "crete" and "friday" are sub-expressions seperated by " ".
• Path name: a combination of folders and photo file name
  • you can pick a folder with the "..." button.
  • you can enter a search pattern using the % as wildcard.
  • Example: searching for path "%kreta%" include these files
    • /mnt/extsd/media/photos/Urlaub/0709Kreta/Ausfluee/AgiosNicolaus/07Kr043.jpg
    • /mnt/extsd/media/photos/Maps/Kreta.jpg
• Date when the photo was taken. The first field is from-date the second field is to-date
  • you can pick a date range through the Date picker with the "..." button.
  • you can enter a start-date and/or a end-date in the format yyyy-mm-dd .
  • Example:
    • searching for date "2007-01-01" and "" will show photos taken since 2007.
    • searching for date "" and "2008-01-01" will show photos taken before jan 1st 2008.
    • searching for date "2007-01-01" and "2008-01-01" will show photos taken in 2007.
• [ ] public images and/or [ ] private Images
  • Public images are visible in any Gallery-app/Photo-Picker that use the android-system-media-database.
  • Private images are only visible in "A Photo Manager" if the in private images are enabled in the filter.
    • technically private images are filename.jpg files renamed to filename.jpg-p that get an additional TAG "PRIVATE".
  • In the edit photo properties (exif) you can make a public image private (and vice versa) by selecting Public or Private (new in version 0.6.3).
  • "Public" or "Private" can be stored in Virtual Album/Bookmark-filter-files and ".apm"-AutoProcessingRule-Files
  • See also #100
• Tags
  • [ ] With no Tags: if checked Images with no Tags are shown
  • +Tags Images that contain all these Tags are shown (logical AND)
  • -Tags Images that contain one of these Tags are not shown (logical AND-NOT)
  • you can pick tags with the "..." button.
    • tags marked with correspond to +Tags
    • tags marked with correspond to -Tags
  • Example: if you mark the tags 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".
• Rating: 5=best .. 1=worst or 0/null unknown
  • Example: if you select 2 stars then only images with 2 or more stars are shown
• geo
  • With no geo info: When checked
    • only photos without geo-infos are visible
    • input fields for latitude/longitude are hidden.
  • Geo Area where the photo was taken as Lat(itude north) and Lon(gitude east). The first field is from the second field is to .
    • you can pick a geo area through the Geographic-Map with the "..." button.
    • you can enter a start and/or a end valus in decimal degrees format.
    • negative values indicate latitude south or longitude "west".
• Last Modified when the photo was last modified (i.e. exif data was changed)
• or "Ok" button takes the current filter and updates the caller:
  • Gallery-View: to update which photos are visible.
• or "Cancel" button or the back button closes the picker without affecting Gallery-View.
• or "Delete/Clear Filter" sets all filter fields to empty which means "no filter".

Each field in the Filter-View corresponds to a field of EXTRA de.k3b.extra.FILTER of the Intent API.

Note: When you tab the history button at the end of an edit field you get a popup where you can select one of the 10 previous values.

Menu commands

• If you press the "Save Virtual Album/Bookmark as ..." menu you will be asked for the name of a Virtual Album/Bookmark file where the Current criteria will be saved to.
• If you press the "Load Virtual Album/Bookmark from ..." menu you can choose which Virtual Album/Bookmark file should be loaded into the filter fields.
  • If you long-press on a Virtual Album/Bookmark-file you get a contextmenu
    • Edit to load the selected Virtual Album/Bookmark-file into a text editor
    • Rename to change the name of the selected Virtual Album/Bookmark-file
    • Delete to delete the selected Virtual Album/Bookmark-file
• menu command details : show the sql that belongs to current filter plus the number of matching photos.

See also

• Walk Through: Gallery, Filter, Map, Folder picker
• Use edit photo properties (exif) to edit the properties (exif) of a photo.
• photo properties (exif): tags, title, description, ... from exif,xmp,iptc
• Issues related to filtering