| Re: How to Index Files in Distinct Directory Paths Under a Single Index? [message #1875 is a reply to message #1838] |
Mon, 28 October 2024 17:01  |
foxtrotter
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FoxTrot Engineering wrote on Tue, 27 August 2024 12:01You can only index whole folders, skipping some subfolders (at any depth) you manually add to the relevant pane.
You can't skip from indexing files or folders based on their tag, but you can use tags at search time (this applies to files tagged individually; you can't tag a folder to mark all the files its contains):
- use the "by Tag" categorizer in the left pane to filter the found files
- or add a [tags] criterion
- or add a [then apply advanced filter] [tags] criterion
It would be really nice if Foxtrot devs could consider allowing users to specify indexing files only if they contained particular tags & keywords. For example, only index files with keyword "math". (For forum users who haven't been following this thread, by keyword I'm referring to metadata in files' XMP headers, and not the regular textual content one sees after opening a file.)
Notably, at the moment, Foxtrot already has the ability to specify indexing certain file types – for instance a user could choose to only index PDF files, and ignore all XML files.
Without the ability to specify a tag/keyword criteria when indexing, when I would like to search for, say, the word "affine" in my linear algebra material that's spread across two indexes, one of which just entirely contains linear algebra stuff (call this index1), and the other which contains a mix of stuff – cooking recipes, exercise tips, linear algebra (call this index2), I have to do two searches:
1st query:
Select _only_ index1. Run search query: "affine", no keyword filter.
2nd query:
Deselect index1, select _only_ index2. Run search query: "affine", keyword filter: "linear algebra".
And I'll have to remember, or figure out during query time, that the keyword to filter on in the 2nd query is "linear algebra".
The above search task could have been achieved with a single query with both index1 & index2 selected, and also without worrying about specifying the "linear algebra" keyword/tag filter criterion correctly, if index2 had undergone an indexing process where a keyword filter made it only focus on indexing linear algebra stuff.
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