First of all: Happy new year to the community!
I installed the 3.8 version on my Windows PC and…wow! darktable is getting better and better. Thank you!
Today I tried to filter the collection by date and time but couldn’t manage to filter a specific time range.
Lets say I want to find all images from August 2021 taken between 6AM and 11AM.
August 2021 is no problem but how can I add the time?
Thanks
Reading the manual may help : darktable 3.8 user manual - collections , section search pattern, and futhermore, there are tooltips.
Not sure if reading the docs/tooltips will really help here.
I’ve tried doing something similar multiple times and am not able to do so in a fast and easy way. The thing you run into is that the date-time format lacks a way to set only the time part (for as far as I’ve been able to figure out). The year is mandatory and everything else isn’t.
I do need to be honest here: @Pepe’s problem can be solved by creating 31 or-ed rules in the following form (using date-time taken)
[2021:08:01 06:00;2021:08:01 11:00] or
[2021:08:02 06:00;2021:08:02 11:00] or
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[2021:08:30 06:00;2021:08:30 11:00] or
[2021:08:31 06:00;2021:08:31 11:00]
First three would look like this:
This can be stored as a preset, which makes creating a new one somewhat easier though.
This works, but I find it rather cumbersome to be honest.
Did you try using wildcard character % for day ?
Yes.
The date format doesn’t seem to except this.
OK, then you are right, of course. I frequently use wildcards, but obviously have never used it for this special use case.
Thank you. This is a nice but bulky way.
I’ll play with this and see if this is not too distracting in my workflow.
Maybe one of the devs can point towards a more elegant way, if it exists.
It looks like this module only allows quite simple filters (mostly string-based). The ability to do more complex queries by writing actual SQL might be useful here (maybe even the ability to view/edit the SQL generated by the module). There’s some work in progress to refactor the collections module here. Might be worth making some suggestions/requests.