Filtering by Description

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1

I would like to create buttons that filter folders and files for words in the description. For example, if I tag files with "graphics", "audio", and "utilities", I want to be able to only display the ones tagged with "graphics" and hide everything else in the folder with a single click. I looked but can't find any instructions on how to do this, so could someone either explain or point me to the right thread?

Thanks.

2

When I want to filter files by their description, I'll turn on the Description column, and then simply click on the Description column header to sort the files by description. That's all it does, sorts by the descriptions, but that's all I need it to do. However if you then select the files (descriptions) you want, it would be simple enough to hide all the others by using the

Select HIDEUNSEL NOPATTERN

command. But if you do that, you might need to use the

Select SHOWHIDDEN NOPATTERN

command to show the unselected files again.

3

Go to Preferences / File Operations / Filters and create some filters like the one shown below.

Then create buttons like this:

Select NOPATTERN SHOWHIDDEN Select "Cow Files" FILTER FILTERFLAGS=hidenomatch

BTW, I seemed to have problems when using a wildcard for the description filter. If it doesn't work try using an exact string and turning off the "use wildcards" option, or try the regular expressions option.

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4

Is there any way to create a button that would prompt the user to enter a string, and would then filter on that string--not by filename but by description?

In other words, I click the button, type "cow" and the lister displays only those files/folders with "cow" in the description column.

I have been trying to figure this out, but I am very unskilled and have thus, had no luck.

5

Not currently, but you can do it with a bit more clicking by using the Find panel. (Tools -> Find Panel, then the Advanced tab.)

6

Darn, this would have been the closest thing to filtering by tag that I could have gotten via Dopus. I suppose I will wait for some sort of Integration between Dopus and a tagging application, like taggedfrog.