Submitted by KeithB on 2019/01/03 19:34
 I have a few questions/suggestions about the tags functionality of the live search, which isn't documented yet that I saw, other than "Live-Search: Tags are now shown as a column" in a version announcement.

1) the functionality appears to be either a tag search, or a text search,  Please confirm there's not the capability of searching for text "awesome" in all text fields, and simultanously searching for tag movie and tag 2017.

2) Is there any keystroke to take you to the tags area, or any keystrokes to help navigate or pick the tags?

3) if I do a "logical or"  tag search, it's kind of difficult to see the tags I've searched for. It would be a nice to have some kind of visual indicator. Right now, on logical or, I see the tag 2017 checked near the top of my list, I can right click to see I did a logical or, but then I have to scroll down the current 741 tags to eventually see the tag movie checked

4) Would there be any reason to not have it be a subset of the normal tags pane? I wouldn't mind the show item count and the sorting by headers capability.

Comments

I mainly use AND for live searching in Tags and the functionality is excellent.  In an AND search when you select a Tag the list of available tags shrinks to those which are different between the remaining Tags, i.e. the Tags which all the remaining Tags have and the Tags which none of them have are ignored, this helps narrow down the search and this functionality is better than almost all other programs.
 
When it comes to OR searching you cannot limit the Tags available to select on because it could be any other Tag, but I agree it would be useful to see what Tags have already been selected.  This isn't a big problem (for me) because for almost all the searching I do I use AND.  It is almost always the case that you want to narrow a search and not very often you want to widen a search.
 
As far as I am concerned the logical OR search could have been left out and the search would still be just as useful.