New Knowledge-base Articles

[Mario]

Hello everyone,

I've written some new articles for the DAM knowledge base at photools.com.
If you can find the time, give them a read:

Streamlining Your Workflow with IMatch Categories: A Step-by-Step Guide.

How to Find Images with Ignored Faces

[Tveloso]

Looks good Mario...good articles.

I use "Workflow Tracking Categories", as described in the Streamlining Your Worflow... article, per advice that you have given here in the past - works great!  It really helps when I switch from working on one set of files to another, to keep track of where I am in both sets (or even within each set).

In the Ignored Faces article though, you switch to referring to Deleted Faces further down - including in the Text returned by the formatted variable - so in the resulting ScreenShot as well.  I wonder if that might create a bit of confusion...(should the variable return "Ignored", instead of "Deleted"?)...

[Mario]

Ah. Very good. Thanks for reading an finding my mistakes. Must be the  heat
I have fixed them straight away.

[user36]

I too like the 'Streamlining your workflow' article.

I tried to implement something similar some months ago but I failed.
My workflow is that ALL my photography is done in RAW and for 'keepers' I always have some processing in Photolab. The processed files are saved as jpg versions.
The difficulty is that these versions are (obviously) new files indexed by imatch and as such get automatically assigned to the 'NEW' category.
What I need is a method of category assignment which is conditional upon filetype. I could not find an efficient way to do this. I reverted to using 'dots' and metadata templates favourites to indicate the state of workflow. This works well for me but it does mean that I have to use formula based Categories.......which I believe to be expensive – as Mario would say 

[Mario]

What I need is a method of category assignment which is conditional upon filetype.

I don't see a way to do that. And IMatch has too many indexing options already

Do you use versions? If you enable category propagation and let the master propagate the workflow stage categories, the automatically assigned  workflow stage category (if any) assigned to the JPG will be replaced by whatever workflow category you assign to the RAW master.

You export a JPEG version in Photolab. IMatch finds it and adds it to the database.
Now you assign the 3. Processed to the master and the JPG updates to 3. Processed as well.

[user36]

Yes, I do use versions. Propagating the workflow categories works just as you say.

As an old colleague and mentor of mine once said about DataEase (a 1980's RDBMS) "this thing can do anything you want it to - you just need the ability to tell it what you want it to do".

Clearly, I lack that ability 

Many Thanks, Mario.

[Mario]

This again shows how flexible IMatch is - something that sets it apart from many "competing" systems.
If you like IMatch, tell others about it. That helps a lot.

I have added a paragraph explaining about propagation for workflow stage categories to the knowledge-base article.
Just in case there is another user with the same requirement.