Keyword lookup, not match synonyms

[KimAbel]

This is a follow up from this discussion:

https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=3855.msg25824#msg25824

As my thesaurus is built upon a list of many species (species names as keywords) with taxonomic levels and the corresponding norwegian translation as synonyms, the keyword lookup would be a extremely nice tool with a little adjustment.

As it is now the keyword lookup works as Mario states

But that IMatch also searches synonyms when it tries to lookup a keyword on import is normal, it does that as a second chance lookup, after trying for a primary match on the keyword itself. This works best for all typical scenarios and works well for a year now.

So IM first tries to find a match in keywords (species names) and then in synonyms. In my case I can have many synonyms that are identical in many species. This makes the keyword lookup useless because IM would not know which species to select. Perhaps this is a good idea with hierarchical keywords, but with keywords and synonyms this is not useful.

If we got the choice in the keyword lookup to not look for matches in synonyms then this lookup would only find mathes in keywords and then adds the synonyms for the correct species. Hoppefully this is just to skip the second level chanse lookup as Mario describes it.

A second choice that would make the keyword lookup even more perfect is the choice to delete synonyms instead of adding synonyms.

The taxonomy is a contstantly changing list and with these two adjustments to the keyword lookup it would be possible to delete all the synonyms from the "old" thesaurus and replace the thesaurus with a new one (with the new taxanomy), and then import the new synonyms with the keyword lookup function. Since I am not the only one using IM5 thesaurus based upon taxonomy I guess that quite a few more would have use for this function. Part of this would also be useful for people using location tags as keywords and probably a few more that I havent thought about.

This would be a extremely useful tool when trying to keep my picture database of species up to date. Hope others can see potential in this feature request :-)

Kim Abel