I have been using smart albums to create trip specific albums, and everything was working great. I’m not sure when this changed, but the current behavior is not what is described in the docs. ‘+aaa, +bbb’ is not returning photos that have ‘aaa’ AND ‘bbb’, it is returning photos that have ‘aaa’ OR ‘bbb’. Search seems to still be working correctly.
For example, this search and this smart album have the exact same keywords set, but the album includes everything with ‘2022’ or ‘bahamas’, and the search returns only those with both.
Backlight search and the search in Smart Albums are not the same. In Smart Albums, search words are case sensitive, whereas in Backlight search they are not.
Could that explain why you’re not getting the results you’re expecting?
I’ve done some of my own testing and am seeing the same.
In a test smart album, I’m using “+Zion National Park, +autumn” and I get an album with images that have “Zion National Park” OR “autumn” as keywords.
I get the same results using “+Zion National Park, -autumn”
When I first created these albums, they worked the way smart albums are described in the documents, with the + operator meaning the keyword is required. I didn’t realize anything changed until I went to add a new album, but a few versions ago that functionality worked. I just don’t know how to roll back to an earlier version of backlight.
The issue that I have found stems from how multiple keywords are split. That issue goes back to Backlight’s 5.0.0 and I can not see how it ever worked correctly. I am working on a fix but it takes time as I need to go back to a working version of 5.0.0 and make comparisons with the behaviour of the current version and either undo whatever may have broken it or put in a new solution. I will update this thread when I have made progress.
Hi @kmlucy and @rod_barbee, I have found the issue and put in a fix. Can you visit the Backlight Modules page and click Reinstall for module-publisher? I’d appreciate if you can confirm that this restores the earlier behaviour.
