On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 08:16 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:23:41 +0200 > Christian Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This topic is discussed frequently, one of the last threads was > > “Film roll vs folder” starting on 2015-11-16. Film rolls are > > related > > to file system paths, each film roll will hold a subset of images > > of > > a folder. Therefore, you would need a copy (or link) of the image > > in > > several folders, and even then, the edit history would not be the > > same. One could argue about other methods for collections, but I > > guess at the moment tags is probably the closest you will get. > I did see that and I asked because P. Shanahan said: > > > > > A "film roll" is a *collection* of images whereas a folder is a > > directory, a storage structure. > but from everything else, they look to be the same. > > What I'm trying to do is: > > 1. Collections > 2. Virtual copies but each belonging to different collection
It sounds like you want a similar feature to 'virtual collections' in LightRoom where you can add images arbitrarily to a user created collection. In my experience, DT does not support this functionality. I get round this by using tags, where the tag is your 'virtual collection'. You can use the 'collect images' panel on the left hand side to select all images with a given tag. Virtual collections would be a really useful feature in DT, but looking at the database structure I can imagine it's a fair amount of work to implement, and that's assuming the developers want to do so! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold | IT Security Analyst | University of Manchester | IT Services | T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 | M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 | E: [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
