Media Library Mode

Media Library mode is for browsing the files that you have added to your media library.

At the top is a drop down box which allows you to specify how to view your media library files. You can specify the following search modes

• All files in media library: The complete list of files in your media library is displayed
• Files with ANY selected keywords: Searches for files that have at least one of the keywords you specify
• Files with ALL selected keywords: Searches for files that have all of the keywords you specify
• Search text fields or content of files: Searches for files containing the text that you specify (e.g. within the file content or descriptions)
• Files without keywords assigned: Displays all files which you have not yet given keywords

To perform a keyword search of your files:

• Select one of the two keyword search methods from the top drop-down box:
  • "Files with ANY selected keywords" if you want to view files that have any of the keywords (Boolean OR)
  • "Files with ALL selected keywords" if you want to only retrieve files that have all the keywords (Boolean AND)
• Select all the keywords that you want the returned files to contain. For example, if you have a media library of car images, where each image has a keyword for its type, color and country of manufacture. If you have selected Red and Porsche and click on 'Match all selected' above it will return only red Porsches, if you choose 'Match any selected it will retrieve all images of cars which are red or are Porsches, e.g. red Hondas, red Lotuses, green Porsches and blue Porsches. If you want to exclude certain keywords you also depress the 'Not' button and choose the keywords to block.
• Hit 'Search' to perform your query.