Is there a way to search my images by description?

Hi, I am and admitted newbie so forgive me if this is something so obvious that any fool know it but...

I have several thousand images and they are currently in a single directory. It is possible for me to assign 'long descriptions' that have some meaning but I see no mechanist in DNN to allow me to search by description. Does CKfinder have any capabilities which would allow me to find what I need in this mass of images?

Thank

Thu, 03/31/2011 - 12:34

mkesicki

Joined: 28/10/2010

Posts: 348

Re: Is there a way to search my images by description?

Hi, in this moment there is no such option like search images by description.

Thu, 03/31/2011 - 21:44

whenry

Joined: 30/03/2011

Posts: 3

Re: Is there a way to search my images by description?

Thanks for your simple and straightforward (if disappointing) answer. Do you know of any other products out there that would do this? I know there are document managers available could one of them be used to meet this need ?

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 08:33

mkesicki

Joined: 28/10/2010

Posts: 348

Re: Is there a way to search my images by description?

Hi, no I don't know which file manager have this option. Try search on this forum .

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 21:24

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Is there a way to search my images by description?

Just a note why CKFinder does not provide this feature by default.
Storing description of images would require some kind of a database. CKFinder is a pure file manager, which works using only a file system.
Theoretically, it could be possible to add a functionality to search for a file using some meta data, but it would always require writing a dedicated plugin for each system, where such metadata is stored.

Wiktor Walc
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Fri, 04/08/2011 - 15:58

whenry

Joined: 30/03/2011

Posts: 3

Re: Is there a way to search my images by description?

Thanks for the replies guys. I do see the distinction between a file manager and the need for a DB . I think my confusion is that I am looking at using the CK tools with DNN so the database is of course there. But I can understand that your product need to be able to work in other environments.

I do find it hard to believe that such an obvious need does not seem to be met in the DNN community. Anyone who has more than a couple of hundred images mus also be suffering from my problem but i cannot seem to find something that solves the problem..... Oh well

Thanks again for the answers