julian70400
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2 years ago Hello, is this feature is planned ? It should be really great to be able, through Nextcloud interface (with the search engine), to find files from a metadata search.
It's really essential for us, we can paid for this.
It may be worth considering what the possibilities are of having the metadata this plugin reads and displays to be searchable through the Nextcloud web interface.[^0] My use case is as follows.
I have pictures spread across numerous folders. Those pictures have been managed with a picture management software (i.e. Digikam) and have had tags added to those pictures. It would be nice if this plugin could do one of two things.
Allow the metadata to be searched with the search bar at the top of the page. The end result would be that typing 'Name' or 'name' into tags window or the search bar would return all pictures tagged with 'Name' or 'name' or 'Pictures/Family/Name', etc.[^1]
Pull the metadata and apply it to Nextcloud. The end result would be that files which are read by this extension and found to have metadata that Nextcloud also utilizes, such as tags, would attempt to add the metadata found into Nextcloud such that they can then be searched. For instance, this might be possible with some kind of hook with the automated file tagging extension.
This request may be limited at the present time given that the Nextcloud tag system is still being actively developed (as can be seen by the number of issues open in relation to tags in the Nextcloud server code).
[^0]: See https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/17573 for status of tags on other Nextcloud interfaces/apps.
[^1]: This would be similar to this request: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/326, which has yet to be implemented.