Capture One should retain Advanced Search rules even when they are disabled or user switches between albums these rules are assigned to.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
I use several rules for filtering, but I have noticed that I have to recreate them after two actions at least:
restarting C1P with rules disabled
switching between albums
When there is only a basic rule like "at least 2 stars", this might be not that noticeable, but I use more and more complex filters and setting them up from scratch only because I switched to another album and back is getting burdensome, especially with more complex/hard-to-type phrases.
Current workaround
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?
None known; maybe saving as a preset and reloading every time would work, but I just recreate the ruleset for now.
I tried creating Smart Album out of a sample filter and creation went well, then I saw an option to edit it, changed the rules to select something entirely different, that exists, and... view was empty. Tried looking for an option to refresh, nothing. I went back to All Images view and... it was empty as well. After the test only manual albums and Capture Folder had any photos in them... Restarting the application helped, but that are several minutes of downtime just to learn, that something not only does not work, but generally entirely breaks access to photos, at least on 16.2.5 Windows.
Manually saving searches is a bit of hassle, when you change rules even several times per minute - is it really necessary to go through saving the ruleset equally frequently? Why can't this be saved automatically, so even if I introduce substantial additions and forget to save before switching to an album, I can continue working with the same selection after coming back?
Smart Albums are retained on a per catalog or per session basis.
In normal use, I would expect the current states of a session of catalog to be retained in a user settings file for recently opened instances. This would normally be for a number of recently used catalogs or sessions, not just a specific period of time.
THat seems to work well using a Windows system. I would be surprised if it did not work for Mac as well.
No, because one always needs to start from scratch. In old Aperture smart albums could be duplicated and then moved to another group/project and of course also be modified, but that's of course far too advanced for C1 programmers. : / Of course it helps to use smart albums in projects or groups. But honestly, as far as the DAM part of C1 is concerned I lost hope. No search for album/project names possible, selecting more than one album to move them into another project equally impossible: Good editor, poor asset management!
One part goes AI, the other remains in Windows 3 explorer behaviour.
I tried creating Smart Album out of a sample filter and creation went well, then I saw an option to edit it, changed the rules to select something entirely different, that exists, and... view was empty. Tried looking for an option to refresh, nothing. I went back to All Images view and... it was empty as well. After the test only manual albums and Capture Folder had any photos in them... Restarting the application helped, but that are several minutes of downtime just to learn, that something not only does not work, but generally entirely breaks access to photos, at least on 16.2.5 Windows.
Manually saving searches is a bit of hassle, when you change rules even several times per minute - is it really necessary to go through saving the ruleset equally frequently? Why can't this be saved automatically, so even if I introduce substantial additions and forget to save before switching to an album, I can continue working with the same selection after coming back?
You can save searches for future re-use.
Smart Albums are retained on a per catalog or per session basis.
In normal use, I would expect the current states of a session of catalog to be retained in a user settings file for recently opened instances. This would normally be for a number of recently used catalogs or sessions, not just a specific period of time.
THat seems to work well using a Windows system. I would be surprised if it did not work for Mac as well.
No, because one always needs to start from scratch. In old Aperture smart albums could be duplicated and then moved to another group/project and of course also be modified, but that's of course far too advanced for C1 programmers. : / Of course it helps to use smart albums in projects or groups. But honestly, as far as the DAM part of C1 is concerned I lost hope. No search for album/project names possible, selecting more than one album to move them into another project equally impossible: Good editor, poor asset management!
One part goes AI, the other remains in Windows 3 explorer behaviour.
You can create a smart album from an advanced search. Does that help?