Today’s Question: In your March 3rd newsletter the writer was looking for a way to search additional Metadata fields. I believe John R. Ellis’s Any Filter plug-in will search on at least the Person Shown field. Are you familiar with this plug-in?
Tim’s Quick Answer: I am indeed familiar with the Any Filter plug-in for Lightroom Classic and highly recommend it. It was an oversight on my part to not mention this plug-in in the March 3rd edition of my newsletter.
More Detail: The question I addressed on March 3rd related to the ability (or lack thereof) to search based on the Person Shown and Additional Info fields that are part of the IPTC Extension metadata schema. As I explained in my original answer, those fields (along with many, many others) are not searchable even with the “Any Searchable Field” option on the Text tab of the Library Filter bar in Lightroom Classic.
However, these fields (and many others) are searchable through the use of the Any Filter plug-in, created and updated by John R. Ellis. You can learn about this plug-in and download a free 30-day trial here:
https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/anyfilter.htm
My failure to mention this great plug-in was simply a “forest for the trees” issue, where I was so focused on the direct question I was addressing that I didn’t broaden the scope of my answer to include an option that made the intended search possible. Thank you, Kathy, for bringing this oversight to my attention!
