Sean McLeod

Hi

I've been tagging a number of my images and performing some test queries
against them. I've been using a combination of:

- Windows Search UI via Start->Search the Index
- Windows Gallery GUI to select/mutliple select tags on the left pane
- Windows Gallery Search box

What I've noticed is that the Windows Gallery Search box doesn't accept the
same query syntax as the Windows Search UI. For example the following is
allowed in the Windows Search UI but doesn't return any results in Windows
Gallery.

tag:quinton tag:marcelle

In Windows Gallery this fails to return pictures tagged with marcelle or
quinton.

Typing just quinton by itself works, so it seems to match the text against
tags automatically and against filenames.

However I can't get this to work in the search box "quinton or marcelle" or
"quinton and marcelle". It's probably seeing the complete query text as a
single tag/filename.

Is there any documentation on the query syntax and options for the search
box in Windows Gallery?

Any reason it isn't consistent with regular Windows Search? I can understand
allowing shortcuts like not having to specify 'tag' but assuming it as a
default, but I think it should in addition support the Windows Search UI
syntax as well.

Cheers