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"Sean McLeod" <seanmcleod@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:CE8B8131-92A0-4023-B18C-EA67E7726557@microsoft.com...
> 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