hopeandlove opened this issue on Feb 03, 2016 ยท 10 posts
auntietk posted Thu, 04 February 2016 at 12:26 AM
You have no idea how much I was hoping I could say, "Wow! Thanks! This is great!"
However ...
It seems like they've added a date range to what was there before, but they've taken away the ability to search on a word and left us with only the ability to search for a specific artist.
The calendar function is difficult to use. When I typed in a date using the mm/dd/yyyy format, it told me I had to enter a valid date. Additionally, typing in the date caused the page to refresh before I'd even hit enter. As an alternative, clicking on the calendar to search for something that's five years old means clicking the back arrow on the calendar 60 times. Tried it again, and it worked fine. Once more, and it didn't function properly. I realize reporting random results isn't helpful, and the programmers ALWAYS think it means I don't know what I'm doing, but I can only report what happened, I can't explain WHY it happened.
I did a search with myself as the artist, gave it a date range and photography/portraits, and got what I asked for. When I took my name out and tried to search for ALL artists with photography/portraits in the same date range, it gave me only my gallery selection again, even though I left the artist's name blank.
Changed "Sort by Relevance" to "Sort Newest to Oldest," got a page that was sorted by relevance.
I've done several searches, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I put in all the criteria, hit "filter by dates," and I get a random sampling of something (who knows?) and all the search fields are blank again, so I guess I'm supposed to start over? Only so many times I'm willing to screw around with this, and I reached my limit.
Showing 20,000 out of xxx,xxx number of images tells me nothing, and I'm not sure why that information is displayed. Perhaps others will find it more helpful.
I can see from your screen shot that you brought up the page that displays the search boxes, but did you try using it? Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.
Thanks for the try, but I can't imagine how I'd be able to use this.
Tara
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa