Re: [Tracker] Tags, metadata and date fields

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 06/04/10 09:16, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     However, I wasn't really able to find any information on how to get the
>     metadata into my index in the first place. Could you give me some
>     information where to start? Do I move the documents into a
>     tracker-watched folder and manually modify the database after the
>     documents have been indexed? Or do I explicitly ask tracker to add a
>     specific file with specific metadata to the index? Or do I add the
>     metadata as extended attributes of the file and put it in a watched
>     folder? Or something else entirely?
>
>
>   Check ~/.config/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.cfg file to know/configure
> what directories is tracker watching. Either you move your files to any
> of those locations, or you add your documents path there.

In addition, we added recently this command:

  tracker-miner-fs --eligible <file>

It will tell you if a file will be indexed and/or monitored.

>   Wait for tracker to index that folder (tracker-status should show the
> progress), and then run a query with:
>
>   tracker-sparql -q 'SELECT ?u ?f WHERE ?f a nfo:TextDocument; nie:url
> ?u. }'

You can also use tracker-search -t SEARCH (to list all documents and 
also to search using criteria 'SEARCH' for that document).

> tracker-info [tracker URL] and see what tracker knows about that file.
> Check that all the data coming from the file is there.
>
> Now, if you want to add more information (like your tags or some custom
> date), you need to insert it from your program in tracker. To do that
> there is a command line tool (tracker-sparql -u ) or by code using the
> DBus API. Here is an example in python. It contains more things, but it
> is not difficult to extract the bits you need:

For tagging examples also see src/tracker-utils/tracker-tag.c

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Regards,
Martyn