Three questions about tags

[TigBuh99]

I wonder if there is a way to do a search for tags? Say I want to search for the tags "apples" AND "oranges". Or tags "bananas" OR "pears".

What if I want to search for "cherries" as a word somewhere in my database, but not the tag "cherries"? Or the opposite of this.

Also what if I would like to see all entries that do not have any tags?

[droidmonkey]

Here are some searches you can try:

1. Find entries with both tags: tag:apples tag:oranges

2. Find entries with either tag: *tag:bananas|pears

3. Just type in cherries to search the word, tags are not part of the default search fields. You can also explicitly exclude entries with the cherries tag using: !tag:cherries

4. To find entries without tags: !tag:*

More information: https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html#_searching_the_database

[TigBuh99]

Thank you for the hints. I tried them out on my database, but 1 and 2 don't give me the right answers. Number 3 works correctly.

Pity about number 4. I have to go through a large number of entries in order to find which ones don't have a tag in order to adjust them as I like. Well, at least I'll have to do it only once!

[droidmonkey]

Note that tags are case sensitive

[droidmonkey]

They are also exact match by default so apple will NOT match apples or Apple

[TigBuh99]

Thank you for the additional information. The only thing that I can think of is that one of my real case tags consists of two words. I put it in double quotes, like tags:"Fruit salad". I don't know if this makes a difference as far as the first case is concerned when both tags should exist for the result to be true. In my actual database I have 23 entries with the tags Fruit salad and apple and three entries with the tag Fruit salad only. My query tags:apple tags:"Fruit salad" returns 26 results. Shouldn't I be seeing only 23 results for the query to be correct?

Please note that if I search for the two words tag say, tags:"Fruit salad" I get 26 results which is correct.

[droidmonkey]

I cannot replicate your findings:

[droidmonkey]

Also I figured out your no-tags search, use !tag:*

[TigBuh99]

Also I figured out your no-tags search, use !tag:*

This is perfect for me! I have about 180 entries out of nearly 300 with no tags. This search term makes it very easy to trace them.

[TigBuh99]

I cannot replicate your findings:
Could you try it where one of the entries is tagged with a two words tag?
I uploaded an example. The password is 1234.
ForTesting.zip
I cannot get the OR term to work as for example *tag:orange|"Fruit salad". It returns no result but I expected to see Apples and Oranges.

By the way I found a mistake that I was making. There must be no space on either side of the vertical bar. I write this in case some other newbie makes the same mistake.

EDIT: Quick check. If you change the tag from Fruit salad to Fruit-salad and use it without the quotes, then the search *tag:orange|Fruit-salad works as would be expected.