Search/Filter for <selitems> ?

[eil]

probably it me, but i'll say as i feel = why it's so difficult to operate with selected items?? i needed a way to check selected items to have tags/labels, in here highend was very kind to spend time and provide few variants, but still it's not really what was desired.
i spend hours reading through Help about Filter(), Multi-branch-view, get('SelectedItemsPathNames', '|') and all of these aren't giving a hand
i tried to make a var with paths for MBV -it doesn't support files in address line; var with "compilated" parameters for Search -again no "use selected as field"; Filters are flat and allow only file names(no nested paths).

please, spirits of XY, help me if there is a way! or maybe it's time for some command to get upgrade?(i found some similar wishes were stated in past)

[highend]

but still it's not really what was desired.

It does what was asked for. It informs the user if any selected file or any file in a selected folder contains a tag, label or comment. If you don't like it in a window, let the script switch to branch view and use selectitems or put them in a paper folder and display that.

[eil]

i don't have complains about your script highend, i myself said text could be used and thankful for help. but after numerous variants(mine too) i see tab display as better variant -allows to see color for labels and do some action about files(not just list of text). but i can't get it to work without over-smart ways. yet i remember Don not once stated proudly about "optimized search: database first everything then" -so for me not obvious why no simple way to check?!

[highend]

Again, put them in a paperfolder? It even shows color labels (but ofc no subfolder structures). Filtering on a branch view would also work but it can lead to unwanted matches if more files with the same name exist. There are pro and cons, decide...

[eil]

for the moment paperfolder() is the only visually good way but i can't get a full list of selected paths(all sub-dirs/files included). i understand there probably should be recursion here, but with which command?!

add: did it! but it's a horror how one should twist brain to get such almost everyday-needed info

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  $item = ""; $tags = ""; $sub = "";
    foreach($item, get('SelectedItemsPathNames', '|')) {	//getting initial selected paths
        if (exists($item) == 1) { 						//if files
		if (tagitems( , , "$item") != "") {$tags = $tags . $item . "<crlf>"; }	//checking files for tags
	}
        else { if (tagitems( , , "$item") != "") {$tags = $tags . $item . "<crlf>"; }	//if folders
			$sub = folderreport("items", "r","$item" , "r", , "<crlf>");		//getting all sub-items 
			foreach($item, $sub, "<crlf>") {
				if (tagitems( , , "$item") != "") {$tags = $tags . $item . "<crlf>"; }	//checking folder sub-items for tags
			}
	}
    }