bhcho wrote:what I want to do is to query by, for example, "CMOS" from the regular ome-xml meta data.
Currently, much of the metadata is not attached directly to the image. I've opened
http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/ticket/2953 as a place to discuss future changes.
Since you will be writing your own search bridge, however, it is certainly possible to start adding values there, and that code could then be refactored into the larger codebase when it's working for you.
And actually I attached an external xml file to an image, and I queried by "Bob", which is written somewhere in the xml file, but I dont get any retrieved image.
Hmmmm....we'll have to do some debugging there. Can you look in the Indexer-0.log file(s) and see if the Image that you attached it to was in fact parsed? If yes, could you attach the xml file here so I can try to reproduce what you're (not) seeing?
Cheers,
~Josh.