CAN'T APPLY KEYWORDS

Question

Hello,
I created template Keywords, checked keywords, saved, select All pictures, append metadata,
and NOTHING happens, I am showing "multiple values", thanks

Answer 1

Hi Margieannejulie
You already have the keywords panel in view according to your screenshot. You are using the default 'essential' Workspace which to my opinion is next to useless but you can easily create and save your own workspace by dragging the panels in size or move them to another location. The lines between columns and panels can be used to change the size and if you click and hold a tab you drag the panels. A horizontal blue lines means between two other panels and a surrounding blue line means adding as a tab to an existing panel.
Bottom right in your screenshot is the panel keywords.
Under other keywords are your present keywords in italic, meaning they are not persistent in your keyword list that by the looks of it is also the default one.
Top right of the keyword panel is a small menu icon. when you click on it it shows a few options. Amongst them New Keyword. If you name this keyword Syrian you can add sub keywords to this keyword.
Either by using again the menu icon or while with your cursor on the new keyword right click on it and from the menu choose new sub keyword. This adds a sub keyword to Syria that acts as the parent keyword.
Now you can choose to either create more sub keywords for Syria or add another sub keyword to nest in an existing keyword.
For example you have all images made in Syria which obvious would be the parent keyword because all files are made in this country.
Then you can divide the subjects to your own wishes. Let's say you have some opposition fighters with Kalashnikovs in Aleppo that would make a set up like this:
Syria
     Aleppo
          Syrian opposition fighter
               Kalshnikov
This is a keyword with 3 nested sub keywords. In Bridge preferences under Keywords you can set the option to automatically apply parent keywords which to my opinion can be quit useful because it means when you click on the last nested keyword it also auto selects the above keywords. In this case it would mean you select all images of fighters with Kalashnikovs in Aleppo in the bridge content window. Now you only have to click on the keyword called 'Kalashnikov' and automatically the other keywords Syrian opposition fighter, Aleppo and Syria are also selected and applied.
The pro's of having such a set up instead of all keywords in one template is that you can narrow your search better. If you create other sub keywords under Syria (for instance with children) and you do a search for Syria both the images with children and the fighters will appear as a result. But if you search for the keyword Kalashnikov only the ones with fighters showing guns will show in the result.
I hope this makes sense
So take some time in creating a good keyword tree having good main keywords with many sub keywords. Then select the files you want them to apply to and click on the most nested keyword you want to add and the miracle happens.
You have to take care letting Bridge do all the caching once the activity bar bottom left starts running. Because if you click on another keyword while the previous process in still going on it will start the new job before finishing the old one. Resulting in not having all keywords applied which shows by a minus in the square instead of a checkmark (when all files have the same word applied).
It seems a lot of work but once you know the principal it is fairly easy. The little extra effort you make at this point will be paid back later on when you have a lot of files in your archive and need to find just the view files you want to have. 
Also be sure to regularly export the keywords list for back up purposes.