Caption function in InDesign CS6

I have been playing with the Caption function in InDesign and cannot get a handle on it.
Is there a discussion or video that might help me?
In InDesign, I go to enter a caption for my picture.
Object / Caption / Caption setup.
It says it is looking for a piece of metadata called "Name".
I go to Adobe Bridge to enter the metadata for this image. There is no field called "Name" (or at least I have not yet found it).
Should I use "Title"? I added my caption text as the "Title" in Bridge
Relinked the photo
I went to Caption Setup and chose Title instead of name, told it to use my "caption" paragraph style. I'm not sure how the before/after function works.
I do not see the text either in Caption setup or anywhere else.
I tried to Generate Live Caption and what appeared under my picture is "<No intersecting link>"
Huh?
My goal is to keep the caption together with the picture when exporting to accessible pdf, or ebook, or Kindle.
Coaching, please?
Thank you,
Joyce

I usually use the Description field in Bridge (although you could also use the Headline or Title fields:
Then in the Caption Setup, I select the same attribute.
The Caption frame needs to touch the picture. If it does, it looks like this:
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