Custom "Metadata Sets"

Version 1.0 has 5 pre-defined subsets of the metadata display in library in Addition to ALL.
There are a LOT of fields that I use only very rarely. And none of the pre-defined subsets include all the fields I use for nearly every image. SO, I would really like to see the ability to create 3 or 4 customized Metadata Sets that would facilitate entering/viewing the fields I want and not be cluttered with the ones I usually ignore.
Thanks,
Robert

Thanks for the response David.
I looked over the regex.info web page and will work with the program soon as I get a chance. Not as convenient as a function built into the program, but as good as we can get until Adobe incorporates something similar into LR.
Thank You very much for providing this.
Robert

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I've added a new metadata set that suits our needs, but it is not showing up as an option when creating a new production - is there some option that I missed in order to allow this, or is there a completely different process involved with creating a new metadata set for production folders? Can someone tell me what I missed or walk me through how to do that? Thank you!

Did you make sure to assign the new MD Set to Productions and not Media? If so there must be something else wrong with the way you set it up. Make sure the ID says:
paproductionyourmetadatasetname
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Sorry for this question but I'm new on lua and the LR SDK
I have the following problem:
I have a custom metadata set with two fields, eg:
1: Name, Type string
2: URL, Type url, readOnly: true
In the metadata tagset "URL" is hidden because it is empty and only "Name" is shown.
After an user has entered text in the field "Name" and pressed enter, an url should be generated and shown in the "URL"-field. The entered value from "Name" is a fix part of the "URL".
Is this possible without using a dialogbox?
Thank you for your help.

Hi,
IjonTichyTS wrote: I have the following problem:
I have a custom metadata set with two fields, eg:
1: Name, Type string
2: URL, Type url, readOnly: true
In the metadata tagset "URL" is hidden because it is empty and only "Name" is shown.
If you want the URL value to be permanently visible even when empty, you will need to modify its entry in the metadata tagset as follows:
-- Note: GPS would otherwise be hidden when no value exists
{'com.adobe.GPS', alwaysVisible = true, label = 'alwaysVisible'},
The default for alwaysVisible is false which is why the URL field will normally be hidden.
IjonTichyTS wrote:
After an user has entered text in the field "Name" and pressed enter, an url should be generated and shown in the "URL"-field. The entered value from "Name" is a fix part of the "URL".Is this possible without using a dialogbox?
I suspect you are looking for a way to attach an observer or have an action fire when you change the value of a field in a metadata tagset. Currently Adobe has not exposed that functionality in their SDK so you will need to work around this using approaches such as John mentions above.
Matt

Removing default Metadata set

I am creating very specific metadata fields, groups and sets for one of our clients. however, i cannot seem to delete the custom Metadata Sets, for example: 'Show' has no relevance to us, but I can create new sets fine. Please if anyone knows how to do this or know a good workaround, any help will be much appreciated.
thanks

Sure, FCSvr is highly customisable.
Having the default metadata there gives one options, you don't have to use it all. Only the admin should ever see it if setup correctly. You see it, ignore it and move on.
Or, I may be misunderstanding your question. Are the end users seeing a field you don't want them to?
I know you can delete certain fields - but backup your database first.
Even deleting a seemingly useless (to some deployments) metadata group such as Documents, can totally wreck the database.
You can install a custom metadata set which will require a lot of work to build from scratch. If you do want to go that route it will take many man hours to construct database fields, lookups, sets, etc.
Good luck.

How To Set Custom Metadata Programmatically?

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To build on John's reply, double-check that the metadata definition declares the field browsable and searchable, e.g.
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Check-in similar does not evaluate scripts in the "use defaultvalue" field, as it has to copy metadata values. However, you can add script to the "Is derived field" as well. Just don't use dprDefaultValue but dprDerivedValue=
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Hello. I have created a custom metadata xDAMAuthor. I have used it in a rule for check-in profile. Also have check-in a content by filling this field. Now the search form has this metadata as one of its field and I can search by using this field, also the search result returns the aforesaid content which I have checked-in. When I am looking into the SOAP format of the GET_SEARCH_RESULTS then that metadata is not there in the row of the SearchResults resultset. But if I see the SOAP format of the DOC_INFO of that content the DOC_INFO resultset contains that metadata. How can I solve the problem?
Note: In the Admin Applet->Configuration Manager->Information Fields, Enable for Search Index is checked for this metadata.
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the search result returns the aforesaid content which I have checked-in
And do you see you metadata in the results? I guess you don't. Unless you followed http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/doc.1111/e10797/c03_finding_files.htm#CIHEFHAI and created a custom search result template.
I am sure that GET_SEARCH_RESULTS have all the metadata from returned items somewhere (probably in a result set), but I'm not sure what's returned - it could be very well the row as you see in the browser. Therefore, you might tried to use your custom search result template in your call (in fact, I think for a user always the default one is used).
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Editing and sharing custom metadata/keywords through Adobe Drive in Adobe Bridge

I am part of a four-person video production unit operating within a local governmental entity. We are currently using four licenses of Adobe Master Collection CS5, and are about to get access to dedicated SAN storage.
We would like each user to have the ability to assign specific keywords to any given video clip (or remove keywords from clips) within Adobe Bridge, and have the three other users see the same results. I've noticed that Bridge alone will allow for keywords to be added or removed, but this list is specific to each user. Importing one list into other users' profiles is a start, but would no longer work, once keywords are added or taken away.
The overview page for Adobe Drive 3 says that it, "allows users to edit and view custom metadata/properties through Adobe Drive in Adobe Bridge," but I haven't found any explanation in either the website, forums, or user's guides that delves any farther into this area. If we incorporate Adobe Drive/Bridge into our workflow, will we be able to share/sync keywords between users? Is there some other (affordable) solution that would let us do this?
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing your case.
The keywords you mentioned is XMP metadata, if all your digital assets are managed by ADEP CQ DAM service, you can use AD3 with built-in ADEP connector to communicate with the DAM server, then, I think it can meet your requirement, it means, the keywords can be set by one user through metadata panel in Bridge, and can be viewed by other users.
for custom properites, it's different from XMP metadata, it refers to the properties of one asset which is managed by a Content Management service. users have to use another UI to edit/view them in Br after AD3 is installed.
here are some requirements to use it.
1) CMIS 1.0 compiliant server should be used to manage all your digital assets
2) use the built-in CMIS with AD3 to connect to the server.
if other kind of servers are used, you should develope a custom connector through AD SDK to enable custom properties feature as well as some other handler required by AD SDK
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How to hide custom metadata field in custom profies ??

hi,
how to hide custom metadata dropdown list in a custom profile based on choosing the security group.
ex: if i choose xxx security group, custom metadata dropdown should not appeared, for remaining security groups it should be visible.
so, Based on criteria, custom metadata should be hidden in custom profiles..
how to achieve it ?? where and how to configure ??
Detail guidance should be required
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You cannot do this through profiles alone if I understand you correctly.
If I load a check in page, choose a security group and at this moment want a custom metadata field to disappear then you are beyond what profiles offers.
Rules evaluation can only be based on information that is know at the time the page is requested. That means in order for this to work you would need to make security group an non editable field and have a set of profiles for each security group.
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Custom Metadata and the Filter Bar

A couple of month ago this was posted by another member/LR user:
I'm running Lightroom 2.3 on a WinXP system. I'm trying to use the library filter mechanism to display a subset of images based upon the values of some custom metadata fields.
All of the values for a given field are correctly displayed in the filter's drop-down list, but if I select one that contains embedded blanks, I'll get an empty set ("No photos in selected folder"). Take a look at the attached "embedded_blanks" screen shot. I should see one image, but instead don't see any. (BTW, an embedded underscore ['_'] will cause the same behavior, so there are probably other characters as well.)
There are also problems if I select the "No Value" option (which should show be the items for which the metadata hasn't been set). The attached "no_value" screen shot shows an example of this. Instead of showing 1 image, Lightroom is showing 4 -- all of the ones that do have a value!
Has anyone seen this before? I don't know where to check to see if this is a known problem.
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Jeff

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In Aperture3 are custom tags embedded in exported Versions or Masters. I have a task to embed matadata on 2000 items and need to pass on the information to someone who doesn’t have Aperture

I am not sure whether you really can embed custom metadata in the jpeg file itself. However you can quite easily export all metadata associated with a file in Aperture using AppleScript. The script below shows you how it works in principle with the different data categories in aperture: IPTC, custom fields etc. To adapt the script to your needs, replace eg "Photo Category" with the name of your own custom field. By copy/paste you can add more fields...
tell application "Aperture"
set tSelection to the selection
-- this is the header, not really necessary
set tValues to "Version Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "File Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Keywords" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Category" & tab
set tValues to tValues & return
--here starts the real stuff
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in tSelection
set tImg to item i of tSelection
--add Version name
try
set t to name of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add FileName
set t to the value of other tag "FileName" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add IPTC tag
set t to the value of IPTC tag "Keywords" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add a custom field
set t to the value of custom tag "Photo Category" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
--next line/image
set tValues to tValues & return
end repeat
set f to choose file name with prompt "Choose file name..."
set my_log to tValues
set mylogfile to open for access f with write permission
set eof of mylogfile to 0
write my_log to mylogfile starting at eof
close access mylogfile
end tell

Custom metadata fields?

I'm trying to find a way to create custom metadata fields so I can better organize my footage. For example, say I'm filming a bunch of old cars, and I want to sort them by make and model, obviously there's no make and model field by default. I've read articles that say this is possible, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. Thanks!
Edit: And related to that, is there a way to delete any of the metadata fields? Since I'm doing video, I'd rather not have to scroll through things like Album and Artist, etc. Thanks.

In the Metadata panel open the flyout menu in the upper right and choose "Metadata Display..."
Now you can turn off the metadata schemas you're not interested in seeing.
Now click the New Schema button.
Give your new Schema a name.
Now click the Add Property button next to your new custom schema.
Give it a name, like "Make", of type "Text".
Then do the same again for "Model".
Now you can select a set of clips all of the same make then enter what you'd like into the "Make" field and that metadata will be applied to the selected clips.
This is searchable, so in the Project panel you can search for the text you've entered into one of these fields and only clips containing that metadata will appear in the list (next to the search box Prelude reports "(filtered)" to let you know you're not currently seeing all of your clips.
I hope this helps!

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I want to create a custom metadata field of type Date. I want to make it mandatory and want to set its default value as system date.
I have already created field of type Date. What expression I should write to make system date as default value?
Because its a mandatory field, what would happen to existing content. Will there metadata get updated?
Thanks
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I want to create a custom metadata field of type Date. I want to make it mandatory and want to set its default value as system date.
I have already created field of type Date. What expression I should write to make system date as default value?
See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/doc.1111/e10726/c08_config_ref.htm#CSIDO710
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Searching Custom Metadata in Bridge - Urgent!

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Any help with the following would be greatly appreciated. I have created a custom xmp metadata panel that I am using for assets for a client. In Bridge, is there a way to use the Find tool to search for my custom metadata fields (as compared to the "All Metadata" search or generic metadata category searches)?
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