Custom Metadata View

Is there any way to change the display size of custom metadata labels in the inspector? I have created a bunch of custom metadata labels and given them names that are truncated when displayed in the metadata inspector. When I resize the inspector pane, the value boxes increase in size but the custom label names remain fixed in width (or # of characters). The result is that I can't see the full label. I can't shorten the label names for work flow reasons. Thanks!

I have attached a bunch of optional metadata field presets as a zip file. If you open any one of them in a text editor you can see how they can be modified to match your needs (i.e. line needs to be remarked out using --).
Send me a PEm for info
Edit: the closest to your requirements is named Exif + Image

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In A2, I had many custom metadata views that I could easily change via the Metadata-pane (now gone) in Prefs. depending on the type of workflow, customer needs, etc.
Now, if I'm limited to just 2, I'll have to go in and manually change the composition of A3's 2 views for each workflow. If this is the case, I see it as a big step backwards. This is the type of limitation that iPhoto often has, and flexibility is what I expect from a Pro-App.
I spent a great deal of time developing custom metadata views for various workflows so that I could align the various displays in Aperture to each workflow. What do I do now?

Just stumbled over this thread:
Yes, its the truth. There is no way to quickly change the display of Metadata in Browser or List View.
You can tell from the form of the Settings - Window (Command - J) that there is no way anymore. You have one Standard View, and one Extended.
Strange. I did not use it a lot, I always display pictures to customers with no metadata, except when we do a selection on site (and then its standard with only rating).
wok4

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I've created custom metadata views and presets for cataloging my images. Is it possible to export this metadata into an Excel spreadsheet as a CSV or TSV file? File/Export/Metadata exports standard metadata, but not my custom fields and entries. Or, is it possible to export XMP sidecar files and somehow import those into Excel? All that data is there somewhere within Aperture - please help me get it out and into a spreadsheet! Thanks.

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Hello!
Is there a way to display custom metadata text on the photo cells in Library View?
Thank you!

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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?
Thanks for any insight you might be able to offer.
Chuck

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
thanks

Custom metadata fields used in file name?

Hi,
Is it possible to add to the list of meta data fields that are used as tokens for file names?
I've been using Rob Cole's excellent custom meta data in the library module and now I want to use these fields to name the file during export...
While at it, is it possible to add the same custom meta data fields to the info view overlay in develop mode?
Cheers,
Bonny

1. Its possible an export filter (post-process action) could be defined that supports the custom metadata for export filenaming (Lightroom itself does not have any other hooks I'm aware of) - dunno if anyone's done that, yet.
2. I think not (see PM).
Rob

Get value based on column names for custom metadata field of Webcenter Content

In UCM, I created a custom metadata field of type Text. I then enabled optlist in that field. I populate values to the optList, I am using a View. The View has three columns. Let us call them ID, Key, Value. OptList displays the Keys in its list. I then create a Content (Content ID: MyContent) in Webcenter Content and choose values from OptList for my new metadata field (MyField).
From Webcenter Portal, I am populating a selectOneChoice with values of MyField in the Content ID: MyContent. Remember from previous step, the values populated in selectOneChoice is the list of values selected from optList field MyField. This optList is in-turn populated from View. After the user selects a value in selectOneChoice, in Javascript, I need to alert a message in this format "value chosen - corresponding value from View of optList that populates MyField"
I think an example will be useful:
Here is a View that I created in Configuration Manager applet in Admin Applets of Webcenter Content:
ID | State | Capital
1 | North Carolina | Raleigh
2 | California | Sacramento
3 | Illinois | Chicago
Then, I create a Custom Field (Name: MyField). MyField is an optList the values are populated from View created above. The internal value and display value are both State. Then I Check-In a new content with Content Id: MyContent. For MyContent, I select these values from OptList for MyField: {North Carolina, Illinois}.
In my Webcenter Portal application, I create a Content Presenter Taskflow. I configure it as a single item content presenter. I assign MyContent as Content Id. Then, in templateView, I get all values of MyField in MyContent and display them as selectOneChoice. I created a javascript function that would get the value that user selected in selectOneChoice. In the View created in Webcenter Content's Configuration Manager (above), there is a value corresponding to each value displayed. So, for the selected value, I need to get the corresponding Capital and display it in my alert message.
From Javascript, how can I get the value of Capital, given I have the value of State.

Hi.
The idea to achieve your requirement is next:
Create a helper manage bean that will be call as Map access: #{stateUtil['Calofironia']} (it will return Raleigh). This value will be get calling GET_SCHEMA_VIEW_VALUES IDC service using RIDC in your manage bean.
Pass the result of #{stateUtil['statename']} to your JavaScript function using <af:clientAttribute.../>
I hope this information help you.
Regards,

How to make custom Metadata accessible in Text Template Editor ?

Hi all.
I used Lightroom SDK to create a plugin generating custom set of Metadata (for LR5) to manage images as produced items (printed and framed photos).
In order to be able to create usefull lists of items, I would need to be able to print this metadata fields on contact Sheets.
This is the only functionality that prevents me from using Lightroom as a database for produced artworks, beeing able to manage exhibitions, stock locations, sales etc...
Guess this means I have to make those new fields accessible in the Text Template Editor that allows user to compose an aggregated text from various type of metadata for printing or slideshows.
But seems that only the original sets of metadata appears in Text Template Editor, not the one created by my plugin.
Is there a way to add this functionnality to my plugin ?
Thank you very much.

First let me say I have no idea what you mean by Text Template Editor.
mbrch wrote:
Is there a way to add this functionnality to my plugin ?
3 ways:
======
1. If metadata definitions are available in metadata provider module without running plugin initialization function (i.e. as on-the-fly compilable lua), then Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Viewing Preset Editor will support it. (this is the normal case, the other case would be if plugin init computes a global variable that is returned by metadata provider module instead).
2. You can edit a metadata viewing preset manually, by placing a .lrtemplate file in 'Metadata Field Lists' folder - in with your other presets (is that what you meant by text template editor?). - see example below.
3. Define a tagset factory for your plugin and return the metdata viewing preset options from the tagset factory implementation file - there are instructions in the programmer's guide.
Example below:
return {
   items = {
         formatter = "com.adobe.label",
         label = "File/Folder"
      "com.robcole.photoName",
      "com.robcole.folderPath",
         formatter = "com.adobe.label",
         label = ""
      'com.robcole.developSettings.ProcessVersion', -- individual develop settings can be included like this.
      'com.robcole.developSettings.CameraProfile', -- individual develop settings can be included like this.
         formatter = "com.adobe.label",
         label = ""
         formatter = "com.adobe.label",
         label = "Exif Metadata"
      'com.robcole.exif.AELockButton',
      'com.robcole.exif.ActiveD-Lighting',
      -- add more here...
      'com.robcole.exif.' -- "help" item - remove this item once you've got the hang of this...
   title = "Exif Select",
   id = "Exif_Select_382790710"
Rob

Help with searching custom metadata tags

I have written a Photoshop JavaScript for my employer which allows my users to enter custom information into metadata fields. My intention was to use Bridge to create a searchable asset management system for these files. However, I am running into several problems in allowing my users to search for images with the criteria that they are looking for.
My first thought was to create my own search dialog which then looks for files whose metadata matches the search criteria. I was able to do this and return an array of thumbnail objects, but to my surprise there does not appear to be a way to create a new window which shows these thumbnails? (without creating a new folder object and copying the files there which would tie up too many resources.)
My next thought was to create a custom namespace/panel for my metadata. This also works up to a point. I cannot seem to get my custom metadata fields to show up in Bridge's search or filter areas. I see the SDK example for creating search conditions for a custom node, but how can I modify search conditions for "normal" nodes (folders)?
I'm sure that many of you have run into these issues, there are several posts in this forum and others from people with similar questions. I'm not seeing much in the way of answers, however. Any information would be much appreciated.

I am no expert, in fact a total beginer with Bridge scripting.
I have also found that it a problem displaying the required thumbnails. To get around this problem I have used the label rating, changing all the thumnails I don't wont to reject.
IE:
var items = app.document.visibleThumbnails;
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++){
var md = items[i].synchronousMetadata;
md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/";
if (md.Keywords != "") items[i].rating=-1;
This will only show thumnails that do not have keywords so long as the view "Show Reject Files" is not ticked.
I suppose if you used the rating you could copy them into a field that you could restore from.
As for the sorting I haven't done much with that except this sort of code should work on custom metadata.
new SortCriterion("MyDateSort", "date", "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/", "CreateDate");
var mySortObj = {};
mySortObj.name = "MyDateSort";
mySortObj.reverse = false;
var mySortsArray = [];
mySortsArray.push(mySortObj);
app.document.sorts = mySortsArray;

Premiere Pro CC - How can I export custom metadata into Excel?

I'm trying to export custom metadata from Premiere CC into Excel. I can create the custom metadata and I've been using the following workflow to get it to excel:
File: Export: Batch List
This exports a .csv file but the only metadata I can produce is a fraction of metadata from the 'Premiere Pro Project Metadata' schema. Has anyone figured this out?
Many thanks,

I'm not familiar with Batch List exports, and I don't know of a way to export metadata as a CSV or other file adapted to Excel. The way I know to export metadata is as follows
Select clip in PPro's Project panel
File>Export>Media
in the Export Settings dialog, click the Media button
in the Metadata Export dialog, set Export Option to Create Sidecar Fiie.
In the Output File Metadata section, select the properties in your custom schema that you want to include (and deselect any others that you don't want)
Click Okay to close Metadata Export and proceed to encode.
If you change the extension from .xmp to .xml, you'll be able to open the file in any text editor--including Excel, but not in a tabular view.

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

Custom metadata in Spotlight?

If you open Spotlight using Ctrl+F, you get an interface for advanced queries. Under "Kind", you can select "Other..." and Spotlight opens a list of "search attributes". It's a long list but of course not complete.
Question: is there a way to add custom metadata attributes that can be read by Spotlight? I am willing to get my hands dirty with plists and such, or perhaps there is some freeware add-on that can facilitate this?
Here's the usage scenario:
1. I can create a new search attribute for OS X files -- let's call it "foo".
2. I can attach the value "bar" to the metadata attribute "foo", e.g. for the file "myFile.txt".
3. I can write an AppleScript that takes a file name as a parameter and returns the value of the "foo" attribute. I.e., I give it "myFile.txt" and I get "bar" as the result.
4. I can use spotlight to search for "bar" and get all files with this metadata.
5. (Optional) I can use spotlight to search for "foo:bar" and get "myFile.txt".
I have looked at a bunch of things on the Net (OpenMeta, SpotMeta, etc.) but I haven't found anything yet that will do this.
Any suggestions?
TIA

Why not just use your hypothetical attribute "foo" (so long as it is unique label) as tag your files in the Spotlight Comments. Then Spotlight will find all files with this "attribute". But best use another nonce word like "foophotosofmydog" that will be completely unambiguous.
I am searching for alternative to Spotlight since, under some peculiar circumstances, the tags become "transparent", i.e. you cannot view them by command-I, but they are still searchable. Consequently, the Comments are scary to me just now.
HoudaSpot appears to be an alternative, since it allows tagging of files using OpenMeta that can be searched b Spotlight, but at I cannot see any native way to create real meta tags in OS X.
-j

Searching custom metadata

Hello all,
I have logged a bunch of footage using Adobe Prelude CC and have tagged my clips with custom metadata on ingest. I can search for and filter my clips as expected within Prelude but, upon sending the clips to Premiere I loose that ability. I can see that the custom metadata has indeed transferred over to Premiere via the metadata window but I cannot search and filter as expected.
My two thoughts are I have either logged the clips metadata incorrectly (I used the new CC custom metadata feature on ingest) or I am searching via Premiere incorrectly (through the search bar in the top left of a given bin window).
I am very new to Premiere having jumped ship after a long love affair with FCP 7, so you will have to excuse me if this is a simple case of user error.

Unfortunately, that is just not a work flow that I use or am familiar with. I don't think I can help much with this specific problem, but maybe with a work around.
My own view is that Prelude has very limited usefulness for a single editor. Using only native media, without transcoding, I don't think there's anything Prelude can do that PP can't do itself, so I just don't see the purpose of a single user spreading the work out between two different programs. Where Prelude makes sense is when you have an assistant editor, who can make selects and rough cuts in Prelude for the editor who does the real work in Premiere Pro. With two people working, then it makes sense to spread the load out to two programs.
The point I'm working towards is why not just add your keywords right in Premiere Pro?

No accessory view in custom table view cells.

Hello Everyone,
I have been having problems with my accessory views in my custom cell views. I am expecting that the accessory views will show up by only setting the accessoryType property correctly. Below is a link to my class for the custom cell view. I am setting the accessoryView to UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton.
I didn't know how to paste code in here, so I have pasted my code here: http://pastebin.com/m3ba5d9de
Thanks again,
Uday

Hi
View is always a better option..using a view you can avoid the naming convention problems associated with fields or Table names.
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How to create wizard for a custom mainenance view/view cluster

Hi Experts,
I have created 5 custom maintenance view and have maintained all the views sequencially and have made the first mainenance view as the start view & header entry and all other views are child or subview of the header view in a custom view cluster. But I want a wizard to help the user / end user successfully enter all the required values for all child views, it will help the user to navigate from the start view to all the child views where the fields of the wizard will be associated to the child maintenance views.
Please suggest how to create wizard for view cluster.
I'll give max reward point for the helpful answer.
Thanks in advance
koustav

Hello Pasapula
When you are in the View Cluster maintenance dialog (SE54) click on dialog "Events".
Below the field for the view cluster you have an additional field <b>FORM routines main program</b>. There you have to add the main program containing the FORM routines called by the VC events.
For example: I had defined a normal report containing an include with all the FORM routines. The report contains only the following lines of coding:
report zus_0120_u1.
* Common Data und access routines for user exits in VC maintenance
include LSVCMCOD.
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Regards
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