How to apply revised item template back to all those items affected by the template

Question

Inventory has Item Templates thru which item attributes can be set for similar items with similar attributes.
If for some reason we need to make a modification to the Item template and want to re-apply this template to all those items to which it was applied earlier, how do we do it
in Rel 10.7SC.
Manual process of identifying those items and applying template individually would be a lengthy process.
Is there an alternative ?

Answer 1

So, what the camera writes, the Exif metadata, is inside the photo file, or in another hidden file for each photo?
It’s “inside” the file.
How come then it happens that sometimes the date changes after you've written the pictures on a CD, and imported them from that later... shouldn't the metadata stay with the file? It happens mostly with early camera phone pictures...
A photo can lose the metadata in imperfect copies, or - in the case of early camera phones - there may have been none at all. In which case iPhoto uses the File “Date Created” instead.
I have a lot of pictures whose dates I really had to change because they were wrong - I just hope this work won't go down the drain further down the road... perhaps when importing into a new Mac, or when using a different program altogether...?
In the case of moving to a new Mac:
Simply move the Library to the new machine. That will get all the data, metadata, originals, edited versions and so on.
In using a different application:
1. If it understands the iPhoto Library (like Aperture, for instance) then you will have no issue
2. If it doesn’t, then you export the Pics from iPhoto (File -> Export) and check the box at Title and Keywords. This will mean that your Titles, Keywords +and Descriptions+ (though not explicitly mentioned) will be written to the IPTC data.
Regards
TD