Metadata fields lose focus mid edit

This one could get me ranting, I am looking at about 500 images all needing iptc fields created individually, that is a bit of keyboard work.
So I select the field and begin typing, look down to my notebook to find the edit has gone, the field reverted to it's previous state. This happens too frequently, on occasion it has dropped focus and then changed module to develop!
There are other threads that touch on this subject, it is one of those intermittent issues the developers get stuck understanding. Please invest the time and find a solution that is both simple and safe.
Cheers
Victor

I'm glad other folks are seeing this problem and it isn't just me.
I'll try the suggestion from above about pausing between fields and see if that helps.
I'll watch and try to see if it only happens after I had just edited one field and am working on the next. Also, I believe it has happened when I was working on a single image rather than a group.
The problem is not "just" losing what has been typed. The problem is also finding that you are sending keyboard commands to Lightroom itself. e.g. if your next character to type is 'n', you switch from grid to survey view. I once did a 'd' followed by a 'v', and my images were changed to greyscale. That scares me a little. I wonder if there is a combination I could be typing that would actually delete photos that haven't been backed up yet?
My system is a MAC OS X 10.4.8 with 768 MB of RAM. I wonder if the problem could have anything to do with being at the edge of the "System Requirements"?
Robert

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It's that time of year again! I have one race that requires a bib number search, which in turn requires me to enter the bib numbers in the caption field. I used PhotoMechanic last year but was told that I could just as easily do it in Lightroom by entering the number in the caption field and then using command-right arrow to commit the data and move to the next photo while keeping focus on the caption field.
This is happening exactly *some* of the time. Most often, though, when I command-right arrow I'm taken to the next photo but LR sort of "thinks" a little bit and in the process the caption field loses focus. Over the course of thousands of photos, the need to continually grab the mouse and click the focus back on the caption field is cumulatively very, very cumbersome.
Anyone know of a better way to do this?
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Just be aware of the limitations you get for $150...
PM has no editing capability other than cropping an image and even that is pretty limited. So if you aren't going to do a lot of editing then PM might well be the way to go since it might handle metadata editing "better" than LR for the specific task you are doing. Don't forget to add in the cost of the external editor that PM requires.
I'm not looking at replacing LR, just frustrated that I feel the need to supplement it for such a simple task.
BTW, I don't see the behavior you are describing when applying captions to photos sequentially. Sometimes you have to hit ctrl-right a couple of times because of the way LR handles autofill, but you can turn off autofill in catalog preferences.
Yes, when autofill is on I sometimes need to hit command-right arrow a couple of times...once to basically select the autofill option I've been presented, and again to commit the data and move to the next photo. That's not what I'm complaining about. My gripe is that I almost always end up at the next photo with the caption field not having focus as it should.
What were the factors that made you try LR?
I've used LR since the first beta version and have no intention of giving it up. I get frustrated with it now and then, and this is one of those times. Adobe tells me command-right arrow should do what I want, but it doesn't. Why not? So I end up having to use a different app just to add captions.

I need to execute a formatted search when the field loses focus

Is this even possible? I do NOT want to force the users to press shift-f2 every time to validate/search on every field on the form. This is absurd. How can I trigger a formatted search on a field when it loses focus?
I tried activating menu item #7425, but it's not executing the one on the field that loses focus, but a different one. I guess it only works on the active field??
I tried catching an earlier event, but after it executes the formatted search on the right field, it places the value on whatever field just gained focus instead of the one it was assigned to.
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Bryan:
I use the following on a KeyDown event for when the User tabs out of a field after entering data if the data they entered is not valid. Perhaps you could try this in the LostFocus event:
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Event happening when a field loses focus...

If I have a field called , say, "text_txt" - is there a way
to make it so that something happens (like a goto action or
whatever) as soon as the focus goes OFF of that text field?...
Thanks!...

DIY_Lobotomy,
> If I have a field called , say, "text_txt" - is there a
way
> to make it so that something happens (like a goto
> action or whatever) as soon as the focus goes OFF of
> that text field?...
This question is likely to get more answers in the
ActionScript forum,
but since it's here, I'll answer it here.
For the vast majority of ActionScript questions, here's the
scoop: just
about everything in ActionScript can be referred to as an
object. Objects
are defined by their namesake classes (movie clips by the
MovieClip class,
dynamic and input text fields by the TextField class, sounds
by the Sound
class, and so on). Classes are your Owner's Manual for the
object in
question. Things the an object can do are called methods;
characteristics
an object has are called properties; things an object can
react to are
called events. At least one of these three categories appears
in each class
entry of the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.
In your case, you're looking for the Events summary of the
"TextField
class" entry, because you want to know what things a text
field can react to
(such as focus leaving the object).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Hi Tim,
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I am pre-loading a text field with a large amount of text and making it read-only so that the user can scroll and read. So essentially I'm not using it for text entry but simply as a scrollable text area as I couldn't find a simpler way to achieve this.
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Here are my answers..
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Srini: I do not think that is available.
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When does a selection in a text field in a Finder window lose focus?

Hello,
this problem has emerged on account of an Applescript file that needs to access a text selection (portion of a filename highlighted) in an open Finder window.
The bare minimum code to demonstrate the problem is this:
*tell application "System Events"*
* *tell process "Finder"*
* *set selText to value of attribute "AXSelectedText" of text field 1*
* *end tell*
*end tell*
other variants also exist, using "keystroke" but that does not work either. I am not asking help with Applescript here, it is here only to give a sense of the problem.
My conclusion thus far is that the selection lose focus before the script process can access it. In the best case I get the full filename by using "attribute" and copy of the alias onto the clipboard by using "keystroke".
So my problem is this:
It seems that the focus stays alive when one clicks on a menubar item, any click on any other item on the desktop, including windows of irrelevant applications, changes the focus from the selection within the text field corresponding to a filename, to the filename itself.
And my question is this:
Is there a changeable setting within the OS that has to do with how long the focus stays alive on a selection within a text field corresponding to a filename? If yes, how do I change it?
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baltwo wrote:
Thanks for clarifying. Never heard it called a text field, just a label. So, exactly what are you trying to accomplish? Is it that you want AS to select the file, highlight its label so you can edit/change it with some other text? If so, have you checked out the Finder scripts installed on the machine, especially the Finder script *Add to Finder Names*?
UI Element Inspector calls the activated/editable filename a text field.
Actually I want to modify one of the stock Finder scripts. I want to be able to select part of the file name in the active text field of the Finder window, then activate the script, *have the script pick up the selection* as a text string then use it internally.
The bolded step is the one in question.
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So, all I'm looking for is a way to have access to the autofill list that is created for my custom metadata fields so that I can delete the erroneous autofill entry. I've thought about deleting the field entirely and recreating it, but that would remove all those indicators or flags that I have already entered for my photographs.
Alternatively I could find an IPTC field that I am not using and find a way to use it, (because those fields have autofill lists that can be edited). However my record keeping would be exported with the photograph. Some of the information that I collect is private and should not be included in the metadata while other information should be; that is why I've settled on custom metadata fields.
I hope there is a simple answer to this that I'm overlooking.
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Have you tried there?
Dunno if this online configurator covers it:
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~R.

How to make metadata fields required when creating folders

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Related issue with SR 3-6472229431 and SR 3-6471130611.
We're using DIS 11.1.6 64-bits (2011_11_29 (rev 9756) 11.1.6.97) in a Windows 7 64-bits workstation (with UCM 11.1.1.5 in a Linux machine). The check-in of images to UCM goes fine.
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Folders_g is enabled. DesktopTag too.
EDIT: Patch: 14695303 - WCC 11.1.1.5.0 BUNDLE ( MLR 16 ) NOV 6 2012 applied.
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Edited by: fgomes on 22/11/2012 03:24

After reading your response and rereading the original question a bit closer, the metadata prompting feature does not apply to creating new folders, only content.
Again, though, I think the focus here is in the wrong place. The metadata applied to a folder is intended to be ultimately applied to the content. You can build global rules that fire on submission of content to check if a field has a value, and throw an error if the value is empty.
If you expect users to create folders (and actually apply any metadata to the actual folder itself), you will be disappointed. Experience shows that users are not interested in that level of detail when creating content, let alone folders. Letting typical users create folders is a bad idea anyway, as they tend to create the same inefficient folder structures they previously created in file shares within Content Server.
If you need to tightly control folder attributes, you'll be better served by locking down the ability to create new folders. Otherwise you're looking at some type of customization. Keep in mind that you won't be able to customize the right click behavior of DIS. Any changes to DIS would have to be an enhancement request.

Lose focus when tabbing out of autoSubmit text box in IE

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IPTC Content, IPTC Copyright, IPTC Creator, IPTC Image and IPTC Status, what are all these for and what about each of their fields, I don't know what they mean and what are they for, where they will be read/used, all that...
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See: http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/
Download: http://www.iptc.org/download/public/IPTCCore-CSPanelsOnly.zip

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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that the managed metadata fields not display in preview.
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Select Button beside custom metadata field on Check In Form

Hi
In Oracle Content Server 10gR3, is there a way to add a "Select" button to User Alias Applet for a new Meta data field on New Check In Form? I tried creating a component but I don't see a select button being shown up. The button does shows up if it's a standard metadata fields but not for the custom one. Here is the component code. Any idea what I am doing wrong and how to fix it.
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>
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</title>
</head>
<body>
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<$include super.std_doc_page_definitions$>
<$include custom_modify_comments_definitions$>
<@end@>
<@dynamichtml custom_modify_comments_definitions@>
<$if isCheckin$>
<$xComments:isHidden = 1$>
<$xComments = "some preset and hidden comments"$>
<$elseif isUpdate$>
<$xComments:isInfoOnly = 1$>
<$endif$>
<@end@>
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<$include super.compute_std_field_includes$>
<$if fieldName like "dDocType"$>
<$if isCheckin or isUpdate$>
<$fieldEntryInclude = "custom_doc_type_popup_field_entry"$>
<$endif$>
<$endif$>
<@end@>
<@dynamichtml custom_doc_type_popup_field_entry@>
<input type="text" name="dDocType" value="<$fieldValue$>">
<input type="button" value="Select..."
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<script language="JavaScript">
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          if (str.length > 0)
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code=com.intranetsol.utilities.SelectUserApplet.class
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id=selectAlias
width=0
height=0
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          <param name=JsFunction value="setAliasString">
</applet>
<@end@>
</body>
</html>
Can someone please let me know what is in my above code that I am missing that is preventing the button not being shown in-front of the custom metadata field.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Edited by: guest0012 on Aug 29, 2009 4:24 PM

Interesting!
You'll need a component. You already mentioned you had a custom metadata field. You will also need to add a counter to the counters table for your component. During a check in you will need to fetch the next value from the counters table, increment the counter and store the new number back in the table. The year portion of the id is easy, get the current year and grab the last two characters. Then, put this all togther to get the data for your metadata field.
The big question now is where in the check in process will you do all this? You will need something called filters probably. Maybe addFiles, maybe validateStandard, there are several that this could work with.
Check out the how-to-components:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/ucm/samples/index.html
-Jason
http://www.corecontentonly.com

Need 2 metadata fields from item I am running a approval workflow on to show up on the task list

I have document library "A" that contains many documents with 6 columns of metadata. I have a simple approval workflow for the library that works as it should in functionality. My users would like it if 2 fields of metadata from the items in library
"A" would show up in the Task list so they could track the tasks by the 2 fields. Can anyone point me in the right direction here to make this happen? Working in SP2010 with Designer 2010 and IP 2010.
Thanks

Hi Ross,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to display two managed metadata fields in the associated tasks created in the approval workflow.
I recommend to edit the approval workflow in SharePoint Designer and new two task fields to display the two managed metadata fields.
Here are the detailed steps:
Open the approval workflow in SharePoint Designer and click Approval in Start Approval Process step.
Click New to create two task form fields in single line of text type.
Click Change the behavior of a single task under Customization.
In Before a Task is Assigned step, select Set Task Field under Task Behavior Actions and then set the newly created task form fields to get the values in the managed metadata fields of current item.
Please refer to the picture below(create a task form field called Managed Metadata for example and mm is the managed metadata column in the list):
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Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support

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