Sort by IPTC data

Why is this not an option? I'd like to sort by caption or even better subject ID

Yes, this is possible. Go to View>View Options... and for Column View pick a metadata set which includes the IPTC date.
Then, when you are in Column View in the browser pane you can click on the top of that column to order the images by it. Swapping back to Grid View will keep the order.
You can sort by any metadata you want in this manner.
Ian

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Custom Sort BY IPTC data

I have a large number of scans that I am trying to assemble into a book. Is there any way to sort by IPTC date? (I hand inserted the date of actual image creation into the IPTC, but Aperture insists on sorting by scan date). Thanks for your help.
Seth

Yes, this is possible. Go to View>View Options... and for Column View pick a metadata set which includes the IPTC date.
Then, when you are in Column View in the browser pane you can click on the top of that column to order the images by it. Swapping back to Grid View will keep the order.
You can sort by any metadata you want in this manner.
Ian

Sort by IPTC Metadata

Many of my photos were digitized with a slide scanner and I have manually assigned them an IPTC Metadata "date created". In Photoshop Express and Bridge, I can sort by this date, which puts all of my photos automatically in chronological order.
It seems that Aperature is too antiquated and will only sort by the Exif "image date", which is the date I scanned the slides, and within this date by file name (random). Am I missing something, or is there no way to sort by the "date created?".
Sad and disappointing if Apple really missed this.

You seem to be leading with your chin a lot in these posts - luckily for you I've used up my quota of jokes and ripostes for today...
If you are using referenced mode for your photos, they're right where you left them in the hard disk and you can open them with whatever you like. If they've been actually imported into Aperture's library (ie managed mode) it's possible but not desirable nor recommended.
If your aperture is suffering from general out of order randomness it sounds like you haven't spent much time setting up the structure to work like you think:
1. What is your general structure for projects?
2. Do you use blue folders to group projects (by location, year, client or whatever)
3. What is your taxonomy for keywording?
Why would you want to want to try to get to the images directly? Aperture is supposed to hide the anarchy of the way you've stored the photos on the disk and allow you to slice and dice to your heart's content. In starting to use Aperture I changed the project and folder structure in it three times in two months, without ever changing the physical location of the files on the disk. To borrow a phrase from lolcat... "ur doign it wrong"
Regards,
Calx

IPTC data, keywords and captions

I used lightroom 4 for all my tagging/labelling and uploading work at sporting events.
It has always worked flawlessly and I was very happy with it, however, I just had to reset my laptop due to a harddrive failure so have had to download Lightroom 5 instead.
I cannot seem to get the IPTC template to attach to the files when I import them.
I usually setup a preset for the game I am at with some general keywords but most importantly the IPTC data for copyright and payment purposes.
Today I was not able to get this data to copy to any of the imported files at all and had to do it all manually which is extremely frustrating and time consuming.
To get the template into lightroom in the first place I used to save the .xmp file in a new folder. Then I would copy a jpeg image into that same folder and name them the same file. Then when I import the jpeg into lightroom I could see all the IPTC data and create a new template for each game/event from that.
Can anyone advise please?!

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the email.
Yeah I created the same template I would have done in lightroom 4. I usually save it and then apply it automatically to all images upon import but it simply wasn't attaching anything to them.
I even tried syncing it across from other photos and it wouldn't copy.
Do you have any suggestions or even a guide on how to make the iptc template from scratch?!
I'm not shooting this weekend because I don't have it sorted yet but have a rugby match next weekend and the north east derby (Newcastle vs Sunderland) so need to sort it by then or I'll need to get photomechanic which I don't want to do!
Thanks
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Sorting by IPTC Metadata

Many of my photos were digitized with a slide scanner and I have manually assigned them an IPTC Metadata "date created". In Photoshop Express and Bridge, I can sort by this date, which puts all of my photos automatically in chronological order.
It seems that Aperature is unable to, and will only sort by the Exif "image date", which is the date I scanned the slides, and within this date by file name (random). Am I missing something, or is there no way to sort by the "date created?".
I'm talking sorting here, not searching.

Simply select your pictures, go to the Metadata menu, and choose Adjust date and time. Then EXIF data will be change and will work as expected.

How can I sort lines of data (alphabetically) in the new pages 5.0?

How can I sort lines of data (alphabetically) in the new pages 5.0?
It was very simple to do in the previou version of pages.

I'm not sure why people are torturing themselves with Pages 5 given the nearly universal outcry on this forum and the incredibly negative reviews elswhere, such as the App Store.
Pages 4.3 should still be in an iWorks folder within your Applications folder. Just use that.
Please remember to tell Apple what we need from them at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

How Can I put an Artists Live Albums in a separate folder, so they sort by "Concert Date" in iTunes and do not "intermingle" so to speak with Studio Albums? Is this possible?

How Can I put an Artists Live Albums in a separate folder, so they sort by "Concert Date" in iTunes and do not "intermingle" so to speak with Studio Albums? Is this possible?
That is about the best way I can phrase my question.
I put year/month/date at the beginning of a show, hoping for them to sort by date and I get mixed results.
Would creating a Folder within the Artists' existing folder that said "Pearl Jam Live", inside the "Pearl Jam" folder in iTunes Media help this "Date Sorting Issue"?
Thank you.

Or is there a way to go through aperture to make a new reference library that I can move the masters into later?
you do not move the masters into a references library - you turn your current library into a referenced library. As Terence Devlin said:
File -> Relocate Masters
What you should set up:
Select a folder, where you want to store your referenced files - probably on an external drive.
Decide on a hierarchical folder structure inside this folder - that is completely up to you.
Select a project from your library and use the command "File -> Relocate Masters/Originals" to move the original image files to the folder where you want to go them to. Only take care not to send two projects to the same folder.
Alternatively, if you do not care about the folder structure Aperture will use, select all images at once from the "Photos" view and let Aperture decide how to assing the folders - in the "Relocate Originals" dialoge you can specify a subfolder format.
Regards
Léonie

Is there a way to edit IPTC data of an image with AppleScript?

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to batch-edit the IPTC data from images. Is that somehow possible with Applescript? If so, could someone point me to a direction?
(I fond a script working wit Graphic Converter in another thread, but that didn't work.)
Thanks,
p.

Frank, maybe you could give me a hand here. I'm building the basic script cycling through the dropped files. But I don't know how to best implement the terminal command.
In each cycle, I would set the file path as a variable and then compose the terminal command in order to execute it with "do script".
But "set x to path of eachFile" doesn't work: <<class ppth>> of alias "(path shows here)" could not be read. Any ideas how to do that better?
on open theFiles
repeat with eachFile in theFiles
                    set x to path of eachFile
                    tell application "Terminal"
                     activate
                    do script "hello" (Exiftool command will be here)
                    close window 1
                    end tell
          end repeat
end open

How do I delete duplicate songs in my iTunes? I have hundreds and I don't want to delete them one by one. They were all added on the same date, so sorting by the date won't help.

How do I delete duplicate songs in my iTunes? I have hundreds and I don't want to delete them one by one. They were all added on the same date, so sorting by the date won't help.

Hi, if this is in regards to your library simply open up itunes and do the following steps:
Click File
Scroll down to "show duplicates"
A list will then appear of your duplicate song titles.
Be sure to CAREFULLY review each song to make sure it is a duplicate ( as I have some music that is the same song but live, acoustic etc...)
Proceed to manually delete each song from the list and leave alone any song that you wish to keep.
Best of luck,
Cait

In V_V2 the role of Sort Item by date of creation and Sort by delivery date of earliest schedule line for the Sales Orders when Material is out of Stock.

Hi All,
Good Morning,
I am working on once Incident for Re-Scheduling Program V_V2 where the user has requested us to change the criteria for determining the priority of Sales Document based on Sort Item by date of creation. Currently they are using the Sort by delivery date of earliest schedule line in the Variant.
I would like to know the role these both options play in the Re-Scheduling program V_V2. I would like to know the impact of both of them and the kind of testing I need to perform to study the behaviour of Sales Orders especially when the material is out of stock?
Please explain with help of examples.
Thanks
Farhan.

This is not that simple that an example would explain how this transaction works but I'll give you some examples.
Material A has SO1 and SO2 of 10KG each, stock is 20KG so both quantities are confirmed at today. A stock recount determines a reduction to 5KG. This program would change confirmed quantity of SO1 to 5KG and SO2 to 0KG if:
Creation date of SO1 is older then SO2 in strategy 1
1st delivery date of SO1 is smaller then SO2 in strategy 2
Material B has SO1 and SO2 with 10KG each but no quantity confirmed, stock is 0KG. A prodution adds 15KG to stock. The program would change confirmed quantities of SO1 to 10KG and SO2 to 5KG if:
Creation date of SO1 is older then SO2 in strategy 1
1st delivery date of SO1 is smaller then SO2 in strategy 2
I'm assuming a specific configuration, there are many other scenarios possible.
regards,
Edgar

Some photos are not sorted correctly by date

I just imported some photos from my friends camera who were on the same trip. However, I noticed that a couple (not all) of his photos are not sorted correctly by date in the Event. A photo from day 3 somehow comes before the photos from day 2. I checked the extended information and the dates on the photo are correct. Has anyone had this problem and know of a solution? Thanks.

It might be of some help to delete the photo cache. Please see this link - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

How to use XmlModify to sort the XML Data?

Hello,
I saw some examples explain how to use XmlModify in BDB XML package. I want to sort the XML data by several elements but my Java program could not work correctly.
<CustomerData>
<Transaction>
<DLSFIELDS>
<ADR_PST_CD>12345</ADR_PST_CD>
<CLT_IRD_NBR>002</CLT_IRD_NBR>
</DLSFIELDS>
</Transaction>
<Transaction>
<DLSFIELDS>
<ADR_PST_CD>12345</ADR_PST_CD>
<CLT_IRD_NBR>102</CLT_IRD_NBR>
</DLSFIELDS>
</Transaction>
// many nodes like transaction ...
</CustomerData>
My XQuery script was executed successfully in the shell. The script looks as follows:
"for $i in collection('sample.dbxml')/CustomerData/Transaction order by xs:decimal($i//ADR_PST_CD), xs:decimal($i//CLT_IRD_NBR) return $i".
The Java code :
// create XmlManager
XmlManager manager = // ...;
// open XmlContainer
XmlContainer container = // ...;
XmlQueryContext context = manager.createQueryContext(XmlQueryContext.LiveValues, XmlQueryContext.Eager);
XmlQueryExpression expression = manager.prepare("for $i in collection('sample.dbxml')/CustomerData/Transaction order by xs:decimal($i//ADR_PST_CD),xs:decimal($i//CLT_IRD_NBR) return $i", context);
XmlModify modify = manager.createModify();
XmlUpdateContext uc = manager.createUpdateContext();
XmlDocument xmldoc = container.getDocument("sample.xml");
XmlValue value = new XmlValue(xmldoc);
long numMod = modify.execute(value, context, uc);
System.out.println("Peformed " + numMod     + " modification operations");
Could you point out the errors above or offer some suggestion?
Thanks.

I have other question of the sorting issue. Here are a large XML need to sort so I have to split it to multiple small XML files. After importing these files, I will use the XmlModify and XQuery to sort them. I'm not clear on the multiple XML files processing.
1. Can the BDB XML ensure that all these XML files were sorted or how to update all documents with same logic.
2. If I want export all these sorted documents, how can I ensure these files processed in sequence? Which document needs process first?
The export method:
public void export(String outputfile)throws Exception{
final int BLOCK_SIZE = 5 * 1024 * 1024; // 5Mb
try{
File theFile = new File(outputfile);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(theFile);
byte[] buff= new byte[BLOCK_SIZE];
XmlResults rs = container.getAllDocuments(new XmlDocumentConfig());
while(rs.hasNext()){
     XmlDocument xmlDoc = rs.next().asDocument();
     XmlInputStream inputStream = xmlDoc.getContentAsXmlInputStream();
     long read=0;
     while(true){
     read = inputStream.readBytes(buff, BLOCK_SIZE);
fos.write(buff,0,(int)read);
     if(read < BLOCK_SIZE) break;
inputStream.delete();
xmlDoc.delete();
rs.delete();
//MUST CLOSE!
fos.close();
catch(Exception e){
System.err.println("Error exporting file from container " + container);
System.err.println(" Message: " + e.getMessage());
Thanks.

Sort by Creation Date and TIME!

I need to sort hundreds of images taken by three photographers and on six different cameras. I sort by Image Date, but it keeps each photographers images together, seems to sort by DATE only, then by file name.
I have used iView Media Pro to sort this way and it is a GREAT way to organize this type of work. Is there a way to refine how Aperture 1.5.1 does this type of sort?
At this point, my option appears to be to export my final picks, then resort and rename them in iView Media Pro.

In the browser section, I clicked on the list view (control-L is the shortcut) and then clicked on the "Image Date" header, and saw all my images sorted by date AND time. Is this what you're looking for? If all the photographers shot on the same date and time, then they'd be intermingled I suppose, but if the times were separated, this should work. Give it a shot anyway.
Mark

Is there a way to sort pdf by date created rather than by date added?

In iBooks in Mavericks, is there a way to sort pdf by date created rather than by date added?

I noticed that the "Year" information and "Release Date" information are usually wrong.
For example, the song "The Twist" by Chubby Checker has 2007 for the year and 3/5/2007 as the release date. I understand that this is the release date of the greatest hits compilation album, but not the song.
Is there any way to change the dates so that I can sort by year? I would like 60s songs to appear with a 1960s year or release date.

How to add IPTC data to multiple photos w/o overwriting other data?

I need to see if there's a way to add IPTC data to one or more fields to mulitple photos without disturbing the other fields' data that's already there. For example, I've keyworded & captioned my images, but now would like to add the City or the Country to all the shots, or a group of shots.
Conventional Lift & Stamp will override the keyword & caption field info on the stamped images, which I don't want. How to I lift & stamp other select fields? I sure don't want to have to type in the city or country on hundreds/thousands of images!
Randy
Power Mac G5, dual 2.5, 2.5 gb Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Thanks for the reply.
In the Lift & Stamp HUD, under the IPTC heading,
there's no way to de-select the sub-categories of
Caption & Kepyword, leaving just State (or other
fields which don't seem to be even present). One can
de-select the major categories of Keywords, Caption,
IPTC, etc. but not the subcategories. This is the
problem I'm running into -- no way to just add
additional data in select fields.
Unless I'm missing something.
Indeed! Aperture does not make this at all obvious, but with any line highlighted in the Lift & Stamp HUD just hit the "delete" key and that line is gone. If you delete a category (line with a checkbox) the whole category goes, if you expand a category you can delete individual lines, whatever you like. Also very handy for adjustment stamping when you don't want to stamp a clone job, just white balance.
It remembers what you have removed until you do another Lift.

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