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DonJohnston
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January 12, 2012
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Combining data from iptc fields

  • January 12, 2012
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Hello group. Happy New Year.

I'm looking for a script which would perform an action of copying data from the city, state/prov and country fields and adding that data to the description field. I still wish to retain the content in the description field. My stock agency is requesting this be done in order to create a more complete picture caption for web display.

Hoping the list can help! Thanks

Don

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Correct answer Paul Riggott

Happy new year Don, hope you have a good one!

Please try this...

#target bridge   
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {  
combineFields = MenuElement.create("command", "Details to Description", "at the end of Tools","cft2012");
}
combineFields.onSelect = function () { 
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
var sels = app.document.selections;
for(var z in sels){
var t = new Thumbnail(sels);    
var md = t.synchronousMetadata
var Desc = md.read("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",  "dc:description");
var City = md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "City");
var Country = md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "Country");
var Region =  md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "State");
var DescAll = Desc + "\r" +City + "\r" + Region +"\r" + Country;    
var myXmpFile = new XMPFile( t.spec.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE); 
var myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();
myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description"); 
myXmp.setLocalizedText( XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", null, "x-default", DescAll ); 
if (myXmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) { 
        myXmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);
         myXmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY); 
        }
    }
}

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Paul Riggott
Paul RiggottCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 12, 2012

Happy new year Don, hope you have a good one!

Please try this...

#target bridge   
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {  
combineFields = MenuElement.create("command", "Details to Description", "at the end of Tools","cft2012");
}
combineFields.onSelect = function () { 
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
var sels = app.document.selections;
for(var z in sels){
var t = new Thumbnail(sels);    
var md = t.synchronousMetadata
var Desc = md.read("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",  "dc:description");
var City = md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "City");
var Country = md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "Country");
var Region =  md.read("http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/",  "State");
var DescAll = Desc + "\r" +City + "\r" + Region +"\r" + Country;    
var myXmpFile = new XMPFile( t.spec.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE); 
var myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();
myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description"); 
myXmp.setLocalizedText( XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", null, "x-default", DescAll ); 
if (myXmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) { 
        myXmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);
         myXmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY); 
        }
    }
}
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DonJohnstonAuthor
Known Participant
January 12, 2012

Hi Paul

Many thanks!

Please bear with me regarding getting this script going. I copied your code and pasted it into ExtendScript Toolkit in Adobe utilities CS5. I gave it a name and saved it to my Bridge Scripts folder. When I restarted Bridge i was asked if I wished to enable this script, so things looked good so far.

But when I tried it on a nef file which contained info in the relevant fields nothing happened, so I don't know whether there is a bug in the script or whether I missed doing something trying to apply it. I clicked on a file and then I clicked on the script which now appears in the Tools window, but the info in the Description field remained the same.

What am I missing?

Hope 2012 is off to a great start for you!

Don

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