Custom Info Panel as Bridge CC 2018 MetaData Panel

This is late to reply, but have you considered Custom Metadata Panel? It's much easier to configure than FileInfo, its interface appears in the normal file viewer experience, and its forms can be exported and imported for use in groups. 
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I got it working in CC 2019! Use the 
XMP Metadata UI SDK CC 2014, structure, putting the folder structure in Metadata Extensions folder, which makes it work in the file info dialog in Photoshop CC 2019. Then, to get it to work with Bridge CC 2019, you need to remove all <section> elements from your views.xml. Once I did that, all my metadata appeared in the both the metadata panel and file info dialog in Bridge.

Welp, looks like they officially don't know if XML can be added in the old manner.  Their last response to my inquiry:

pdophoto

thanks for providing the information. As of now we only have the options as mentioned in the blog post but I will pass on your comment to the product team here so that they can investigate more. Thanks! ^SK

I just reached out to @AdobeCare on twitter (their support portal is not functioning) since I haven't had a chance to explore CEP.  They forwarded me this blog post about a custom keywords panel someone created for use with Adobe Experience Manager and Bridge:  Custom Keywords Panel for Bridge CC and the AEM Tags Panel Extension for Bridge CC

I'm trying to work with it to modify and get the same functionality but using my XMP properties.  I'm not super familiar with this area so I'm just stabbing in the dark.  Thought I'd post it here in case someone else might be able to figure it out quicker.

So far, I've modified the XML file they provide in the blog post to create a panel (properties section at the top of the XML), but have not been able to figure out if the the xmp_properties can be used/accessed in the body section.  The <NamespaceProperty> puts in a field with that name and it is a blank keyword field.

Hi everyone,

I am still following and still need to be able to edit the following list of metadata.

It is of interest to those using old manual lenses and those doing film photography.

title

description

Headline

Category

SupplementalCategories

Keywords

Lens

Max Aperture

Focal Length

Focal Length In 35mm Film

ISOSpeedRatings

F Number

Exposure Time

Flash

Creator(s)

Copyright Notice

Copyright Status

OrientationCamera Make

Camera Model

Created Date

Date Time Original

Date Modified

Latitude

Longitude

I really hope someone could help people using old style photography.

Looks like now that Bridge is CEP compatible Adobe is suggesting that you need to create a custom panel to access/interact with this data versus how it had been done in Bridge 2017.  This is a bit of a pain as I, too, have an xml file that we've been using for the last few versions of Bridge and it is nice being able to access custom metadata fields in the same place as standard metadata fields without having to go into File Info.

I'm going to build a custom panel and will report back how well that works.  Found an updated CEP cookbook for Bridge and the current version of CEP (8.0):  CEP-Resources/CEP_8_Extensions_Cookbook_Bridge.pdf at master · Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources · GitHub

Lots of very useful information in there.

Hi everyone,

I'm not a coder or a scripter, I'm a graphic designer; a lot of the above is gobbledegook to me!

I am designing a catalogue with a huge number of images in it and it would be really helpful to me to be able to add my own metadata fields. Has anyone worked out how this can be done in Bridge 2018?

It would be simple fields like width, height, colour and so on but it would help me greatly.

Any help appreciated.

Ruth

I was able to get the Panel Converter tool from the SDK to convert our custom panel.

We had to fix some of the invalid XML first though.

The version number at the top of your file must be 1.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

You must also convert any ampersands in your XML and check for malformed labels or mismatching quotations.

I do have an outstanding issue though.

The converter created a File Info panel that is usable, however my team sorely misses the panel that was visible on Bridge without hitting CTRL+I.

For our workspace, this menu panel appeared along with the other standard panels, IPTC, DICOM, File Properties, EXIF..... etc etc...

The panel xml files were saved here in 2017:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC 2017\Custom File Info Panels\4.0\custom

along with a 'loc' folder for a .dat file.

Does anyone know how to get these back in Bridge 2018?

I am having the same issue where I was using a custom file info panel for years and now am unable to use it with the updated Bridge. I hope there is a solution since this specific panel is used my a good majority if visual information specialists in the Department of Defense. I tried to search for the location of the preinstalled DICOM folder to possibly locate the new folder location was did not find it anywhere.

I also informed the Bridge team about this issue. We'll see if they respond.