Limited Choices for Caption Metadata Content

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May 29, 2025
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I am trying to display the IPTC Core metadata field "Job Identifier" in captions on my photographic images - I am using this field as a unique "Asset Number" for each image. Despite reviewing documentation in a variety of places that says "Job Identifier" is a legit choice, there is no such choice I can see in the Object > Captions > Caption Setup dropdown for the Metadata field. Everything I don't care about is there, "Job Identifier" is not. Maybe I am missing some step? Or maybe the documentation is wrong? I hate the idea of going through several hundred images and stuffing some unrelated metadata field that inDesign would allow with the information just to work around this.

Any suggestions before I start pulling my hair out.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Don't think Job Identifier is an option in the Captions in indesign

In Bridge: Use Tools > Append Metadata might do the trick

Or with a metadata editor like ExifTool, use a command like

exiftool "-Title<IPTC:JobIdentifier" *.jpg

This should copy the Job Identifier to the Title field for all images in the folder.

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Michael_Wells5341Author

Participant

Yes agreed. Plenty of online resources say it is, but clearly they are wrong. I think they are basing their assumption that some IPTC core metadata is supported therefore ALL is, which is a bad assumption.

Only legit option at this point is to fudge the information into some metadata field that is otherwise not what I care about (at this time) and move on. Maybe someday someone at Adobe will decide that their assumptions of which IPTC core fields to support are wrong. I see no reason why they shouldn't just support them all and let the user figure out whether a given metadata field is important to them, or not. I managed large software engineering teams for many years, I pretty much know now the thinking process goes ("why would a user want to do that?" - usually how it works).

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

A script could potentially do it - can you share some images with me with the Metadata in it?

Thanks

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