Adobe Bridge 2018 script to "Prepend filename to the Description"

[stephend54917218]

Hi,

I am trying to create an Adobe Bridge 2018 script to "Prepend filename to the Description".

#target bridge 

addNametoMeta = {}; 

addNametoMeta.execute = function(){ 

  var sels = app.document.selections; 

  for (var i = 0; i < sels.length; i++){ 

var md = sels.synchronousMetadata; 

    md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"; 

    var Name = decodeURI(sels.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');

    md.Caption = md.Caption + Name; 

  } 

} 

if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge"){ 

var menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "Prepend Filename to description", "at the end of Tools"); 

  menu.onSelect = addNametoMeta.execute; 

}

Have tried: md.Description = md.Description + Name; 

Would like: md.Description = md.Description + " " + Name; 

Any suggestions out there ????

[Kukurykus]

Your code works. Description you used is incorrect. Caption included in original code is that keyword you are looking for

[Stephen Marsh]

Hi Kukurykus

As you say stephend54917218 has a sample script that is targeting the Caption metadata (even though the script mentions description, that is obviously a mistake, perhaps inherited from altering another script that was originally targeting the description metadata).

If you wish to target the description metadata, then you need to use the correct namespace.

I don’t believe that the Photoshop NS http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0 is the correct choice for the description metadata. I believe that the script should be using the Dublin Core http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ NS instead.

[Kukurykus]

You mean correct choise for description aka caption? If so then with Dublin Core it doesn't work. Caption is undocumented. There is description indeed in reference but as I don't work with Br scripting often I can not remind now did I ever use that.

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

You mean correct choise for description aka caption? If so then with Dublin Core it doesn't work. Caption is undocumented. There's description indeed in reference but as I don't work with Br scripting often I can not remind now did I ever used that.

Ah, your right… now I’m really confused!

Let me dig a little deeper!

EDIT: OK, so the script in the OP is adding the filename to the end/suffix (without a word space or other separator) of the existing DC:Description metadata.

The following code will prefix/prepend the filename without extension before the DC:Description (Photoshop Caption) metadata, separated by a word space:

#target bridge
// https://forums.adobe.com/message/10537060#10537060
prefixNametoDescMeta = {}; 
prefixNametoDescMeta.execute = function(){ 
  var sels = app.document.selections; 
  for (var i = 0; i < sels.length; i++){ 
var md = sels.synchronousMetadata; 
    md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"; 
    var Name = decodeURI(sels.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
    md.Caption = Name + " " + md.Caption; 
  } 
} 
if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge"){ 
var menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "Prefix Filename to Description Metadata", "at the end of Tools"); 
  menu.onSelect = prefixNametoDescMeta.execute; 
}

[Kukurykus]

I noticed it as well, there was md.Caption before Name, quite the contrary to that he stated in his title, but I wasn't sure wasn't it his intetnion to insert file name in front of existing description or like 'prepend' stands for put it at end.

[stephend54917218]

Thank you so much !!!

[Kukurykus]

If you wanted to add Name at beginning of Description why you were adding it at end?

[stephend54917218]

I was just trying to get ANYTHING to work so I wanted to alter the minimum amount of script as possible.

Thanks for your help.

[Kukurykus]

If anything that works then like I said your original code worked, didn't it?