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Bridge script to write filename to Description, Credit Line, andTitle lines

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Hello! I'm in search of a Bridge script that will write a filename (without file extension) to the description line, title line, and Credit line (without overwriting!) in my IPTC metadata. I've looked around and haven't found something already written that does this and I don't quite have enough skills to write it myself or adapt something that exists already. Any leads or suggestions? Thanks!!

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Community Expert , Jun 06, 2019 Jun 06, 2019

I don't have one script that does all three... But I do have three separate scripts. I could possibly combine them with time/effort, but no promises as I'm new to scripting.

I did manage to hack an existing script to add the Filename to the Headline into the Credit:

// Bridge script to write filename to Description, Credit Line, andTitle lines

// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/656144 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/9744916 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/9745231 

#target bridge 

addName

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Community Expert , Jun 06, 2019 Jun 06, 2019

An equivalent ExifTool command line could be:

exiftool '-IPTC:ObjectName<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IPTC:Credit<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IFD0:ImageDescription<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-dc:Title<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-dc:Description<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-photoshop:Credit<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' -r 'pathTOfileORfolder'

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I posted the following code earlier in the topic thread, which adds the file name to the description field, removing the filename extension...

 

EDIT 11th April 2023: Code updated and tested with Bridge 2022 –

 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/10061534#10061534
// https://forums.adobe.com/message/3595421#3595421
#target bridge
   if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
fileToDesc = MenuElement.create("command", "TEST - Add FileName to Description", "at the end of Tools");
}
fileToDesc.onSel
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Community Expert , Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020

Using ExifTool, the command line code to copy the filename to the description metadata tag without extension would be:

 

 

exiftool '-description<${filename;s/\.[^\.]+$//}' -r 'path to file or folder here'

 

 

This command line code example is from the Mac, on Windows simply change the single straight quote/foot mark ' to straight double quote/inch marks " with the correct platform-specific path to the file or top-level folder. It uses a recursive argument to process all files in all folders und

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I don't have one script that does all three... But I do have three separate scripts. I could possibly combine them with time/effort, but no promises as I'm new to scripting.

I did manage to hack an existing script to add the Filename to the Headline into the Credit:

// Bridge script to write filename to Description, Credit Line, andTitle lines

// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/656144 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/9744916 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/9745231 

#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(/\.[^\.]+$/g, ' '); //remove extension  

    md.Credit = md.Credit + Name; 

  } 

if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge"){ 

var menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "Add filename to Credit", "at the end of Tools"); 

  menu.onSelect = addNametoMeta.execute; 

}

Here is the code for Filename to Description:

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/10061534#10061534

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/3595421#3595421

#target bridge

   if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {

fileToDesc = MenuElement.create("command", "Add FileName to Description", "at the end of Tools");

}

fileToDesc.onSelect  = function () {

var thumbs = app.document.selections;

if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined)  ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");

for(var a =0;a<thumbs.length;a++){

var selectedFile =  new Thumbnail(thumbs);

app.synchronousMode = true;

var xmp = new XMPMeta(selectedFile.synchronousMetadata.serialize());

var Desc = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");

if(Desc != "") Desc+= ";";

xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");

xmp.setLocalizedText( XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", null, "x-default", Desc +=  decodeURI(selectedFile.spec.name).replace(/\..+$/,""));

var newPacket = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);

selectedFile.metadata = new Metadata(newPacket);

    }

ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript.unload();

ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = undefined;

function getArrayItems(ns, prop){

var arrItem=[];

try{

var items = xmp.countArrayItems(ns, prop);

for(var i = 1;i <= items;i++){

arrItem.push(xmp.getArrayItem(ns, prop, i));

}

return arrItem.toString();

}catch(e){alert(e +" Line: "+ e.line);}

    }

};

Here is the code for Filename to Title:

// https://imagesimple.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/cs5-filename-to-title-script/

#target bridge

   if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {

FT = MenuElement.create("command", "Add FileName to Title", "at the end of Tools");

}

FT.onSelect = function () {

   AddFilenameToTitle();

   }

function AddFilenameToTitle(){

var thumbs = app.document.selections;

if(!thumbs.length) return;

if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined)  ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new

ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");

for(var a in thumbs){

var selectedFile = thumbs.spec;

var Title = decodeURI(selectedFile.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '')

      var myXmpFile = new XMPFile( selectedFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN,

XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);

  var myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();

        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");

        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title", Title, 0,

XMPConst.ALIAS_TO_ALT_TEXT);

        myXmp.setQualifier(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title[1]",

"http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "lang", "x-default");

        if (myXmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) {

        myXmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);

         myXmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);

         }

    }

}

After running all three scripts, I used ExifTool to confirm which metadata tags were written:

[IPTC]           ObjectName                    

[IPTC]           Credit                         

[IPTC]           Caption-Abstract               

[IFD0]           ImageDescription               

[XMP-dc]     Title                          

[XMP-dc]     Description                    

[XMP-photoshop]    Credit

And here is the result from Bridge's Metadata panel for a file titled "colour FILE-Test.psd":

results.png

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An equivalent ExifTool command line could be:

exiftool '-IPTC:ObjectName<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IPTC:Credit<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-IFD0:ImageDescription<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-dc:Title<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-dc:Description<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' '-XMP-photoshop:Credit<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' -r 'pathTOfileORfolder'

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Dec 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019

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I can't seem to get this to run properly in Adobe Bridge CC 10.0.1 - there's just no feedback at all. I copied it into a notepad, saved it as a .jsx file (file properties confirm that it is a JSX file), installed it in the proper folder, Bridge asked me if I wanted to enable it (clicked yes). Then it appears in the proper dropdown (Tools), yet it appears to do nothing. I get no feedback period and none of the metadata changes. Do you know what I might be doing wrong? 

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It's hard to believe that in 2020 this feature is not a standard in Adobe - All photographers use META and for me the best program for writing it is ACDSee as this feature has existed for a decade, but I am looking at swapping to Adobe products but all these limitations with XMP over XML are putting me off switching over. It would be nice if we had a way of just selecting a Parent folder, then everything inside those folders get written too, this is possible in ACDSee but you have toi tag each folder which makes it a long winded process but wtill much better than this Bridge nonsense 😕

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Did you ever find a Bridge script to write filename to Description? I too am interested in finding a script like this for the newest version of Adobe Bridge. Can you share any resources?

Morgan Howarth

[Edit by moderator: I've taken out your public email, you probably do not want to share that with everyone]

 

Please PM me if you have information! Thank you.

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I personally have not found a way to do it, I got ACDSee Professional thinking that would do it for me, but the system is so trashy, having to manually select each and every folder in a pull down menu and no way to select all sub-folders in a parent folder, it's an antiquated system at best, when I added one parent folder with all my location shots the program ceased to work properly, it now takes 10 minutes just to load up so I need to remove all the catalog files and start again 😞 
ACDsee does write the tags perfectly if you are willing to manually set each folder, but for me (I have over 100,000 photographs I'd like to change the EXIF on) this is no good.

It seems all we want is a simple program to read an XML file and write the relevant tags, hard to believe such a thing does not exist.

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I posted the following code earlier in the topic thread, which adds the file name to the description field, removing the filename extension...

 

EDIT 11th April 2023: Code updated and tested with Bridge 2022 –

 

// https://forums.adobe.com/message/10061534#10061534
// https://forums.adobe.com/message/3595421#3595421
#target bridge
   if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
fileToDesc = MenuElement.create("command", "TEST - Add FileName to Description", "at the end of Tools");
}
fileToDesc.onSelect  = function () {
var thumbs = app.document.selections;
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined)  ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
for(var a =0;a<thumbs.length;a++){
var selectedFile =  new Thumbnail(thumbs[a]);
app.synchronousMode = true;
var xmp = new XMPMeta(selectedFile.synchronousMetadata.serialize());
var Desc = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
if(Desc != "") Desc+= ";";
xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
xmp.setLocalizedText( XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", null, "x-default", Desc +=  decodeURI(selectedFile.spec.name).replace(/\..+$/,""));
var newPacket = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);
selectedFile.metadata = new Metadata(newPacket);
    }
ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript.unload();
ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = undefined;
function getArrayItems(ns, prop){
var arrItem=[];
try{
var items = xmp.countArrayItems(ns, prop);
for(var i = 1;i <= items;i++){
arrItem.push(xmp.getArrayItem(ns, prop, i));
}
return arrItem.toString();
}catch(e){alert(e +" Line: "+ e.line);}
    }
};

 

 

 

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Using ExifTool, the command line code to copy the filename to the description metadata tag without extension would be:

 

 

exiftool '-description<${filename;s/\.[^\.]+$//}' -r 'path to file or folder here'

 

 

This command line code example is from the Mac, on Windows simply change the single straight quote/foot mark ' to straight double quote/inch marks " with the correct platform-specific path to the file or top-level folder. It uses a recursive argument to process all files in all folders under the top-level folder. Further arguments can be added to only process certain file types or to ignore specific directories under the top-level directory path. This code duplicates and renames the original file for safety, and one can add the -overwrite_original argument to turn off this behaviour.

 

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So did anyone get the file name into the Title and Description Metatag with a Bridge script?

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My Filename to Title script will do that, you'd have to modify it to write into description as well.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg817g9a9ymbasi/AADTmXUVxmFfM58bcyYE7yiwa?dl=0

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It works great with the title, and I could get it to do the description but I couldnt figure out how to get it to do both at the same time since I'm not a programmer. I tried a bunch of different things that I thought would work but they didnt.

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I'm pretty sure that I have a script that writes to both, I'll dig it up when I have time...

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That would be great! I downloaded Bridge Utility Script Pack and that worked great for putting the file name in the title metatag. I could do a search and replace the word title with description and then it did description. But since I'm not a programer i couldnt figure out how to add description to the title scipt. I wish someone had a script that you could have the option to populate any and all the metatag data. Right now I'm running two scripts in Bridge and in Photoshop I'm added Copyright, Copyright Notice and Author with a action. Thank you for your help!

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Hello 🙂

I tried to use this script, but it didn't work.

I copied the the text that is in gray, paste it to TextEdit (after I created a Text only document), I saved it and then replaced the extension to jsx. I put it in the scripts folder of bridge, I can see it under the Tool menu, but when I select it, nothting happen to the selected image. I'm on Mac, OS 12.6.3, Adobe Bridge 2022.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Thank you very much

Shlomit

 

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@Shlomit Heymann – It's not you, it isn't working, let me see what I can do...

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@Shlomit Heymann – look for the code updated and tested with Bridge 2022.

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Thank you so much! It worked.

 

I'm only not sure weather I would like to replace the extising one or to add it to it. I think I would like to replace it because the reason I was looking for this type of scrip is that Apple Photos takes the description and use it as caption that I can see  on the iPhone Photos app. To me it's a good solution. 

 

One thing that I noitece is that now it adds a semicolon to an existing description but will not add a apace after it. 

 

Anyway this is fantastic to me 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Stephan,

Do you know of a script that adds text to existing description even if it's multiple values for multiple images? I was trying to look for it but didn't find any.

Thank you 🙂

shlomit

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Hi @Shlomit Heymann 

 

You can find the following line:

 

xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");

 

And either delete it or comment it out by adding a double forward slash in front //

 

//xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");

 

The current code uses a semi-colon ; separator when it appends new metadata, but that can be changed:

 

if(Desc != "") Desc+= ";";

 

To:

 

if(Desc != "") Desc+= ", ";

 

For a comma and space separator.

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@Stephen_A_Marsh Thank you so much! this is fantastic 🙂 I also deleted the  word Test from the script. This is such a big help for me. Much appriciated 🙂

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@Shlomit Heymann – You're welcome!

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MarkLane1 

 

It turns out that I didn't have a script that writes the filename to both the Description and Title metadata fields.

 

I have adjusted an existing script for Description to also include the Title:

 

/* Original script modified by Stephen Marsh - 2021
https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge/bridge-script-to-write-filename-to-description-credit-line-andtitle-lines/td-p/10489128
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2009311 */

#target bridge

if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge") {
    FT = MenuElement.create("command", "Add Filename to Description and Title", "at the end of Tools");
}

FT.onSelect = function () {
    var thumbs = app.document.selections;
    if (!thumbs.length) return;
    if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");

    for (var a in thumbs) {
        var selectedFile = thumbs[a].spec;
        var FileName = decodeURI(selectedFile.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
        var myXmpFile = new XMPFile(selectedFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);
        var myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();
        var Desc = [];
        var Title = [];
        var descCount = myXmp.countArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
        var titleCount = myXmp.countArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");

        for (var i = 1; i <= descCount; i++) {
            Desc.push(myXmp.getArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", i));
        }

        for (var i = 1; i <= titleCount; i++) {
            Title.push(myXmp.getArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title", i));
        }

        Desc = Desc.toString() + " " + FileName;
        Title = Desc;

        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", Desc, 0, XMPConst.ALIAS_TO_ALT_TEXT);
        myXmp.setQualifier(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description[1]", "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "lang", "x-default");

        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");
        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title", Title, 0, XMPConst.ALIAS_TO_ALT_TEXT);
        myXmp.setQualifier(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title[1]", "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "lang", "x-default");

        if (myXmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) {
            myXmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);
            myXmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
        }
    }
}

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

 

 

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I was searching for a way to do just this, and found the original Script by John Beardsworth works with changes to the meta line needed. But I was wondering, is there a way to have only part of the file name placed into each line, on mass?
eg. I have a filename structure of:  

ABCD 0123 ABCD AB-CD AB19 0123 AB19 AB19.jpg

so sections:

A B C D E F G H.jpg

Basicly a whole mix of alphanumerics some fixed length some not. All delimiters are spaces (but can be anything).

I was wondering if it was possible to write section A to, say, Comments. B to City, C to Source, D to Headline, etc....

So far I've been doing it long hand by renaming the files to only the relevant section Setting the metadata with johns script and reverting the filename, repeating for each section. I am using a dusted off copy of cs6 as i cant get these to run in CC.
I know there is a way to do this in ExifTool but I'm still learning the syntax and cant figure out the right commands, plus if im not around at least someone else can just hit a button in Bridge with out me explaining how to work Exiftool to them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm not following the pattern, however, once a consistent pattern is found it should be easy enough with a regular expression or another method...

 

Please colour code or bold the source:

 

ABCD 0123 ABCD AB-CD AB19 0123 AB19 AB19.jpg

 

So that I can see how you get:

 

A B C D E F G H.jpg

 

And it is usally best to supply more than one set of before after, say 3 to 6 examples just in case the pattern is not consistent.

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