Problem with keywords

[lMarcrest]

Not understanding fully how to work with keywords, I just started creating keywords. Now my list is so long and I see that I can group some of the keywords into categories. For example I need to track 2 dates (a created date and a received date). The former keyword reads, "01/01/17" at the root level, for Jan 1, 2017 and the latter keyword reads, "05Mar17" at the root level, for Mar 5, 2017.

So I tried to create a new keyword called "Date Created" with sub keywords and then dragged the root level keyword into the "Date Created" keyword as a sub keyword. Although the moved keyword (now a sub keyword) appears correctly, it's not checked as it was at the root level. Also the old root level keyword is still checked and it's still in the root level but now represented in italics.

I tried checking the sub keyword and unchecking the root level keyword but it doesn't seem to hold. I even tried deleting the old root level keyword, but I just lost the connection to my files.

It's all just very confusing… am i missing something?

marcrest

[Stephen Marsh]

Look into the Bridge prefs as follows:

[Stephen Marsh]

BTW: I’m not sure if keywords are the best way to do what you are doing, they are going to get unwieldily… I am thinking that using a custom Bridge metadata panel for the entry would be better (however this it’s own has pros/cons):

Despite using a dedicated date field in the XML, there does not appear to be any system date validation used for entry (unlike default Adobe panels), so as in the example above it is possible to use two different formats when entering data. One way around this would be to use the required date format in the label, for exmple changing Date Created to Created (DD/MM/YY) to indicate the desired date format.

[Stephen Marsh]

This is the XML code for the custom panel above:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<xmp_definitions>
  <xmp_schema prefix='custom_date' namespace='http://ns.custom_date.com/custom_date/' label='$$$/xmp/custom_date/Name=Date Created and Received'>
    <xmp_property name='DateCreated' category='external' description='$$$/xmp/custom_date=Date Created' label='$$$/xmp/custom_date/Date_Created_label=Created (DD/MM/YY)' type='date'/>
    <xmp_property name='DateReceived' category='external' description='$$$/xmp/custom_date=Date Received' label='$$$/xmp/custom_date/Date_Received_label=Received (DD/MM/YY)' type='date'/>
  </xmp_schema>
</xmp_definitions>

This is only a Bridge metadata panel, not to be confused with “file > file info”. A custom tab will not be visible in file info, however the entered data will be visible in the raw data tab.

On the Mac, the installation path is:

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/4.0/custom

While for Win, it could be:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\4.0\custom

(note that you may need to enable visibility for hidden files/folders)

Custom Info Panel as Bridge MetaData Panel

[PECourtejoie · Accepted solution]

Hello,

A keyword in italics is read from the file, and does not exist in your bridge KW hierarchy.

the sub keyword under date created is unchecked, because it has not been applied to that file, the root one has.

See the help files: https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/keywords-adobe-bridge.html

and this article: http://www.creativepro.com/article/take-charge-with-bridge-creating-a-keywords-list

[PECourtejoie]

But I concur that custom metadata would be more useful to track dates, rather than keywords.