Detect present rating

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I want a function to detect if the info of an image (not new, but opened from the disk) has indicated a rating (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars)?

I want to open the ACR and (only in some images) mark them with 1 star.

In photoshop, when they are all already opened, I want to diferenciate a behavior of the script depending on the detection of the rating (stars).

Is this possible?

Tks

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

Does this work?

// from a post by michael l hale;
var rating = app.activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData.toString().match(/\<xmp:Rating\>(.+)\<\/xmp:Rating\>/)[1];
alert (rating);

[Guest]

Here is some code that our developer created.  It views the documents photoshop rating and saves to a new location with a new name based on the rating.  It works great.  Oh, and you'll see in there that a dialogue window pops up with radio buttons if no photoshop rating is found.  Then the user can choose 1 - 5 based on where it should be going.

loadXMPLibrary();

var xmp = new XMPMeta(docRef.xmpMetadata.rawData);

documentRating = xmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Rating");

var FillColour = new SolidColor;

FillColour.rgb.hexValue = 'ffffff';

app.backgroundColor= FillColour;

if(documentRating!=undefined && documentRating.value!=0){

    hasRating = true;

}

else{

    var dlg = new Window("dialog", "Choose Position");

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl = dlg.add("panel", undefined, PANEL_MESSAGE_TEXT);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p1Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[0]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p2Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[1]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p3Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[2]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p4Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[3]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p5Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[4]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p6Btn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("radiobutton", undefined, positionStringArray[5]);

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.okBtn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("button", undefined, "OK", {name:"ok"});

    dlg.alertBtnsPnl.cancelBtn = dlg.alertBtnsPnl.add("button", undefined, "Cancel", {name:"cancel"});

    var dialogReturn = dlg.show();

    if(dialogReturn==1){//if dialogReturn is one, the ok button was clicked, if it equals 2 the cancel button was clicked

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p1Btn.value){documentRating=1;};

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p2Btn.value){documentRating=2;};

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p3Btn.value){documentRating=3;};

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p4Btn.value){documentRating=4;};

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p5Btn.value){documentRating=5;};

        if(dlg.alertBtnsPnl.p6Btn.value){documentRating=6;};

    }

}

if(documentRating==undefined){

    if(dialogReturn!=2){

        alert ("You've failed to select a rating, please try again");

    }

}

else if(dialogReturn!=2){

    selRef.makeWorkPath(0);

    var thisWorkPath = docRef.pathItems.getByName("Work Path");

    thisWorkPath.makeSelection();

    try{

        var existingWorkPath = docRef.pathItems.getByName(PATH_TEXT);

        existingWorkPath.remove();

    }

    catch(e){

    }

    thisWorkPath.name = PATH_TEXT;

    xmp.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_XMP, "Rating", documentRating);

    docRef.xmpMetadata.rawData = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);