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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
addName
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'
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.onSelUsing 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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@Stephen_A_MarshYour code works well, many thanks.
However, I would like to be able to input the filename to an ITPC field of my choice.
What part of the code would I need to change and is there a list of IPTC fields where I can see what I need to enter instead to get the file name into the desired field (for example: filename to IPTC Job ID).
Many thanks in advance,
Robert
By @Robert Kneschke
@Robert Kneschke – If you are using the IPTC data in a professional setting (news, magazines and other related publications) as intended by the IPTC, there are expectations of what type of data and where it is input.
https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/guidelines-support/
https://iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/mappingguidelines/
http://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/userguide/
If this isn't a concern for you, then you can of course "misuse" any IPTC or other available metadata field for your own personal purposes.
By entering metadata in the required field, then looking at the Raw Data tab, one can determine the namespace and fieldname to use in the script:
Keep in mind that single-line and multi-line entries (arrays) require different JS code.
I am by no means an expert at scripting metadata, I just hack at it.
I generally use the following two resources to try to work out namespaces:
Dumping namespace prefix to URI map (by Paul Riggott):
AEScart: => http://ns.adobe.com/aes/cart/
DICOM: => http://ns.adobe.com/DICOM/
Iptc4xmpCore: => http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/xmlns/
Iptc4xmpExt: => http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpExt/2008-02-29/
adhocwf: => http://ns.adobe.com/AcrobatAdhocWorkflow/1.0/
adobe: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/aggregate/1.0/
album: => http://ns.adobe.com/album/1.0/
as11c: => http://amwa.tv/mxf/as/11/core/
as11s: => http://ns.adobe.com/mxf/as/11/structural/
as11u: => http://amwa.tv/mxf/as/11/ukdpp/
asf: => http://ns.adobe.com/asf/1.0/
aux: => http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/aux/
bext: => http://ns.adobe.com/bwf/bext/1.0/
bmsp: => http://ns.adobe.com/StockPhoto/1.0/
cq: => http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0
creatorAtom: => http://ns.adobe.com/creatorAtom/1.0/
crs: => http://ns.adobe.com/camera-raw-settings/1.0/
custom_date: => http://ns.custom_date.com/custom_date/
dam: => http://www.day.com/dam/1.0
dc: => http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
exif: => http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/
exifEX: => http://cipa.jp/exif/1.0/
iX: => http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/
iXML: => http://ns.adobe.com/ixml/1.0/
jp2k: => http://ns.adobe.com/jp2k/1.0/
jpeg: => http://ns.adobe.com/jpeg/1.0/
lr: => http://ns.adobe.com/lightroom/1.0/
pdf: => http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
pdfaExtension: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
pdfaField: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/field#
pdfaProperty: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
pdfaSchema: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
pdfaType: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/type#
pdfaid: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/
pdfe: => http://www.aiim.org/pdfe/ns/id/
pdfx: => http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/
pdfxid: => http://www.npes.org/pdfx/ns/id/
photoshop: => http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/
plus: => http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/xmp/1.0/
png: => http://ns.adobe.com/png/1.0/
rdf: => http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
riffinfo: => http://ns.adobe.com/riff/info/
stCamera: => http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/camera-profile
stDim: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/Dimensions#
stEvt: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
stFnt: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/Font#
stJob: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/Job#
stMfs: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ManifestItem#
stRef: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
stVer: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/Version#
swf: => http://ns.adobe.com/swf/1.0/
tiff: => http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/
wav: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/wav/1.0/
x: => adobe:ns:meta/
xapG: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g
xml: => http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
xmp: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
xmpBJ: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/bj/
xmpCA: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/ContentAnalysis/
xmpDM: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/
xmpG: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/
xmpGImg: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/img/
xmpMM: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
xmpNote: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/note/
xmpPMAssign: => http://xmlns.sony.net/pro/metadata/planningmetadata/assignment/
xmpPMMemo: => http://xmlns.sony.net/pro/metadata/planningmetadata/memo/
xmpRights: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
xmpScript: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/Script/
xmpT: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/t/
xmpTPg: => http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/t/pg/
xmpidq: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/Identifier/qual/1.0/
xmpx: => http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/transient/1.0/
An addition raised in another topic in the Photoshop forum... The following script can be used to find/replace/remove title data (I believe that this script was most likely written by Paul Riggot):
To clear the title you can use a regular expression find (replacing with nothing):
.+
#target bridge
if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge") {
ReplaceTitle = new MenuElement("command", "Find and Replace in Title", "at the end of tools");
}
ReplaceTitle.onSelect = function () {
var win = new Window('dialog', 'Find & Replace in Title');
g = win.graphics;
var myBrush = g.newBrush(g.BrushType.THEME_COLOR, "appDialogBackground");
g.backgroundColor = myBrush;
win.orientation = 'column';
win.p1 = win.add("panel", undefined, undefined, { borderStyle: "black" });
win.p1.preferredSize = [380, 100];
win.g1 = win.p1.add('group');
win.g1.orientation = "row";
win.title = win.g1.add('statictext', undefined, 'Title Editor');
win.title.alignment = "fill";
var g = win.title.graphics;
g.font = ScriptUI.newFont("Arial", "BOLD", 22);
win.p6 = win.p1.add("panel", undefined, undefined, { borderStyle: "black" }); //Replace
win.p6.preferredSize = [380, 100];
win.g600 = win.p6.add('group');
win.g600.orientation = "row";
win.g600.alignment = 'fill';
win.g600.st1 = win.g600.add('statictext', undefined, 'Replace');
win.g600.st1.preferredSize = [75, 20];
win.g600.et1 = win.g600.add('edittext');
win.g600.et1.preferredSize = [200, 20];
win.g610 = win.p6.add('group');
win.g610.orientation = "row";
win.g610.alignment = 'fill';
win.g610.st1 = win.g610.add('statictext', undefined, 'With');
win.g610.st1.helpTip = "Leave this field blank if you want to remove the characters";
win.g610.st1.preferredSize = [75, 20];
win.g610.et1 = win.g610.add('edittext');
win.g610.et1.preferredSize = [200, 20];
win.g620 = win.p6.add('group');
win.g620.orientation = "row";
win.g620.alignment = 'fill';
win.g620.cb1 = win.g620.add('checkbox', undefined, 'Global');
win.g620.cb1.helpTip = "Replace all occurrences of";
win.g620.cb2 = win.g620.add('checkbox', undefined, 'Case Insensitive');
win.g620.cb2.value = true;
win.g1000 = win.p1.add('group');
win.g1000.orientation = "row";
win.g1000.alignment = 'center';
win.g1000.bu1 = win.g1000.add('button', undefined, 'Process');
win.g1000.bu1.preferredSize = [170, 30];
win.g1000.bu2 = win.g1000.add('button', undefined, 'Cancel');
win.g1000.bu2.preferredSize = [170, 30];
win.g1000.bu1.onClick = function () {
if (win.g600.et1.text == '') {
alert("No replace value has been entered!");
return;
}
win.close(0);
var sels = app.document.selections;
for (var a in sels) {
var thumb = sels[a];
md = thumb.synchronousMetadata;
if (win.g620.cb1.value && !win.g620.cb2.value) var patt = new RegExp(win.g600.et1.text.toString(), "g");
if (!win.g620.cb1.value && win.g620.cb2.value) var patt = new RegExp(win.g600.et1.text.toString(), "i");
if (win.g620.cb1.value && win.g620.cb2.value) var patt = new RegExp(win.g600.et1.text.toString(), "gi");
if (!win.g620.cb1.value && !win.g620.cb2.value) var patt = new RegExp(win.g600.et1.text.toString());
md.namespace = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
var Caption = md.title ? md.title[0] : "";
if (Caption == "") continue;
var result = patt.test(Caption.toString());
if (result == true) {
var newCaption = Caption.replace(patt, win.g610.et1.text.toString());
setTitle(sels[a].spec, newCaption);
}
}
}
win.show();
function setTitle(file, Caption) {
if (!ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');
var xmpf = new XMPFile(File(file).fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);
var xmp = xmpf.getXMP();
xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");
xmp.setLocalizedText(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title", null, "x-default", Caption);
if (xmpf.canPutXMP(xmp)) {
xmpf.putXMP(xmp);
}
xmpf.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
}
};
https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html
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