Comments on: Simplify Entry of Common Metadata in Lightroom 2

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:41:26 +0000

@Andy, I’ve seen situations when it appears the photo metadata was not retained. In these cases if I selected just one photo then arrowed through the others that were already selected they actually did have the metadata applied (it just didn’t look that way.

Other alternative is you were in loupe view when updating the metadata. The metadata panel is only available in grid view and changes in Library module only affect multiple photos when in grid view, not loupe view.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Thanks kindly for a needed addition to the metadata entry panel. However, when I have more than one image selected and enter info in the new locations fields, only the first image retains the info. What’s going on there?

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Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:39:52 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:05:30 +0000

Bob, thanks for passing them on. I’m planning to release an update to this plugin later today and it will include a tagset with all known third party metadata tokens. These have now been added to that list.

By: Bob Rockefeller

Bob Rockefeller — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:44:34 +0000

Jeffery was kind enough to reply to a direct email. The references are:

info.regex.lightroom.export.flickr2.url
info.regex.lightroom.export.flickr2.uploaded

and

info.regex.lightroom.export.facebook2.url
info.regex.lightroom.export.facebook2.uploaded

I tried the .uploaded tags and they worked fine.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:48:47 +0000

Hi Bob,

I don’t have a directory of Jeffrey’s tagset fields yet but a good starting point would be including all of the fields from an individual plugin. You can usually do this by placing a “.*” at the end of the plugin’s identifier. e.g. I would include an entry for “info.regex.lightroom.export.facebook2.*” to display all of Jeffrey’s Facebook plugin custom metadata.

To work out the unique ID for each plugin the only sure fire way I know of is to open the preferences file and browse for it. To find your preferences file, while in Lightroom open up the Edit/Preferences menu option, click on the “Show Lightroom Presets Folder…” button, then navigate to the Lightroom/Preferences subdirectory once Explorer/Finder appears. This directory should contain a Lightroom 2 Preferences.agprefs file. Open that up in a text file editor and search for the string ‘[”sdk_’ (without the single quotes). This will show you the opening line for each plugin’s preferences, and each line that starts with ‘[”sdk_info.regex’ (again, without the single quotes) is a Jeffrey Friedl plugin. The text after the ‘[”sdk_’ (… you get he picture) is the unique identifier for the plugin and all metadata entries implemented by the plugin should use this prefix.

Hope that helps you find the information you are looking for.

By: Bob Rockefeller

Bob Rockefeller — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:07:08 +0000

Nice plug-in! Do you have a directory of any non-Adobe metadata tags, such as those from Jeffery Friedl, to use as a reference for adding other metadata to a tagset?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:48:58 +0000

Eric, I’ll drop you a line with some feedback about the documentation. Thanks for your interest in improving this!

UPDATE: Feedback sent. Please let me know if you haven’t received it yet.

By: Eric Scouten

Eric Scouten — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:14:28 +0000

Hey Matt, would you drop me a line on my Adobe e-mail account? I’d like to hear what problems you encountered with the documentation so we can try to address those next time around.

Thanks!