IPTC stationary select/deselect all

[vAfotoriporter]

It would make a lot of IPTC editings easyer to have a select/deselect all button for selecting or deselecting all fields, since I often miss to uncheck all the boxes and some of them gets overwritten mistakenly.

[NeilR]

You could set up a snapshot with all items checked, and a snapshot with all items UNchecked.  I did something similar trying to solve a similar problem.

Neil

[vAfotoriporter]

You could set up a snapshot with all items checked, and a snapshot with all items UNchecked.  I did something similar trying to solve a similar problem.

Yes but doing so would erase the content of the fields not necerssarily wanted avery time.
In my case there are cases I set or change all or most of the fields, but in certain cases my goal is to change only one or two fields. In this case it is more easier to press a deselect all, and then select only the needed, than deselect them all manually.

Since I may need to change one field on a next selection of images (either to the same as last time, or a partially changed version of it) on my part it would be more troubble to clear the fields with a pre saved snapshot.

[Kirk Baker]

You could set up a snapshot with all items checked, and a snapshot with all items UNchecked.  I did something similar trying to solve a similar problem.

Yes but doing so would erase the content of the fields not necerssarily wanted avery time.
In my case there are cases I set or change all or most of the fields, but in certain cases my goal is to change only one or two fields. In this case it is more easier to press a deselect all, and then select only the needed, than deselect them all manually.

Since I may need to change one field on a next selection of images (either to the same as last time, or a partially changed version of it) on my part it would be more troubble to clear the fields with a pre saved snapshot.

I don't want to add more buttons to those dialogs unless it cannot be helped.  We could add a shortcut, say hold down the Shift (or Option on Mac) when you click on a checkbox and whatever that checkbox turns into when it toggles, then all checkboxes would get the same state.

I think that would work.

-Kirk

[Primoz]

Solution with snapshot for all fields unchecked works fine for me. When archiving, I add tag with disk number to photos, and at that time I leave everything unchecked except for one field. This leaves data in all other fields, except for checked one. With one snapshot called "empty" (with all but one fields unchecked) and one snapshot called "normal" (with all fields checked), I can easily switch between normal IPTC layout and this "empty" one.
But if you have all fields checked, then of course it will replace all fields.

[vAfotoriporter]

I don't want to add more buttons to those dialogs unless it cannot be helped.  We could add a shortcut, say hold down the Shift (or Option on Mac) when you click on a checkbox and whatever that checkbox turns into when it toggles, then all checkboxes would get the same state.

I think that would work.

This sounds a great solution. My wish is not a new button, but to be able to get to the function no matter what way ot goes....and PM is really great in it.
,-))

[vAfotoriporter]

When may we hope to see this possibility in PM come true?

[Kirk Baker]

When may we hope to see this possibility in PM come true?

Yes, it is likely that I will implement this in a future version of PM.

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

Yes, it is likely that I will implement this in a future version of PM.

I hope you will soon, thanks for the answer!

[vAfotoriporter]

When may we hope to see this possibility in PM come true?

Yes, it is likely that I will implement this in a future version of PM.

-Kirk

Is there an estimate for which version we will see it?

[Kirk Baker]

When may we hope to see this possibility in PM come true?

Yes, it is likely that I will implement this in a future version of PM.

Is there an estimate for which version we will see it?

It is on my list of tasks for 4.6.

-Kirk

[vAfotoriporter]

When may we hope to see this possibility in PM come true?

Yes, it is likely that I will implement this in a future version of PM.

Is there an estimate for which version we will see it?

It is on my list of tasks for 4.6.

-Kirk

Thanks Kirk! Both for the feature and for the answer too!