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Offline Kevin M. Cox

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Ingest Locked to one folder and Unlocked to another folder
« on: January 09, 2016, 10:42:38 AM »
Apologies if this has been brought up before, a quick search didn't find it.

We're sitting here in the workroom before AFC playoff game trying to figure out if there is a way we can make PM Ingest tagged photos into one folder and the untagged photos into another.

The reason being this shooter needs to send tagged photos into a Dropbox folder for automatic transmission to a remote editor, while then retaining the untagged for a second edit tomorrow.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Ingest Locked to one folder and Unlocked to another folder
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2016, 03:27:37 PM »
Kevin,

Apologies if this has been brought up before, a quick search didn't find it.

We're sitting here in the workroom before AFC playoff game trying to figure out if there is a way we can make PM Ingest tagged photos into one folder and the untagged photos into another.

The reason being this shooter needs to send tagged photos into a Dropbox folder for automatic transmission to a remote editor, while then retaining the untagged for a second edit tomorrow.

Any thoughts?

It can be done with variables and Code Replacement.  You can use the {tag} variable which evaluates to "0" for untagged images and "1" for tagged images.  Create a Code Replacement text file like so:

0[tab]Untagged
1[tab]Tagged

(where you see [tab] you would enter an actual tab character by pressing the Tab key.)

Then in your folder naming in Ingest you would do something like this:

/path/to/folder/={tab}=/

(where the equal sign is the Code Replacement delimiter)

Then when the images are copied they will go into Tagged and Untagged folders.  You can choose any legal folder name as the replacements, I just used "Tagged" and "Untagged" for illustration.

HTH,

-Kirk

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Re: Ingest Locked to one folder and Unlocked to another folder
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2016, 08:17:45 PM »
Thanks Kirk. We didn't get a chance to try it but this will come in handy in the future I'm sure.

That said, I think it would be an awesome feature to give both the Primary and Secondary ingest locations their own "Filter Files:" section.
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