Hi Team PM,
I did a forum search and a search in the manual to see if I could find something that would point in the direction of my question. Since I did not find anything, I'll ask here.
I am trying to use part of the file names in a larger scope of images to populate the "EVENT" IPTC field. Since the file names are structured it's no problem isolating the desired value.
The filenames are in this format: YYYYMMDD_Event_OriginalFileName_SEQ i.e. 20190306_Motor Race_DSX7744_0001.NEF
So, in the Find/Replace dialogue I have ticked GREP and used the search term
([0-9]{8})(_)(.*)(_)
And the replace term
$3
No problem so far. PM correctly extracts the Event only and replaces correctly in the file name. So, now that I have the event extracted - how do I use that to populate the Event IPTC field? Does PM have this kind of functionality? It would appear that the standard behavior is to replace in the same field that it finds?
Any help is appreciated. Many thanks!