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Offline tj

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Text Exporter- Structured Keywords entire path
« on: June 02, 2017, 03:41:28 PM »
When we apply structured keywords to individual images we only use the single keyword ("Add keyword") not the entire path= parent + child. When we print out the image with watermark, we only want the child to show as a variable in the watermark in the bottom corner of the image. But,,, when we export to an excel spreadsheet, we want the entire path to be exported text so we can do a Data/ Sort in excel. I think we need a Variable in the Export/ Text Exporter that allows us to print the whole structured path or even two variables, one for parent and one for child separated by {tab}, of course. We also text export other IPTC info to excel with each image, so we want each row to have other relevant image info rather than just the Structured keywords. We also typically text export 3000 to 4000 images at a time, sometimes as many as 15,000.
For example, struct. keyword path = ANIMALS: DOGS; we only want DOGS in the watermarked image, but we want the whole path exported as text so we can easily sort for
ANIMALS: DOGS, or ANIMALS: CATS, etc.
vs.
PEOPLE: BOY, PEOPLE: GIRL
vs.
PLANT, etc.
Is that possible? or is there another way to achieve the same result?

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Re: Text Exporter- Structured Keywords entire path
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2017, 03:49:53 PM »
When we apply structured keywords to individual images we only use the single keyword ("Add keyword") not the entire path= parent + child. When we print out the image with watermark, we only want the child to show as a variable in the watermark in the bottom corner of the image. But,,, when we export to an excel spreadsheet, we want the entire path to be exported text so we can do a Data/ Sort in excel. I think we need a Variable in the Export/ Text Exporter that allows us to print the whole structured path or even two variables, one for parent and one for child separated by {tab}, of course. We also text export other IPTC info to excel with each image, so we want each row to have other relevant image info rather than just the Structured keywords. We also typically text export 3000 to 4000 images at a time, sometimes as many as 15,000.
For example, struct. keyword path = ANIMALS: DOGS; we only want DOGS in the watermarked image, but we want the whole path exported as text so we can easily sort for
ANIMALS: DOGS, or ANIMALS: CATS, etc.
vs.
PEOPLE: BOY, PEOPLE: GIRL
vs.
PLANT, etc.
Is that possible? or is there another way to achieve the same result?

No, and without some type of scripting language embedded into the {keywords} variable so you could control the iteration, it just can't be achieved.  There can be multiple hierarchical keyword paths, each being much deeper than simply two levels deep, and non-hierarchical keywords can be mixed in as well.

I know of no way to do what you're asking to be able to do.

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