Help with Variables

[JonHob]

Hi

I’ve just started sports shooting for a nother agency and they require the names of the main people in the caption, to also be entered in the Key Words and, Persons Shown(?).

To help save me a lot of time, is there a variable that can do this?


Jon

[Kirk Baker]

Jon,

I’ve just started sports shooting for a nother agency and they require the names of the main people in the caption, to also be entered in the Key Words and, Persons Shown(?).

To help save me a lot of time, is there a variable that can do this?

If you entered all of the names into "Persons Shown" then you could use the {persons} variable in any other field to expand them.  Whether a simple list of names will be useful in all other locations is not known to me (you didn't provide an example) but you can give it a try.

-Kirk

[JonHob]

Hi Kirk.

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve tried putting {persons} variable in keywords hoping the two or three names would be picked up from the ‘Persons’ field but the names are not picked up. I did have the names separated by a , though?

There will only be 1-3 names in the Persons Shown field that needs copying to the Keywords.

[Kirk Baker]

Jon,

I’ve tried putting {persons} variable in keywords hoping the two or three names would be picked up from the ‘Persons’ field but the names are not picked up. I did have the names separated by a , though?

There will only be 1-3 names in the Persons Shown field that needs copying to the Keywords.

Are you setting person names in one pass and then using the {persons} variable in Keywords in the IPTC Stationery Pad and bulk applying them?  Or are you doing something different?

-Kirk