Author Topic: Ability to trigger EVAL on Photos  (Read 102 times)

Offline cparen3

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Ability to trigger EVAL on Photos
« on: Yesterday at 01:28:58 AM »
Since the Find & Replace panel now has the ability to "Evaluate variables and code replacements in replacement string", it would be great to have another way to be able to trigger this function. Ideally a menu option, keyboard shortcut, or just a more widespread option to trigger on multiple photos would be great.

Having to open the metadata panel for every individual photo to run it is super cumbersome, this would allow much more flexibility.


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Re: Ability to trigger EVAL on Photos
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 09:34:47 AM »
Since the Find & Replace panel now has the ability to "Evaluate variables and code replacements in replacement string", it would be great to have another way to be able to trigger this function. Ideally a menu option, keyboard shortcut, or just a more widespread option to trigger on multiple photos would be great.

Where would the result be output?

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Re: Ability to trigger EVAL on Photos
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 10:27:42 PM »
I'm not asking for another way to run the Find & Replace, I'm asking for a way to force Photo Mechanic to "Evaluate" any variables, code replacements, etc. that it finds not run.

E.g. if I apply a {headline} through the keywords panel, it doesn't render the variable, just puts that text in.

I want to be able to run the Evaluate feature and have all those types of variables, code replacements, etc. (that haven't been changed) evaluated in each image.