IPTC Stationary Pad issue

[tommycampbell]

I have PM v4.6.5 on OSX 10.6.4. I'm trying to add {year4},{mnn3:lc} to the keyword field in the IPTC Stationary Pad and save it as a template. When I save the template, only the {year4} part gets saved. I can manually put the variables in and everything works fine, I just can't save it as a template/pre-set. Any ideas?

[Kirk Baker]

Tommy,

I have PM v4.6.5 on OSX 10.6.4. I'm trying to add {year4},{mnn3:lc} to the keyword field in the IPTC Stationary Pad and save it as a template. When I save the template, only the {year4} part gets saved. I can manually put the variables in and everything works fine, I just can't save it as a template/pre-set. Any ideas?

What happens if you use a different variable for the month name, or just remove the 'lc'?  What happens if you put the {mnn3:lc} into a different field?

-Kirk

[tommycampbell]

If I leave off the :lc, it works. I also tried putting the {mmn3:lc} into another field by itself and it kept it. I also put {year4},{mnn3:lc} into another field and saving it works fine. I tried a little experiment by adding {year4}, {mnn3:lc} to every field and saving it. The before image show the dialog before saving to a new name. The after.png image show the dialog after clicking the clear button and reloading it.

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[tommycampbell]

A little more info:

I just tried reversing the two variables ( {mnn3:lc}, {year4} ) and it saves just fine. I also noticed that if I open up the stationary pad and just put {year4}, {mnn3:lc} and click the Apply Stationary to Selected button, all the selected photos will only have the {year4} variable applied.

If I put another keyword at the end like {year4},{mnn3:lc}, family , the whole thing gets applied.

So it seems I can work around it by putting the {mnn3:lc} first.

[Kirk Baker]

Tommy,

A little more info:

I just tried reversing the two variables ( {mnn3:lc}, {year4} ) and it saves just fine. I also noticed that if I open up the stationary pad and just put {year4}, {mnn3:lc} and click the Apply Stationary to Selected button, all the selected photos will only have the {year4} variable applied.

If I put another keyword at the end like {year4},{mnn3:lc}, family , the whole thing gets applied.

So it seems I can work around it by putting the {mnn3:lc} first.

I'll consider that a bug and see what I can do to fix it.  All of the fields that have an issue with {year4},{mnn3:lc} are repeating fields (can contain a list of items separated by commas or optionally, semi-colons) so there must be some issue with that.

Thank you for the detailed explanation.  It really helps a lot.

-Kirk