Sbs file is basically xml or something .
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/obxx1dug7hhkvq3/sbs.jpg?dl=0)
I set the file category is "green" , tag is "smallnoise" , description is "just_text", Lable is "small" . I see all those if I open the file as a text in any text editor. I can find the file by a searcher that could look for specific word for example.
<category v="green"/><label v="small"/><tags v="smallnoise"/><description v="just_test"/><icon><datalength v="164418"/><format v="png"/><strdata
it's what I see in the file https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzy1njad7yi7yqz/test.sbs?dl=0
Can I have Imatch see those things too somehow and use in a data driven category or something ?
ps. Or just any way to import or just "find text" or something to not re-assign all those things manually again ?
Adobe's Substance Designer (I assume you mean that) is a very specialized software. Does Adobe's Experience Manager DAM not handle these files?
I understand you have added .SBS as a user format (?) to IMatch so you can manage the files?
ExifTool does not support this format and so IMatch does not import metadata for it.
I see two solutions:
1. You convince Phil from ExifTool to add support for this format (it may be too exotic, though).
2. You find somebody who writes an IMatch Import app which understands the XML format used by SBS, extracts the data you want and puts it into XMP hierarchicalkeywords, descriptions, whatever.
Or maybe writes a Python script or whatever which extracts the data you want and puts it into a XMP sidecar file for the SBS. IMatch would then pick up the info automatically.
Both options are not hard to do and should take only a couple of hours.
oh, I understand . I tried to learn Python but my guess I will have time for mastering it not before my retirement . So not soon.
Maybe we could just have "find text" filter in Match? and then assign a category manually. Must be slow my guess but better than no at all
ps. Never heard of Experience Manager and still have no idea why I might be in need of it after looking through its web page :)
QuoteMaybe we could just have "find text" filter in Match?
IMatch has filters which search and find text in metadata and Attributes.
IMatch imports the metadata from the files and stored it in the database. Then it is searchable and usable for many other things.
IMatch has no features which search arbitrary external text files in the file system.
And even then, this filter would need to understand the XML you work with, in order to find the data...
IMatch is a very extensible application. I have outlined how you could integrate the proprietary data of your files into standard XMP metadata.