Can iMAtch somehow import Substance Designer sbs file own category, tags?

[kirk]

Sbs file is basically xml or  something .



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 ?

[Mario]

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.

[kirk]

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

[Mario]

Maybe  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.