File renamer and ImageTitle update

[ThomasAdams]

Hello,

One of the first things I did previously with images was to rename them with a unique file name. I did this via scripting in previous versions of IMatch. I am attempting to replicate my workflow with IMatch 2017 and after an hour of searching and reading through help documents I am stumped. Currently I am close (see attached image).

Using File Renamer I am able to obtain the file naming scheme I have been using, however I am unable to update the ImageTitle like in previous versions. I have the areas highlighted I would like to update and in the File Renamer one of many attempts I have tried to write the new ImageTitle.

I would appreciate any help you can provide, thank you.

Regards,
Tom

[P.Jones]

If I understand you correctly you wish to make the 'Title' the same as the 'File name'

First rename you file - rename.png

Create and run a  Metadata Template - mt.png

[ThomasAdams]

If I understand you correctly you wish to make the 'Title' the same as the 'File name'

First rename you file - rename.png

Create and run a  Metadata Template - mt.png

Thank you for taking the time to respond I appreciate it. What you suggest is on one of the first things I attempted on test images, albeit slightly different (see attached). When it did not work, I tried using the "Delete Existing contents" option. When that did not work I also attempted looking through all the tags and trying any that had "title" in the word. So far no luck. However I will try exactly as your example shows and see what happens.

[ubacher]

You want to put the file name into an file attribute called ImageTitle.
It seems the metadata templates don't consider attributes as metadata and so won't let you set it.

It seems you replicate a lot of metadata which is already in the file and put it into attributes. How did you get it there? Via script?

[ThomasAdams]

You want to put the file name into an file attribute called ImageTitle.
It seems the metadata templates don't consider attributes as metadata and so won't let you set it.

It seems you replicate a lot of metadata which is already in the file and put it into attributes. How did you get it there? Via script?

ubacher,

Thank you for taking the time to respond, this is a freshly updated database from 3.6. The attributes must have came over from IMatch 3.6 as they are identical to the property database I used. I believe ( and I could be wrong) that at the time I entered those in order to have the data for offline images. I am thinking much of this is just redundant at this point, like you state it is already in the file. Perhaps its time to take it out...

Please see attached image of the Attributes I currently have listed:

Regards,
Tom

[Mario]

When converting legacy IMatch 3 databases, IMatch 2017 automatically converts properties to Attributes. See also the database converter help, which explains what is converted and how. If you don't need the Attributes anymore, you can delete them.

Since version 5, IMatch uses a 'always-cached' metadata approach. IMatch always caches a copy of all metadata in the database, to make all the magic work