How to display categories in the thumbnail panel?

[manfred_a]

In the thumbnail panel I found how to display the keywords but how can I display the categories?
In IM3 it was very easy by using the variable {Image.Categories}.

Regards Manfred

[Mario]

It is as easy in IMatch 5.

Choose Custom Template for one of the attributes in your file window layout. Then insert a mix of literal text and variables in the Custom Template field. For example:




The variable is

{File.Categories.Direct|replace:~;==~; }


This replaces the semicolon used to separate categories with semicolon<blank> so the category names can wrap inside the thumbnail panel. If you have many categories, reserve more space in the panel by specifying Size as 100 pixels or so.



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[Darius1968]

Yes, I just tried this, and it is causing IMatch to hand & freeze.  What to do? 

[Mario]

See: https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=1590.msg0

[Photon]

Yes, this is an old topic, but I think the subject is still relevant.

The method with {File.Categories.Direct|replace:~;==~; } works good and fast for my thumbnail view.
This, because I like to have the choice regarding display of Categories and/or @Keywords of my images. 

However the drawback is, that the complete keyword tree is displayed for all categories
E.g. FileExtensions|JPG; Who|Smith|Martin; Where|Country|Town; event|birthday; ...
What if you want to limit the display to certain categories or one category only?
An what if you want to display just the name of the lowest level of this tree?

May be it is better to use only @Keywords if the display of these words is required?
I really like and need this display in the thumbnail view. Any other ideas how to solve this?

Kind Regards,

Martin

[Photon]

Elsewhere in the forum I found the solution with filters like e.g. {File.Categories.Direct|filter:^Who;level:leaf} or {File.Categories.Direct|filter:^Where;level:leaf} if youi need to display only names or cities of your Where and Who hierarchy. I am not yet an expert with this kind of programming and it takes a while to search and collect all good information is this forum.
Is there any better source of information? Can someone give us a link to a good website with all required commands for such tasks?

Thanks for wonderful Imatch and best regards, Martin

[jch2103]

The FAQ, Workflow, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks section of the Community (https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?board=44.0) was set up so users could share useful information. But it depends on users actually posting information, and there doesn't seem to have been a lot of activity lately (hint, hint).

[Ferdinand]

This sort of formatting has been discussed mainly in relation to metadata templates, and I've got a FAQ on that:
https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?action=post;topic=433.0;last_msg=26834

I got most of this from the help file discussion of variable formatting, which I found to be quite clear.