I am a new user of Gallery Server Pro (and love it). I use Adobe Lightroom for my photo collection and fill the metadata fields as professional organisations are doing; IPTC and extra XMP fields (although lightroom puts IPTC data also in XMP). I enter the title in the IPTC headline field and leave the EXIF/windows title field empty. According to documentation found on the web and several discussion forums the title field is used for a reference code, the original filename etc and not to be used as a title/headline for a photo. It is confusing as they used the fieldname "Title".

Some document/site references:
Discussion on adobe lightroom forum
pdf doc IPTC standard v1.1 (search for title and headline and read the explanation)
pdf document IPTC XMP core scheme (again search for title and headline)
Guide to Photo Metadata Fields

When I export my photos from Lightroom and synchronise them with Gallery Server Pro the title below the thumbnails/images contain the filename instead of the IPTC headline field as the "Title" field is used instead of the IPTC headline field.

Searching this forum I saw some discussions regarding the functionality of the microsoft component to read metadata. So I do not now if it is possible to read the IPTC headline field (but as it is stored in XMP it should be).

I could modify the GSP source, but that doesn't have my preference. So for time being only trick I can think of is making use of exiftool to copy the IPTC headline field to the title field. But this is also not a sustainable option.

So best option would be to have an GSP preference which let the user define if the "title"or the "IPTC headline" field needs to be used for the photo title. Or even beter which one has preference on the other, so if the first one is empty the second one is used (if it contains data of course).

Regards,
Jan-Willem
The Netherlands

Roger,

Some months ago, but you were bussy developing the DNN module and I testing it and giving feedback. As I started to use the DNN module in practice I stumbled again over this issue.

On 9-May I sent you an email with the requested example picture. For me and probably other users the ideal situation would be a settings screen in which can be selected what IPTC or EXIF field ends up in the Thumbnail and/or compressed image title & fields in EXIF info dialog of GSP.

Do you have any thoughts about this and what possible timeline would be? If it wil take some time I have to look for an intermediate solution, but this does not have my preference as I managed to upload to my website straight away and controllable from lightroom via the plugin FTP Publisher.

I am happy to give more info etc. if required

Regards,
Jan-Willem

Win explorer does not show much. I have a freeware gui somewhere which is build on top of exiftool. This makes it easy for you to see and modify these fields in an image to play around. I will have a look for it today/tomorrow.

Also another "wild" idea: it can also be solved by implementing a template function for this dialog which accepts HTML code with tokens for available fields. Each user can then modify the exif dialog if wanted. By default template content is then the same as current screen.

Jan-Willem

Found it quicker then thought:

1. Download exiftool (the windows executable is enough):
exiftool

2. Download ExiftoolGUI:
ExiftoolGUI

3. Extract both files and copy the exiftool executable into the exiftoolgui folder while renaming it to exiftool.exe

4. save my example photo to harddrive

5. start exiftoolgui and point to the example image


At top right you can click on the info categories (EXIF, IPT, XMP). The button below a category makes it possible to modify this info.

Under IPTC you find the field "headline" with "Afrikaanse olifant" (African Elephant). The caption field is named here "Caption abstract" in this case its filled with same info as in headline.

Regards,
Jan-Willem

Vlasta - Don't worry, the original behavior will be available as an option, regardless of how this is modified.

Jan-Willem - Thanks for the info about the ExifTool. I am still unclear what you want. I opened the photo you sent me last May and removed all EXIF data, then imported it into GSP. By default the text "Afrikaanse olifant" was used for the title, so .NET is clearly getting it from the IPTC or XMP sections. But I thought that is what you were asking for, so I am confused.

How about this: Please send me an image that, when imported into GSP, yields the "undesirable" behavior (and tell me what that undesirable behavior is). Then describe what you *want* to happen.

Roger,

Compiling document with info from research I did today & created example photos. Are you using a standard windows method? Because I see the same issue with the properties dialog in windows explorer.

Jan-Willem

Attached zip-file with the pdf document describing the results of my research and more detailed description of my feature request. Included also the 4 example images. .

Regards,
Jan-Willem