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Fred1:
--- Quote from: glynor on September 04, 2015, 03:18:19 pm ---Why? You can make as many custom fields as you want. I probably have 30 or 40 in my Library that I use from time to time.
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No, the custom fields are no problem.
The great number of expressions (and therefore columns in the view) makes the view a bit complex and confusing to find the right expression. But making different views for different cleanups might indeed reduce the complexity.
The next problem i face: I can't input "[" (Alt-5) and "]" (Alt-6) and all other letters that require the Alt-key (i'm on a german keyboard). The fields simply don't accept the keys. Pasting them from the clipboard works, however. A bug in MC?
blgentry:
--- Quote from: Fred1 on September 05, 2015, 03:45:51 am ---That sounds interesting but i can't quite imagine it.
Could you please make a screenshot of such a view, so i can have a look on it?
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See the screen shot attached. These Panes with saved expressions are really more like saved searches. See the red arrow pointing to the first pane? Those are saved expressions that filter my list of files based on the cover art. The one I'm pointing to only shows me cover art that's less than 480 x 480 pixels. The one above that, "no art" is a saved expression that looks for the [Image File] field being empty (so it has no cover art). I can add as many of these to this Pane as I want, based on what I'm looking for.
The next Pane over, with the yellow arrow is another saved expression pane. This time, it's looking for a custom field that I made called [Image_approved]. Some images are too small or something, but I still keep them anyway and I don't want to continually have them show up in this maintenance view because I've already deemed them to be "good enough". So I set the image approved flag on those. When I select that pane's value of "remove approved", it filters out everything I have set with "image approved", so I can work on the other images without being bothered by those others getting in the way.
I had imagined that you might make 5, 6, 7 or more saved searches that find different types of problems you have identified in your metadata. For example, you said you want to remove "(Live)" in some fields. You could make a saved search in one of your Panes that shows only that. Or that shows that string only if certain other conditions are met. You could make as many of these as you want, to find various common metadata problems. I have a view that shows me Artists that start with "the" and artists that end with " , the ". This could simply be a saved expression in a Pane like I'm talking about.
Now, in terms of saving your Expressions that do the work, the only way I know of doing this is putting them in Expression Columns. You can add these Expression Columns to these Views and use them in conjunction with the saved searches in the Panes. The columns will immediately show you the results and if you like them, you can cut and paste the expressions from the columns into the Tagging Pane to save these values and fix your metadata.
I hope my idea makes sense and more importantly, I hope you get something out of it. Either way, good luck to you. :)
Brian.
Fred1:
Brian,
thank you for your explanations and the screenshot - now i got it :).
This is a very sophisticated way to use MC's possibilities.
I will try to implement something similar in my workflow.
Your suggestions will help a lot for my extensive re-tagging project.
Fred
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