Default keywords

BigAl · November 13, 2007

I saw this morning that the uploaded filename is no longer a keyword. Is this now the norm?

http://bigal-sa.smugmug.com/gallery/557183#220846867

SPK64 · November 13, 2007

BigAl wrote:

I saw this morning that the uploaded filename is no longer a keyword. Is this now the norm?

http://bigal-sa.smugmug.com/gallery/557183#220846867

Noticed the same thing. I liked it as it saved me the step of deleting them.

Andy · November 14, 2007

BigAl wrote:

Is this now the norm?

I do not know - shouldn't be - let me check into it.

Alan M. Carroll · November 20, 2007

Any update on this?
File name keywords aren't working for me either. I really miss that. I need to know if this is a permanent change requiring me to re-organize my workflow or not.

Alan M. Carroll · November 25, 2007

Still not working
Any new information on whether this is now expected behavior or not?

BigAl · November 26, 2007

Alan M. Carroll wrote:

Any new information on whether this is now expected behavior or not?

Looks like they are avoiding comment on this so it must be the new default (from another Alan

)

Alan M. Carroll · November 28, 2007

Still, kind of annoying
that they're unwilling to go on record as to what the expected behavior should be. Last I checked, the documentation claimed that file name elements were incorporated in to keywords, so official this is a bug.

Andy · November 28, 2007

Alan M. Carroll wrote:

that they're unwilling to go on record as to what the expected behavior should be. Last I checked, the documentation claimed that file name elements were incorporated in to keywords, so official this is a bug.

Ouch - sorry to annoy you! I'm sorry about this, let me keep investigating.

FYI, if you *ever* don't get a speedy answer on Dgrin, email our help desk, our Support Her0es are on call 365 days a year and we answer all emails in a flash.

Now I'll check into this issue again

Andy · November 28, 2007

BigAl wrote:

Looks like they are avoiding comment on this so it must be the new default (from another Alan )

When have you ever known me to avoid comment

Andy · November 28, 2007

Confirmed that the behavior is not as it used to be, nor how we state it should be in our help pages. I've bugged this to our engineers, on our internal bug tracker.

Sorry for the hassle!

pilotdave · November 28, 2007

Andy wrote:

Confirmed that the behavior is not as it used to be, nor how we state it should be in our help pages. I've bugged this to our engineers, on our internal bug tracker.

Sorry for the hassle!

Hopefully the bug fix is to change the documentation. I like it this way.

Dave

Allen · November 28, 2007

BigAl wrote:

I saw this morning that the uploaded filename is no longer a keyword. Is this now the norm?

http://bigal-sa.smugmug.com/gallery/557183#220846867

clap

clap Great, now I don't have to deal with the hundreds of junk
words showing by auto keywords from filenames.

Just the other side chiming in.:D

BigAl · November 28, 2007

Andy wrote:

When have you ever known me to avoid comment

Alan M. Carroll · December 23, 2007

Any change in status?
This is still not working for me.

andreas · January 23, 2008

Hi,
I will line up here, too. I miss the auto keyword thing, since I choose my filenames with caution and especially the included file number wouldn´t have to be typed in again. Now I have to check each photo after uploading to copy at least the unique file number.

huthut · April 6, 2008

I really miss this a lot too. this is one of the key features I love about uploading. I choose filenames base on a specific format, so that despite wherever a photo ends up, in any software package or web site or email, the key data is with it. Ken

andreas · May 4, 2008

Hi,
was there ever an official answer regarding this issue? Still miss the keywords from the file names.

Alan M. Carroll · May 4, 2008

"We're working on it"

andreas wrote:

Hi,
was there ever an official answer regarding this issue? Still miss the keywords from the file names.

Yes. It is a bug, and engineers are working on it. My personal opinion is that if, after 6 months, there's no further status update, it's time to write it off as ever being fixed.

I have been investigating other solutions (and hit a different bug that way), but nothing comes close to the simplicity of just typing the keywords in to the file name. You have to pick a file name anyway, so putting keywords there is (IMHO) nice. I do understand why some people don't like that, though.

I posted this reply primarily to keep the thread alive. Of course, I'm also waiting for plaid bell bottoms to come back in to style.

Andy · May 4, 2008

Alan M. Carroll wrote:

Yes. It is a bug, and engineers are working on it. My personal opinion is that if, after 6 months, there's no further status update, it's time to write it off as ever being fixed.

I have been investigating other solutions (and hit a different bug that way), but nothing comes close to the simplicity of just typing the keywords in to the file name. You have to pick a file name anyway, so putting keywords there is (IMHO) nice. I do understand why some people don't like that, though.

I posted this reply primarily to keep the thread alive. Of course, I'm also waiting for plaid bell bottoms to come back in to style.

It's fixed internally but not live yet, I'm sorry.

lukaitis photo · May 13, 2008

Any idea on when it will be live again?

I could really use it. I don't caption each photo and this little thing really helped with my workflow and being able to find a photo later.

Thanks

lukaitis photo · June 3, 2008

Andy wrote:

It's fixed internally but not live yet, I'm sorry.

Anything yet on this. It is taking me forever to keyword my galleries. This feature was one that I relied on to make sales. Please reinstate it.

BigAl · June 8, 2008

Bump

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Andy · June 8, 2008

BigAl wrote:

Bump :

I am really sorry

I'll try to get Don's attention on this today.

Andy · June 21, 2008

BigAl wrote:

I saw this morning that the uploaded filename is no longer a keyword. Is this now the norm?

http://bigal-sa.smugmug.com/gallery/557183#220846867

Fixed. Sorry for the majorly long hassle

lukaitis photo · June 22, 2008

Thanks

Will that apply only to newly updated galleries?
Or do I still have to go back through the ones uploaded during this downtime?

Andy · June 22, 2008

lukaitis photo wrote:

Thanks

Will that apply only to newly updated galleries?
Or do I still have to go back through the ones uploaded during this downtime?

any files uploaded while the bug was alive would need to be reuploaded, or, just easier, add the keyword manually.

BigAl · June 23, 2008

Andy wrote:

Fixed. Sorry for the majorly long hassle

Thanks!

jh4wvu · June 26, 2008

I thought this was fixed. When we upload photos the filename is not being keyworded automatically. It is only showing up in the description.

Let me know why this is happening.

Thanks,
Chris

pilotdave · June 26, 2008

Andy wrote:

Fixed. Sorry for the majorly long hassle

Dang. I liked it the other way.

How about NOT adding keywords for parts of the filename that won't show up? My files are always numbered... the numbers become keywords. They don't show up as keywords (since they don't have quotes around them), but they are annoying. Have to clear the keywords before adding any.

Dave

darryl · September 18, 2008

Oh yeah, this bug, which pilotdave and allen both agreed was more of a fix, from the perspective of the generation of "junk keywords".

I even wrote a workaround, although it converted filenames to captions, not keywords, on demand:

http://digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?p=826860#post826860

Anyways, after summer break, I am uploading again to SmugMug for my son's school and noticed that the "bug" is fixed, so drat, lots of junk keywords again.

It'd be nice if there was a choice. Maybe you could stick an "Upload" tab in the Control Panel and choose whether to have filenames used as keywords, captions, or nothing at all.

Phanfare's client has a nice set of options that define how captions are imported (see attached).

Default keywords

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