Duplicating Field Info to Specified Records?

[virgonova]

I'm importing jpg images from various stock photo CD's, I have a Photographer field that should list the stock house & CD name:

Photographer: Getty Images/Outdoor Adventure

How do I specify to auto fill this info with each CD import? Each CD will have a different stock house & CD name.

I've researched metadata import but this goes beyond my skill level and only the stock house info (not the CD name) is listed in the jpg metadata

[T-Square]

Off the top of my head, I'd have a global field for the incoming StockHouse that I would put on my "Import From CD" layout. Then, I'd define my Image::Stock House CD field to use the global field as its default, preserving pre-existing values. Then, I'd have a button on the layout that imported the selected images into the database as new records. As new records are added, they'll get the information in the global field.

HTH,

David

[Slobey]

You could also use the "Replace Field Contents", "Replace with calculated result" script step and leave the field as a straight text.