Custom Metadata Panel
Focus your attention on critical metadata in this configurable form. Mix and match standard and custom metadata fields to show the properties critical to your business.
The Custom Metadata Panel provides Enterprises and individuals with a way to focus their attention on critical metadata in one panel.
The panel is completely customizable and helps end users and DAM managers tune their metadata view for maximum accuracy and efficiency. With many form field types and available metadata presets, it expands the metadata capabilities of Creative Cloud Desktop applications without using XML or special coding.
Form fields include:
- Text and Multiple Text
- Language Alternatives for Text Fields
- Numbers and Multiple Numbers
- Tags (like Keywords)
- Dropdown
- Multi-select Dropdown
- Date and Multi-Date
- Checkbox and Checkbox Group
- Switch and Switch Group
- Radio Buttons
- URL and Multiple URL fields that link to external web sites
- Complex structures
- Hidden fields
- AEM Tags (special case just for Adobe Experience Manager)
Other features include a read-only entries, synced field values, section dividers, a built-in form editor, form definition file import and export, and the ability to use a URL as the location for the form. This last feature is ideal for Enterprise or group applications, where a DAM Manager posts the form to a common location and all users get the latest and greatest.
See the Table of Contents for help with using and configuring the panel.
Exchange link to panel: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.103752.html
Enterprise Admins can include this and other extensions when they create Managed Packages in the Admin Console. Read the Help Documentation here. Search for Custom Metadata Panel during step 7 to include it and other Extensions in your Managed Package.
For Enterprise customers who cannot create Managed Packages to deploy Marketplace extensions, we have made it available as a Release. See the Releases section of this repository to get the latest version.
See a video tour at https://youtu.be/48T_xxx_i6Y
Special thanks to the following, who graciously created example Views that you can use when creating a new Tab:
Changes for Version 2.0.2
This release addresses multiple user-reported issues and adds much-requested features. We are updating the public documentation and refreshing videos, but we have updated the in-app help text. Additionally, the What's New screen contains some helpful copy and short videos. While not comprehensive, here's a list of additions, improvements, and bug fixes.
Field updates
- Added URL and multi-URL form fields
- Added Multi-Number form field
- Added Hidden Fields
- Added Custom Tooltips
- Added Custom Placeholder Text
- Added additional Time and Date formatting controls for Date and MultiDate fields
- You can now Sync values between fields
- Added Language Alternative support for Structures
- Improved Language Alternative configuration
- Improved Language Alternative display to include asset-defined langs
- Fixed issue which prevented update to structure contents
Additional Features
- You can now Copy and Paste properties between Views when editing Views
- Added support for relative path names for Views in Settings.json
- Added click to select JSON file
- Added portability for Presets between Views
- Improved feedback when there are no Fields to display
- Moved Presets to the bottom of the Metadata View window so it's always visible
- Added clickable link to Section and SubSection headers
- Includes updated IPTC metadata starter Views (thanks, IPTC!!!)
Bug fixes
- Fixed field update issue when the image selection changed in Bridge
- Fixed issue which prevented Presets from working with Structures
- Added support for displaying Alt Langs with single values when the View expects an array
- Fixed a bug in Dropdowns that prevented users from selection options when using labels in the option array
- Fixed a longstanding bug in Tags which prevented the use of label-value objects
- Squashed other bugs
To do:
- Update in-app help documentation for new tools and features
- Update public documentation
- Create updated quick start and feature videos
Changes for Version 2.0.1
- Added PLUS License Data Format example View
Changes for version 2.0.0
- Added new field types:
- Changed Multiline text to automatically expand when the text is longer than 3 lines
- Added Complex Structure object support
- You can now create XMP Structures, which can contain other XMP properties as well as Structures
- The PLUS Metadata Example is a great reference for Structures
- See the documentation for more details.
Fixed
Changes for version 1.7.0
- Added new field types:
- Switches and Switch Groups
- Radio Buttons
- Checkboxes and Checkbox Groups
- Multiple Date fields
- Subdivision Divider
- Added Autocomplete for XMP Namespace and Prefix definitions
- Added Duplicate field button in View Editor
- See the documentation for more details.
Fixed
Changes for version 1.6.0
- Added support for Premiere Pro Clip metadata within Premiere Pro. Users can read and update Clip metadata and optionally sync those values to XMP properties. See the documentation for more details.
- Added a set of reference namespace definitions that you can access from the panel or from our documentation. These have been updated to include Premiere Pro specific metadata properties.
Fixed
Changes for version 1.5.0
Added
See the User Guide for more about these new features
- Added Tabbed Interface for Metadata Forms
- Support for independent tabs, each with its own view
- New Settings panel with separate controls for
- Tab Manager
- View Editor
- Visibility of What's New screen
- What's New screen
- Carousel with animations and text to highlight new features
- Metadata Examples for new Forms
Changes for version 1.4.0
Added
See the User Guide for more about these new features
- Changed name from Custom Metadata from Custom Metadata Panel
- Added support for Language Alternative properties
- Ability to set AltLang value type for Text Fields
- Added Configurator Option for Alternative Language
- Updated Default View to contain AltLang Examples
- Added a link to documentation in the Flyout menu
- Added support for self-entered values for Multiple Dropdown and Tags
- Squashed some UI bugs
Fixed
- Inconsistent behavior when writing metadata to media files (Bridge specific)
- This is caused by a bug in Bridge. We have implemented a workaround while the Bridge team resolves the bug.
- Several bugs
Changes for version 1.3.0
Added
See the User Guide for more about these new features
- Changed name to Custom Metadata Panel
- Added support for Photoshop and Illustrator
- Added multi-line text fields
- Allow special characters in Configurator
- Squashed some UI bugs
Fixed
Changes for version 1.2.0
Added
See the User Guide for more about these new features
- Support for Seq and Bag arrays in Tag, Multi-Text and Multi-Dropdown fields
- Ability to reorder Multi-Text items
- Ability to edit Multi-Text items
- Improved UI for adding Multi-Text items
- New Pending change dialog
- Improved UI for showing which fields will change when user saves changes
Fixed
- Several bugs
- Removed Configurator from the Window>Extensions menu
- Fixed Tag deletion issue in Multi-Dropdown
- Added validation when saving and exporting View templates
- Help text in Configurator window better reflects the items being edited
Changes for version 1.1.0
Added
See the User Guide for more about these new features
- Field Dependencies for all field types
- Filtering based on another field value in Dropdowns and Multi-Dropdowns
- Auto Group Selection in Multi-Dropdown
- Natural Language Date parsing for Date Field
- Multiple Values resolution workflow and menu for Bulk Selection Mode
Fixed
- Several bugs
- Updated the About screen