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1. Re: feed Bridge from Access or Excel speadsheet??
Mylenium Feb 16, 2011 12:24 PM (in response to jl2000)What you want should be possible with a script to transfer your Access data to XMP metadata. Both programs obviously support VBScript, so there is probably not even the need to export and parse text files, you would simply query the database directly on an image per image basis. Ther only requirement might be that your data fields may need to be defined in a global XMP template first, if you use more than the default fields. I'd ask around in the scripting forums if someone has experience with that...
Mylenium
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2. Re: feed Bridge from Access or Excel speadsheet??
Michael L Hale Feb 16, 2011 12:45 PM (in response to jl2000)If you are willing to use a csv file then there may already be a javascript that would fit your needs. http://ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=232 and http://ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3463 are two examples.
It is my understand that Bridge only supports javascript.
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3. Re: feed Bridge from Access or Excel speadsheet??
jl2000 Feb 17, 2011 5:00 AM (in response to Michael L Hale)Thanks for the inputs.
I found both comments moved me closer to understanding a solution. I'm going to leave this question unanswered for a few more days while I stumble through all this new information but I'm more confident now.
Michael - PS-Scripts.com is amazing! I never realized there was such a level of control capable. This opens new doors. I'll see you there!
Thanks again.
jl
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4. Re: feed Bridge from Access or Excel speadsheet??
jl2000 Feb 21, 2011 7:35 AM (in response to Michael L Hale)Michael - I know that in Photoshop I can open and run a script from the file menu but how do I run a script when I'm in Bridge?
JL
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5. Re: feed Bridge from Access or Excel speadsheet??
Paul Riggott Feb 21, 2011 8:23 AM (in response to jl2000)To run scripts for bridge, there are a couple of ways.
1. Run the script from ExtendScript Toolkit, this gets installed at the same time as Photoshop and can be found:-
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
2. Run the script from Bridge itself, the problem here is that the script must be written so that it has a menu element scripted within it else the script will just run every time Bridge is opened.
To install a script in Bridge:-
Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.




