"Microsoft_Subject" Tag Transfer

[Mardon]

If I have content in the "Microsft_Subject" tag it does not seem to get transferred to the "Description" tag in Daminion when I add the file unless the file also has content in the "Microsoft_Title" tag.

 

Is this the way it is supposed to work? Seems a bit odd to me. Thanks.

 

[Murat]

Could you please send us a sample image?

[Mardon]

Could you please send us a sample image?

I've attached a composite screen image that shows the issue for two different files. It behaves this way for all the jpeg files that I have tested. It is not file specific so I have not included the files. You may have them if you need them. Just let me know. Mardon

[Murat]

Mardon, thanks for the image. Check the image metadata by ExifTool after changing it's properties by Windows Explorer (via "Actions > Show All Metadata").

 

You can see that Explorer in Windows Vista and 7* writes the Title tag into:

• XMP Title
  
• XMP Description
  
• EXIF Image Description
  
• EXIF XP Title
  

 

* The Explorer in Windows XP acts a bit differently.

 

And Daminion uses XMP Description field as a source for its Description tag. And XMP Title as a source for its Title tag. This is why you see the same Title in both Title and Description tags in Daminion.

 

Daminion doesn't import EXIF XP Subject.

[Mardon]

Murat, Thank you for your help with this. I understand now how Daminion processes the Microsoft tags.. I wonder why Microsoft chose to write the same data to 4 different tags.

[Murat]

No problem.