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- Feb 4, 2008
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I have a requirement to be able to copy a folder tree to a collection tree. I know you can drag a folder to create a collection, but it doesn't recognise the subfolders in the folder.
I'm looking to move my website to one based on Photodeck - and they have a nice publish plugin - but you have to create the hierarchy of folders in the publish collection yourself. It's not too much work but it would be beter if it were automated.
My current workflow uses folders rather than collections. I ingest into them, and then sort into subfolders. I know I could manage this with keywords and Smart collections - but it's making things more complicated than necessary, and some of my events the images are already sorted into subfolders, so I just import the folder tree as is.
Rob Cole used to have a folders to collection plugin - with the source code - but searching for an archive copy brings up nothing - does anyone have this? I'd be happy to modify something that works..
Otherwise I have an example from the Adobe SDK forum Writing a plugin to create Smart Collections |Adobe Community - which creates collections and also creates smart collections. I don't want to use smart collections, but I want to see if I can modify this to create a publish collection. It's just a bit old, so may not be the most efficient example.
It also strikes me that this doesn't have to be a full blown plugin, but can be a script.
I'm looking to move my website to one based on Photodeck - and they have a nice publish plugin - but you have to create the hierarchy of folders in the publish collection yourself. It's not too much work but it would be beter if it were automated.
My current workflow uses folders rather than collections. I ingest into them, and then sort into subfolders. I know I could manage this with keywords and Smart collections - but it's making things more complicated than necessary, and some of my events the images are already sorted into subfolders, so I just import the folder tree as is.
Rob Cole used to have a folders to collection plugin - with the source code - but searching for an archive copy brings up nothing - does anyone have this? I'd be happy to modify something that works..
Otherwise I have an example from the Adobe SDK forum Writing a plugin to create Smart Collections |Adobe Community - which creates collections and also creates smart collections. I don't want to use smart collections, but I want to see if I can modify this to create a publish collection. It's just a bit old, so may not be the most efficient example.
It also strikes me that this doesn't have to be a full blown plugin, but can be a script.