trych
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Hi there,
I am new here and have been trying to write some little helper plugins for my specific workflows in managing a large archive of scanned family photos.
For this, I have created a plugin that holds a lot of custom metadata fields.
I now wanted to start writing another plugin that automatically writes to some of these fields after reading some external data. However, I did not find a way to write to another plugin's metadata. I seem to be able to read this data, via the
Am I missing something here? Or is there any workaround / any other way to write to a plugin's metadata? Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
trych
I am new here and have been trying to write some little helper plugins for my specific workflows in managing a large archive of scanned family photos.
For this, I have created a plugin that holds a lot of custom metadata fields.
I now wanted to start writing another plugin that automatically writes to some of these fields after reading some external data. However, I did not find a way to write to another plugin's metadata. I seem to be able to read this data, via the
photo:getPropertyForPlugin()
method, but the photo:setPropertyForPlugin()
method does not seem to let me reference another (as the the parent) plugin and thus write to its metadata.Am I missing something here? Or is there any workaround / any other way to write to a plugin's metadata? Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
trych
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