Import of hierarchical keywords with ":" as separator fails

[DrAlzheimer]

Hi,

I tried the options "import IPTC keywords" and "read hierarchical keywords" with ":" as separator for IPTC keywords. The IPTC categories in my image files are defined as category:subcategory, but the import does not work as expected. All hierarchical keywords are imported in the main category as "somecategory:somesubcategory". However, If I replace the keywords separator in the IPTC data with "|", the import into (sub)categories works just fine.

I didn't try the "/" and "\" separator, though. In any case, I use GeoSetter for geotagging my photos. GeoSetter assigns IPTC keywords geo:$lat and geo:$lon to geotagged images, so it would be very convenient to be able to use ":" as hierarchy separator.

Thanks in advance!

[xnview]

could you send me a file example?

[DrAlzheimer]

Sure, you can test it with the following image file:

[xnview]

ok, i see that keywords contains "geo:lon=" & "geo:lat="
but what must be the good categories?

[DrAlzheimer]

Ok,

when opening this file, the "geo" keywords are used as categories as shown in the screen shot below:

without hierarchical categories

But what I would expect after enabling the option Settings->Metadata->read hierarchical keywords->[x]: is a hierarchical category structure like this:

with hierarchical categories

If edit the IPTC meta data and add some "geo" keywords that contain | as separator, the hierarchical categories are created as shown in the 2nd screen shot above. But I think this should also work with :, if I interpret the "read hierarchical keywords" option correctly.

change meta-data

[xnview]

See Issue 577 for current status and details.

[DrAlzheimer]

Thank you!

[helmut]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 0.75 or later. Could you please try and confirm the bug fix, DrAlzheimer?