Categories Import / Export

[m.Th.]

It is crucial for an Organizer - especially for a young organizer like ours - to have a good gateway from / to other DAMs because otherwise nobody will dare to switch from other established programs in the market (eg. Lightroom) or try to use our program because they will fear that they will be locked in.

However, an import / export engine for the Categories / Keywords is easy to implement because the standard is quite simple: a tab-indented text file with the categories with some modifiers (some braces for synonyms). Something like this:

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Places
[tab]Europe
[tab][tab]France
[tab][tab][tab]Remis
[tab][tab]Greece
[tab]Asia
[tab][tab]Japan
[tab][tab][tab]Tokio
...

A full explanation and description of the Lightroom standard (which is adopted also by other programs) is to be found at

http://lightroom-news.com/2009/05/04/ke ... lightroom/
http://www.tipsquirrel.com/a-further-lo ... lightroom/
http://www.pointsinfocus.com/learning/d ... lightroom/ (perhaps clearer text, but you need to scroll it down to find the actual paragraph related to our theme)

If we implement this, besides of opening great opportunities for new users to adopt and/or switch to our program, it will be quite beneficial for the existing users of the program because they can download and import the plethora of Lightroom keyword list files which exists on internet.

As always, any assistance in implementation, GUI design etc. will be provided at will.