Converting iView Catalogs to Keywords

[Anthony Millan]

Hello Peter et al,

I was wondering...
In iView how do you convert catalog sets to keywords? is this even possible? You mentioned it is possible already, or may be possible on one of the forums, but did not explain how to accomplish this.

Regards,
Anthony Millan

[peterkrogh]

Anthony,
How many catalog sets do you have?
If it's few enough, you can do it manually. (Select the set, assign them a keyword)

If it's a lot, then there is a script available, but I can't put my hands on it right now.  Check the iView scripting forum.
Peter

[Anthony Millan]

Thanks Peter,

I didn't even think to check the scripting forum. DUH! Found the script there.
I only have aproximately 75 sets, but many have been built with subsets in a hierarchy. I was thinking that this script could come in handy to convert this hierarchy into keywords much more efficiently than doing it by hand. I'm working on cleaning up my tangled mess of sets so to speak as it could have been better organized prior to reading your DAM book.


Regards,
Anthony Millan

[peterkrogh]

Anthony,
I would suggest that there is generally not a reason to duplicate the Catalog Set information to keywords until you need to migrate the data for some reason.

Peter