markolympic

Thanks for your help!

I tried adding the following CSS to my theme option custom code, but still no luck:
.flex-direction-nav { display: block !important; }
.flex-control-nav { display: block !important; }

Am I missing something critical here?

Hi David. Actually I went ahead this morning and “fixed” the two files manually. They still show the same minimal metadata as before. Here’s what is odd: the project involves uploading about 1,000 PDFs, each of which had the metadata. The files were grouped into 27 folders. The two folders I was having trouble with yesterday had nearly half of the files in each folder experiencing the same problem with MLA not reading the metadata. That’s when I raised the issue with you. Then yesterday, I decided to just continue with the remaining 10 or so folders, even if I had to manually add the PDF titles and authors. In those folders, the metadata in nearly every file was read perfectly by MLA! Perhaps it was just coincidental that the 2 folders I was having problems with were the only two folders among the 27 with issues. Who knows. I’ll be interested to hear if you solve the issue as I would like to try out this same procedure with another website.

Hi David. For some unknown reason, MLA seems to be reading the PDF metadata with no problem now! If you made any changes, I guess they worked! Thanks for all your help on this. MLA saved me so much time.

Thanks David. Here are links to two PDFs which are not being processed correctly:

https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv18n3g.pdf
https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv18n2j.pdf

For comparison, here are links to two PDFs which were correctly processed:

https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv18n1k.pdf
https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv18n1i.pdf

David, everything was going fine for awhile. Now, not all the metadata is being read by MLA. I know the Adobe Acrobat Properties metadata is being stored because I can view it. But for some reason many property fields in quite a few files are being ignored by MLA. For example, below is metadata for two sequentially numbered PDF files. You can see that a lot of metadata fields are not being read for the first file. The second file shows all the fields being read by MLA including the crucial “pdf:Author” and “pdf:Title” fields. Is there anyway to force MLA to read all the metadata fields? Thanks!

FIRST FILE

post_id => 5356
pdf:PDF_Version => PDF-1.6
pdf:PDF_VersionNumber => 1.6
pdf:First => 121
pdf:N => 17
pdf:Type => XObject
pdf:BitsPerComponent => 8
pdf:ColorSpace => DeviceGray
pdf:Height => 1656
pdf:Interpolate => true
pdf:Mask => 23 0 R
pdf:Subtype => Image
pdf:Width => 2339
pdf:ImageMask => true

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SECOND File

post_id => 5357
pdf:PDF_Version => PDF-1.6
pdf:PDF_VersionNumber => 1.6
pdf:Author => Philip Barker
pdf:CreationDate => 2014-10-28 22:08:37
pdf:Creator => Canon iR-ADV C5250
pdf:Keywords => 2010 July Vol. 18 No.2 p. 32-37
pdf:ModDate => 2017-01-18 15:23:56
pdf:Producer => ABBYY FineReader 11
pdf:Subject => Journal of Olympic History
pdf:Title => The Hidden Legacies of Moscow ’80: Changes in Ceremonial and Attitudes
pdf:BitsPerComponent => 8
pdf:ColorSpace => DeviceGray
pdf:Height => 2341
pdf:Interpolate => true
pdf:Mask => 43 0 R
pdf:Subtype => Image
pdf:Type => XObject
pdf:Width => 1630`

Finally got it all working! Very much appreciate your help.

One further question: is it possible to add another column to the Media Library Assistant page to display my “categories” so that I can do a Bulk edit on them at the same time I’m double checking my entries? “Categories” is not an option in the “Screen Options” pull down at the top of the page.

Thanks!

I think there’s a conflict as there was already an “author” field which records the name of the person who posted a page, post, or some other WP element. So I deleted the second author field completely to start fresh.

What I would like to do is create 2 new metadata fields for this grouping of about 1500 PDFs. Each PDF is a magazine article. The metadata that I’m trying to capture from the PDFs is each article’s “Title” (which we’ve already been successful in doing), and each article’s “Author”. Perhaps rather than naming this field “Author” it might be better to name it “Article Author” to differentiate it from the existing WP author field.

Can MLA set up this new field for me, or do I still need to create the new field using the Custom Fields plugin?

Again thanks for sticking with me on this. I think we’re nearly there!

Saw my error with respect to the Title … I forgot to include “template:” before ([+pdf:Title+]). This one works fine. Do I also need to include “template:” before the Author code?

Still having problems with the Author field. It does seem to be recording the Author field in the Media/Assistant table. But the Author field on the media page is not being completed. Is it possible that I didn’t set up this field properly? Perhaps I should delete that field and set it up again using MLA, if that’s possible?

Thanks again for your patience!

Hi David. Your directions were perfect and easy to follow. Exactly what I was looking for. Only one problem: when I click the “Map IPTC/EXIF metadata” link on a PDF in my Library, the Title field still shows the permafile name, and the Author field remains unpopulated. I double checked the “Attachment File Metadata” field at the bottom of the record to make sure there were entries for both Title and Author … there were. Can’t figure out where I went wrong.

Hi Jaime. I think they are in a line. Check out a page to see:
https://bdpnnetwork.org/event/sports-basement-preparedness-presentation/

This event should really have only been a “community activity”. But without the “BDPNN meeting” category, it would not appear in the events calendar.

Thanks for helping.
Mark.

Hi @jaimemarchwinski,

I checked. The Parent Event Category is set to “none”. Any other thoughts as to why this is not working?

Thanks, Mark.

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Hi Barry,

OK … so go to the Calendar on the website: https://bdpnnetwork.org/events/category/bdpnn-meeting/2017-09/?tribe_events_cat=bdpnn-meeting&tribe-bar-date=2017-09

This is the September calendar, but it will illustrate my point. There are two events listed. Click on either one and you will notice that under “Event Categories”, both “BDPNN Meetings” and “Community Activities” are listed. In reality, neither is really a “BDPNN Meeting”. However, if “BDPNN Meeting” is NOT selected from the series of check boxes under “Event Categories” in the dashboard, that event will not appear in the calendar. Doesn’t matter which other Event Categories are selected, the BDPNN Meeting seems to be a requirement for listing. Can you suggest a solution other than what we’re doing now which is always selecting BDPNN Meeting in addition to any other categories?

Thanks … Mark.

Hi Nitesh,

Good. Can you give me a quote for custom work described in #3 (I will need to include this in my proposal to the client).

Thanks
Mark.

Hi Nitesh,

Thank you for your quick response. And yes, of course I will be purchasing the PRO version from you. To answer your questions:

#3. The “buyer’s premium” is the percent (in this case 15%) charged the buyer IN ADDITION TO the purchase price. For example, if the buyer wins lots totaling $100, he will pay $100 + 15% = $115. Usually the “buyer’s premium” is kept by the auctioneer.

#4. Unsold lots are those lots that did not sell in the auction. After the auction closes, they automatically become “buy it now” lots and are offered for the starting price + 15% Buyer’s Premium.

Thanks again,
Mark.