Hack to add date taken (capture date) below/after caption?

mattdmmattdm Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
edited November 25, 2015 in SmugMug Customization
I know (see http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/2638468-easier-view-of-date-taken-information) that there's no feature to show the date a photo was taken. This seems like a really odd thing to leave out, but I guess it's not high priority for many users. But, for those of us who do need it, is there any sort of clever site customization hack which could add it?

If it helps, it happens that all of my filenames are of the form YYYYMMDD-something.jpg

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  • tomnovytomnovy Registered Users Posts: 1,102 SmugMug Employee
    edited November 25, 2015
    Hi mattdm,

    As far as I know this is not possible at the moment - even using advanced customization.
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  • mattdmmattdm Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
    edited November 25, 2015
    I think what I'm going to do is put all of my actual captions into "Title", and then write the photo date into "Caption". Of to read the API docs!
  • pilotdavepilotdave Registered Users Posts: 785 Major grins
    edited November 25, 2015
    mattdm wrote: »
    I think what I'm going to do is put all of my actual captions into "Title", and then write the photo date into "Caption". Of to read the API docs!

    Don't know if it's an option, but I do it in Lightroom with a plugin called LR/Transporter. It lets you append metadata and other text to captions/titles/etc. So in my case I have it append the filename (which includes date taken) with some html each caption. It ends up looking like this:

    i-7XNnxkp-L.png

    I wish it was as easy as it was in old smug, but this is working for me for the time being.

    Dave
  • mattdmmattdm Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins

    Huh. So, I seem to have solved this by programatically writing a date string (like "July 9, 2009") into the caption for each photo. The funny thing is, I've been behind on organizing photos and am finally uploading some more, and I can't remember how I did it.

    It's not in the photos' XMP metadata, and there's no way I did it by hand, so I must have scripted it somehow. But I have ZERO recollection of how. :)

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