Add time captured to meta data

fulo

I wonder if there is a possibility to sho the date/time, when a photo was taken, next to the meta information below an image? Within the SM settings I can find nothing but the title and the description. With Google, I found a link to an older discussion,l but after following the link the topic didn't exist anymore. :(

Thanks a lot for your help!
Philip

pilotdave

You can't do it within smugmug, but if you happen to use Lightroom, there's a plugin called LR/Transporter that would allow you to do it. It basically lets you put any metadata into another field. So you could, for example, place date taken at the end of your captions. I use it to add filenames below the captions.

fulo

Thanks for the advice. This seems to work.

But when I add the capture time to the caption, the description in this field gets completely overwritten by the date.
Is this an issue of the free version, without having donated for it? You are probably using the "full version"?

Thanks a lot

pilotdave

What you need to do is make a template that includes the current caption and then adds on to it. You could use this:

caption => {caption} {dateTimeOriginal}

That takes whatever is in the caption field and adds the date and time captured to the end of it. You can also include html if you'd like to do some formatting. I use something like this to show filenames under captions:

caption => {caption} <br><span class="filename" style="font-size:14px">{fileNameNoExtension}</span>

With a little CSS, it comes out looking like this:

Dave

Lille Ulven

Thanks @pilotdave - not that I currently need it, but this sounds like a great little plugin

Lille Ulven