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ExifTool => Bug Reports / Feature Requests => Topic started by: StarGeek on May 17, 2018, 01:48:17 PM

Title: Possible Bug with user defined WriteAlso tag?
Post by: StarGeek on May 17, 2018, 01:48:17 PM
I'm trying to create a writable user-defined tag based upon the example in this post (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,5640.msg27518.html#msg27518) but run into a problem.  The config file in that post returns Warning: Tag 'IPTC_Credit' is not defined Nothing to do. in the current version (as well as ver 10.52), but works properly in ver 10.13.

Any ideas on how to make it work?

Title: Re: Possible Bug with user defined WriteAlso tag?
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 17, 2018, 09:48:21 PM
Thanks for this report.  There were some changes in this area to fix other problems.  I'll look into this first thing tomorrow.

- Phil
Title: Re: Possible Bug with user defined WriteAlso tag?
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 18, 2018, 07:34:56 AM
Ah, yes.  Found the bug.  It was due to this change:

May 3, 2016 - Version 10.16
  - Fixed problem where user-defined Composite tags may not always override
    pre-defined Composite tags with the same name, and added feature to allow
    the user to specify whether they should override existing tags or not

This will be fixed in 10.98.

Nice catch!!

- Phil