Dec 02 2018 03:22 PM
In the past in September, we have used below columns to extract picture/image metadata w.r.t location in SharePoint Online:
It worked brilliantly. But unfortunately the functionality doesn't seem to work anymore. We have tried it on Site Assets, Pictures and Document library and also on 2 different tenants .
Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Regards,
Vishwa
Dec 18 2018 07:05 AM
Not to be "that guy" who does not have a solution for you but we are experiencing the same thing. They must have done an update to SharePoint online that removes this ability. I've tried in both our classic and modern sites and its not pulling anything from the pictures.
Dec 27 2018 05:49 PM
Dec 31 2018 06:30 AM
Jan 07 2019 02:38 AM
Hi,
The default picture libraries do not let you export the Meta information to excel.
However, you can use web part to do that.
Here are the detailed steps:
1. Create a web part page or edit a existed web part page.
2. Add a web part and choose the picture library stored the images.
3. Modify this web part, select which meta need to be exported by Edit the current view and set the Toolbar Type to Full toolbar, you will find the Export To Spreadsheet in the Action menu.
Hope the information can be helpful.
-Nikhil John
Jan 07 2019 06:00 AM
John Nikhil,
Its not that we are having trouble exporting metadata to Excel, its that the picture libraries no longer extract the EXIF data from the pictures so that we can get the longitude and latitude values from them.
Jan 18 2019 07:47 AM
It's not even bringing in 'Date Taken', so now I have a media library with 35,000 items in it and climbing, for which any subsequent items I will not be able to sort or filter by 'Date Taken' for me.
This is frankly unacceptable. I can't believe there hasn't been more of a storm over this.
What use is a photo library you can't even sort by date???
Jan 27 2019 06:05 AM
Totally agree with that.
A picture gallery has to support exif and iptc metadata such as "date taken", GPS Information, title etc. to enable the professional user to benefit of it. A picture Gallery without this functionality doesn't make much sense. The value is all about the content.
We appreciate Microsoft to take care of ist customers needs and hope this issue will be solved quickly.
Jan 28 2019 05:35 PM
We have dozens of facility project libraries with thousands of documentation photos that must have date picture taken to be of any use. We'd be grateful if this can be repaired quickly.
Jan 28 2019 05:42 PM
From my support ticket with MS, this feature isn't broken, it has been deprecated.
To reinstate the automatic EXIF parsing for pictures/videos feature, we would need to contact MS Support individually to bother them, or create a request on the UserVoice site and gain other user support.
Jan 29 2019 07:36 AM
I have created a uservoice suggestion to bring it back. Please VOTE!!! If we don't have at least 100 votes within 30 days the suggestion gets dropped.
Jan 29 2019 07:53 AM
Done!
Hopefully, they'll listen. Being able to bring the GPS coordinates was really useful, but a media library that won't sort by date taken is worthless if you ask me.
Feb 12 2019 04:26 AM
From my opinion this is a service that deserves additional extensions and not any kind of deprecation. We build several small MAM solutions for our customers, that from now on do not work with SPO anymore. Actually we are evaluating FLOW to re-classify images in SharePoint with EXIF data.
Thanks for the user voice!
Bjoern
Feb 23 2019 03:32 AM
There is a 3rd party tool named SLIM Companion Explorer. It mimics "Open in Explorer" in a browser and supports extraction of metadata from multiple image file formats such as jpg, png, gif, bmp, svg and tiff plus commonly used file formats such as PDF. Office formats (docx, pptx, ..), emails (msg, eml), ...
The tool allows mapping of properties in the original documents to SharePoint columns.
It supports metadata frameworks like EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ..
Note: I am affiliated with the vendor.
Paul | SLIM Applications
Apr 17 2019 06:06 AM
@Adam YoungAny luck resolving this Adam? I can't believe they removed this.
Apr 17 2019 07:05 AM
@Martin Muldoon Unfortunately as far as I can tell Microsoft has not released anything about restoring this ability. I would love to hear an explanation from Microsoft on why its been removed and what their alternative will be.
Apr 17 2019 08:39 AM
@Adam Young It appears they're developing for the minimum viable product as MS devs modernize SharePoint's front-end. Is the ability to vote for this functionality removed/disabled?
Jun 17 2019 01:34 AM
Hello @Fred Bentler,
is there a solution for the problem by now? I am trying to import the imagetags
Thanks very much!
Jun 25 2019 05:11 PM
@AlexCap No SP solution that I see or have heard about yet. I assume it's a casualty of modernizing SharePoint's front-end and was left out of the minimum viable product and whatever subsequent updates were rolled out. Hopefully it's in the to-do list yet though
@AlexCap wrote:Hello @Fred Bentler,
is there a solution for the problem by now? I am trying to import the imagetags
Thanks very much!
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Oct 20 2019 01:29 AM