Digital Image Suite and CS Server
Ok, there has been a few threads on Community Servers website about having the bulk upload tag the images based on the tags the image has already (did that even make since?). I took some code off codeplex that showed how to read the tags from an image. I quickly made up a form that uploaded an image, then displayed the tags.
To my surprise when I tried an image I had tagged in Digital Image Suite (DIS) it didn't show any tags! After some research I found out why. DIS doesn't store tags the same way Vista and most other apps do. It's not in the XMP data where it should be. Now vista does see DIS tags and Photo Info does as well. If you edit a tag in either vista or Photo Info, it will copy the tags to XMP, and then it does show up in my little test app.
The question is where to go from here, I would like to turn the test app into a CS Module that will auto tag images as they are uploaded, but it wouldn't do DIS images correctly. Since I use DIS I'm at a standstill.
I hope to find some good info on how to pull the keywords from DIS. Then I might can have it support both DIS and XMP tags. Till then I will just need to learn how hard it is to make a module and how to grab images that are being posted up, and how the tags are stored in CS. Lots to learn for someone that doesn't think of themselves as a programmer.