No worries mate. The logic for templess outputs was separately ready before. I integrated it and tweaked a bit.
Since you're ok with disabling the confirmation and use the normal mode, let's consider that finished. But a final tip, not necessarily only for this script: You can open the Script log (output window, other log... all same thing in my jargon) via the Find or Synchronize panel. These log lines are very common in user scripts.
Cheers
Thanks for your response to my question about having dopus columns show exiftool tag data. But I don't have a lot of experience with programming, and I'm trying to understand your script. I don't need to cache or log the results from exiftool, just to populate the columns with "datetimeoriginal", "creationdate" and "createdate" . Using "exiftool -s -s -s -datetimeoriginal -creationdate -createdate ." works for .jpg and .mov files for me. Any chance I can impose on you to pare your script down to the essentials, so I can learn what I minimally need? Thanks in advance!
You can use exiftool of course, @lxp just released a script for Exiftool, check that definitely out.
Before I continue, "logging" is not for functionality. What you might have read above is only info for developers & users to troubleshoot and such, nothing more. Caching is something completely different.
Maybe we have a misunderstanding here. Caching helps. Just FYI, lxf's script also caches exiftool results. If "real-time, every time" is what you want, just like DOpus does for common video or audio columns, neither mine nor lxp's script will help.
But that's not so bad, because my script (maybe lxp's as well) helps you identify files with outdated cache data instantly, if the file size and/or modification timestamp changes. That is, unless the script tells you (there's a column only for that purpose: Dirty/Outdated), you don't have to go through the whole cycle of running MediaInfo and fetch the info again. It's much faster than running it anew. Once fetched, this info is attached to the files, in so-called ADS, completely transparent to end-user. You can then move the files around, rename them and DOpus reads the info without involving MediaInfo at all.
I published v0.94 which can show exactly what you want.
A video tutorial on how to use it efficiently is on the way, will take 1 week or so.
Thanks much! I had in mind that each file would call exiftool, fill in the appropriate columns, and proceed to next file. But indeed calling exiftool each time is quite slow, so the scripts that create a temp or cache file seem better. So I'm trying Ixp's script now. I'm just beginning to understand his and your scripts, maybe I'll get the hang of it.
@cyilmaz thank you for the AddIn. I have tried v0.94 but I can't get it to work. The column (ME Audio Language) stays empty and I see errors in the log:
20.07.2021 20:52 MExt: Fehler in Zeile 2852, Position 5
20.07.2021 20:52 MExt: Ungültiger Prozeduraufruf oder ungültiges Argument (0x800a0005)
Translated to english:
Error in line 2852, position 5
Invalid procedure call or argument (0x800a0005)
The mkv files have the MExt_MediaInfo:$DATA stream.
Hi, thanks a lot for the report. I will fix it asap.
If you in the meantime save the following as CuMediaExtenders.json under /dopusdata/Script AddIns that should fix the problem. In case you wonder, it's explained in "REF_CONFIG_FILE".
{
"colRepl": { },
"colExtra": { },
"colExtraVideo": { },
"colExtraAudio": { }
}
EDIT: If you have already a JSON file of your own, then only add the missing "colExtra*" fields.
Will post a new OSP soon.
EDIT #2: Here's version 0.94.1.
Thank you, now it works!
Thanks for creating CuMediaExtenders, I use many types of video files and it is very useful to have this.
The problem is that I'm new to dopus and although I've tried to install your script I can't see anything in the columns.
I install the script and activate the new columns, but I don't know how to do the update button.
Can someone help me to install it?
Is there a video to follow the steps?
If you have downloaded latest version (0.94), there's a .DCF in the distro file. Right-click on any of your toolbars -> Customize -> Drag and drop the .DCF to your toolbar, save and close customization. Now you should have a Menu button, see the green Update button with +. Select your media files and click it. It should automatically refresh the columns (try the 1 button as well) and you should see the info.
For more info read the previous posts and/or see Github. A demo video is on my todo list, but my day-job (also D2 Resurrected lol) won't let me right now.
Thank you for your answer
I followed your steps and when I click on update metadata, it opens another dopus window and I get an error.
Dopus is great, but I have to invest more time to learn..
Have you installed the MediaInfo CLI? There's a link in the root post in the "Install" part (near the middle, not at the end with the script download, so maybe you missed it).
I had configured the path, but I had a wrong capital letter (I do not know if it is important in windows)
It's not just you 
I've been programming for over 3 decades and using DOpus since 2007 yet still learn a lot every day. Maybe I should prioritize that installation/demo video higher.
I just checked ExifTool script and mine, both errors are clearly from WScript.Shell.Run() method. It seems there's something missing on your Windows.
You should see something like "Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812" if you run these in a command prompt window:
cscript /?
wscript /?
If they work, save this as "hello.cmd"
@echo Hello world from .cmd
@pause
and this as "test-hello.vbs" and double-click it:
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "hello.cmd", 1, true
EDIT: It just occurred to me, after seeing your post in the other thread, your .exe paths are wrong:
MediaInfo path should be C:\360a\MediaInfoCLI\MediaInfo.exe
and ExifTool path should be C:\Exiftool\Exiftool.exe without the /bin\exiftool in front.
I changed the paths and it works correctly, thank you very much for your time!
Just one last question, I've seen your other script on github called MovieTagger, but some links don't work.
Is it in development or have you cancelled it?
It is in development (very slow at the moment) and not for public use, but I opened up the repo for developers, since it demonstrates transpiling and other techniques. It is not what you might think, since it focuses on movies, series, downloaded Youtube videos and alike, which are then linked to IMDB, TMDB, etc. so that you can see the poster, read the synopsis, list actors, ratings, etc. directly from DOpus.
This script is an amazing life saver. It turns DOpus into a DAM, truly a dream come true. That being said...
How do I change the column names? 
Column labels are customizable with a JSON file, a sample file is in distro (extract OSP if not visible).
If you rename the .osp file to .zip you can look inside it.
In there there's a .JSON file with some examples of how to rename the columns.
Extract and edit that file, then copy it back into into the archive.
Finally, rename the archive back to .osp, and restart Opus (File > Exit Directory Opus).
Hi, i'm a big user of this amazing script unfortunatly for an unknown reason it stopped working sudently today. when reading the log it says this. trying to read this topic again and see what could be wrong, but no idea yet except the missing json file
13/08/2023 11:49 CuMediaExtenders.js: Checking external config file under: C:\Users\d\AppData\Roaming\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Script AddIns\CuMediaExtenders.json
13/08/2023 11:49 CuMediaExtenders.js: ...not found, skipping
13/08/2023 11:49 MExt: Cache cleared
13/08/2023 11:49 MExt: InitCacheIfNecessary() -- Current count: 0
13/08/2023 14:47 MExt: 03.srt, skipping file - no video or audio stream found
13/08/2023 14:48 MExt: Cache cleared
addendum : could fix some part of it, except one thing : when launching the update metadata, the selection goes back to the first line of the folder or list of files, istead of staying where it was. if the dev is still there , and can help on this , thanks !!
