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== Process Photos with digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager and a Bash Script == Transcribed from Dmitri Popov's blog, 11 July 2011‎

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One of '''digiKam’s''' lesser known features is the ability to link scripts to notifications. At first sight, this may seem like a rather obscure functionality, but it can be put to some clever uses. Say, you want to keep a portfolio of selected photos on a mobile device. Resizing multiple photos to a specified size to make it easier to view them on the mobile device and transferring the processed photos from '''digiKam''' to the mobile device manually is not very practical. And this is where the ability to trigger scripts via notifications can come in handy. You can attach a simple [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell) Bash] script to the Batch queue completed notification, so it’s triggered automatically when the ''Batch Queue Manager'' tool is done processing photos.‎

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The Bash script is very simple, indeed. It uses the '''rsync''' tool to copy the processed photos from the source directory (in this case, it’s /home/user/Photos/Processed) to the /DCIM/Camera directory on the mounted SD card:‎

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{{Input|1= #!/bin/bash rsync -avz --delete /home/user/Photos/Processed /media/0CFA-5602/DCIM/Camera }}‎

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Paste the code above into an empty text file and save it as a postprocess.sh file (don’t forget to replace the example paths with the actual paths to the source and destination directories). Make then the script executable using the <code>chmod o+x postprocess.sh</code> command.‎

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[[Image:Digikam_notificationscript.png|center|500px]]‎

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In '''digiKam''', choose <menuchoice>Settings -> Configure Notifications</menuchoice> and select the <menuchoice>Batch queue completed</menuchoice> item. Tick the <menuchoice>Run command</menuchoice> check box, and enter the path to the '''postprocess.sh''' script in the appropriate field. As you might have guessed, this links the script to the notification, so the script is triggered as soon as the batch operation is finished.‎

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Next, create a tag (e.g.,''transfer'') in '''digiKam''' and assign it to the photos you want to transfer to the mobile device. Alternatively, you can use a specific color label for that. Use then the <menuchoice>Filter</menuchoice> right sidebar to display the tagged or labelled photos, select them, and press <keycap>Ctrl + B</keycap> (or choose <menuchoice>Tools -> Batch Queue Manager</menuchoice>) to add them to a new batch queue. In the <menuchoice>Queue Settings</menuchoice> section, click on the <menuchoice>Target</menuchoice> tab and select the <menuchoice>Photos -> Processed</menuchoice> sub-album. Under the <menuchoice>Base Tools</menuchoice> tab, double-click on the <menuchoice>Transform -> Resize</menuchoice> tool to add it to the <menuchoice>Assigned Tools</menuchoice> section. In the <menuchoice>Tool Settings</menuchoice> pane, specify the desired length. You can choose between several presets, or enable the <menuchoice>Use Custom Length</menuchoice> option and specify the desired length.‎

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Hit then the <menuchoice>Run</menuchoice> button, and once the batch operation is completed, the assigned Bash script copies the resized photos to the mounted SD card.‎

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You can tweak the script to perform other post-processing actions, too. For example, if you use the [http://home.gna.org/llgal/ llgal] command-line tool to generate static HTML photo galleries, you can tweak the script to add the processed photos to an HTML album. The script may look something like this:‎

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{{Input|1= cd /home/user/Photos/Processed llgal --exif --li -L --sx 800 --sy 600}}‎

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In other words, you can do all kinds of clever tricks by linking scripts to notifications.‎

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[[Category:Graphics]] [[Category:Photography]] [[Category:Tutorials]]‎

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