Getting the name of the image type.

jrMugz

Greetings,

I am using the following code to get the Asset Type for an asset; but it only returns a number. Is there anything I can add to the code below to get the actual metadata value displayed on the Properties page, from this number?

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Const c_METADATA_IMAGETYPE = "{4510D310-E6BB-11D2-BF95-00A024DB7160}"

Dim objMetaData

objMetaData = myAsset.MetaDataItem(c_METADATA_IMAGETYPE)

Dim GetImageType = objMetaData.GetValue
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Thank you,
Jim

Migrateduser

Jim-

What you need to do is get the definition object for the metadata.

The use the GetChoices() method to get the values. For string lists, this is just a list of strings. But it sounds like you are using a value list. This is a mapping of an integer value to a string display value. This is more tricky.

In this case, the values are stored in pairs (alternating slots) in the returned "choices" array. I think the first (even) value is the integer value and the second (odd) value is the string.

For example, you might get this back from .GetChoices()

value [0]: 1
value [1]: string X
value [2]: 2
value [3]: string Y
value [4]: 3
value [5]: string Z

I can't remember if the value or display comes first - or if the array is 0 or 1 based, but you get the idea.

Matt