Directly adding compatibility to product metadata (kind of solved?)

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• frank0314 Posts: 14,722

  July 2015

  Not all products have smart content. You will have to access them through the content library.
• mtl1 Posts: 1,508

  July 2015

  frank0314 said:

  Not all products have smart content. You will have to access them through the content library.

  I mean, yes I realize that, and there are ways to add metadata such that it appears in Smart Content.

  What I'm asking is if there's a way to edit a product with existing metadata (that is, Smart Contented) such that it appears as compatible with other products.
• mtl1 Posts: 1,508

  July 2015

  I poked around and found a method that seems to work. This isn't the fastest way to do it since I would prefer some kind of direct database editing, but it seems to do the trick.

  1. Find an existing Smart Contented product for Genesis. I used Action Kicker Boots.

  2. Navigate to Content Library and find the product in question. Hit the menu button and go into Content DB Editor.

  3. Ctrl-click both items and navigate to the compatibility tab.

  4. Ctrl-click both items at the bottom, then right click and add compatibility.

  5. Select Genesis 2 Female and accept, then click on the down arrows on each one to confirm.

  This is adapted off of the Adding Metadata tutorial (http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/packaging/tutorials/adding_metadata/start). The trick was to figure out which parts of the tutorial to skip because the product had metadata already.

  Of course, there's tweaking involved with Auto-Fit, but at least now I can see the products directly now.

  

  

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