Bug 382363

Summary: Author templates are not stored in database [tied to user and sometime even computer]
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Thomas Debesse <dev>
Component: Database-MultiusersAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
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Bug Depends on: 382358    
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Description Thomas Debesse 2017-07-15 07:01:30 UTC 
Currently, authors templates are stored as `digikam\template.xml` file in user profile which is tied to user per se (and on Windows, on a throwable place which is also tied to computer, see #382358).

It means thant on a multi user scenario, one user can add new people labels and everyone can use and apply them, but if one user adds one author template, no other user can set it on a photo.

The author template contains metadata to be set on pictures, and is kind of metadata itself. The same way you can set a people name on a face by browsing the tag list, you can set an author from the author drop-down list, but this author list is not stored in database so unlike people tag list, author list is not shared among users.
Comment 1 Thomas Debesse 2017-07-15 07:08:05 UTC 
linking bug 382358
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2025-04-11 18:13:58 UTC 
Hi,

The 8.7.0 pre-release Windows installer from today have been rebuilt from
scratch with Qt 6.8.3, KDE 6.12, OpenCV 4.11 + CUDA support, Exiv2 0.28.5, ExifTool 13.27, ffmpeg 7, all image codecs updated to last version (jxl, avif, heif, aom, etc.).

Please try with this version to see if your problem still reproducible...

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Thanks in advance
Best regards

Gilles Caulier