The command application “iaarch.exe” is the primary command-line client interface to ImgArchive. This interface is used to manage the control of images going in and out of the archive software. It has a rich set of subcommands that “add/import” images to the archive and “export” images out of the archive, In addition manages the controlled modification of images using the “check-in/check-out” command set.
Note:
The administration of the archive is carried out by the iaadmin command-line
interface.
Each sub-command will have a set of arguments used to control the sub-command in its behaviour. these are detailed in each of the sub-command sections. In addition, A number of sub-commands contain common arguments that have the same meaning across the application. see common arguments.
These are common ImgArchive commands used in various situations-
IMPORT – import new images to the archive.
CHECKOUT – Checkout images from archive to workspace.
CHECKIN – Checkin images from workspace into the archive.
UNCHECKOUT – Un-checkout images from workspace into the archive.
GET – Get images from archive to workspace.
DELETE – Delete images in the archive.
UNDELETE – Undelete images in the archive.
EXPORT – Export images from archive into a destination folder.
PROP – Manage image properties
METADATA – Show Metadata properties
TEMPLATE – Manage metadata template
STATUS – Show check in/out status
HISTORY – Shows the check-in status history for the archive
JOURNAL - Displays the contents of a journal
SHOW – Show details
LOG – Show logs
SCAN - Scan the file system for images that can be imported into the archive
SEARCH - Indexing and searching the photo metadata
ABOUT – prints this version information
HELP - On ImgArchive client.
Return codes:
0 Success
1 Warnings
2 Errors
3 Fatal