Custom Lightwright to Spotlight importing Tip

[Rick Martin]

I never am able to use the stock import / export / merge routines that come with Spotlight due to other customizations, and so I'm never able to use the "AUTOLINK" button when importing from Lightwright into Spotlight. But... I just figured out a way to do it!

If you edit the script "Lighting Device" parameters, and add an alternate name that perfectly matches the Lightwright field's name, the autolink works perfectly. And the added bonus is that in the OIP, you see the alternate name, instead of (in my case) "user field 1", "user field 2", etc., etc..

This saves a lot of time on the import end - making a mapping file unnecessary. Now if there only was a way to avoid loading an export mapping file!