Information (metadata)

OBSERVE! From SiteVision 2.5 metadata is versioned. Hence, you will need to publish all change being made to metadata. In earlier versions it was sufficient to save.

Traditionally metadata have often been used to create META-tags in the HTML source code of web pages as storage of information. For instance the META-tag "keywords" is commonly used to inform visiting search engines about the content of the page. The Metadata function in SiteVision supports this kind of feature.

SiteVision is using metadata in other ways as well, e.g to decide who the editor is of a page, or width and height of an image in the image archive. In principle it is possible to add metadata to any kind of page or object in SiteVision.

Metadata values can be changed in two ways. Either you go directly to the tab Information (Metadata) under properties on each page/object, or you can set the value in the window opened when publishing the page. The reason why you can do this is that it is possible to set a metadata field to be a mandatory field, i.e. there must be a value set before publishing. In that case it is a great help to be able to change metadata value when publishing.

Metadata field

A metadata field consists of two parts: a definition and an associated value for each page.

Metadata definitionen

The metadata definition contains the name and description of the field. It also contains settings, if the field should be mandatory and/or if the field should be indexed by the built-in search engine to make it possible to search on the metadata.

Metadata value

The metadata value is the value associated with the definition. For instance it can be a userdefined text value. A value can also be defined automatically by the system. An example is the latest user modifying the page.

On the tab Information (Metadata) you can see the metadata that are set up on the website:

To the right of the name of the metadata field there are two icons.

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roperties for metadata

Through this button existing settings for a definition can be changed. You can only change definitions that are added on the current page. If you want to change a definition that is inherited (the description has a grey color) you have to do this on the page where the definition was added. Most definitions are added on the website (the start page).

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emove metadata field

Removes a definition and all associated values.
At the bottom you can see two additional icons:

Inherit metadata definitions

If the checkbox is ticked metadata fields configured on pages situated above the current page are included as well. If you would like to brake the inheritance you uncheck this box. Then the only metadata definitions that will show are the ones set up on the page.

Add metadata definition

You can add a new metadata field on the current page by clicking this icon.

Sort metadata

By clicking this icon you can sort existing metadata fields. A new window will open where all metadata fields will appear. Highlight desired metadata field and use up/down arrow to change the order of the sorting.

Permission requirement! It is only the users who have the permission to Manage metadata definitions who can add, remove and change existing metadata definitions.

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