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Metadata is data about data. After defining metadata schemas, you can add metadata to the Components, Multimedia Components,Keywords, Publications, Folders and Virtual Folders, Structure Groups, Pages, Bundles in the Content Manager. Metadata is also associated with published items, and allows content to be dynamically selected for pages in web applications.

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Tridion Event System - Assign a string value to a metadata field

I'm currently encountering an issue with the Tridion Event System. Specifically, I've been attempting to assign a string value to a metadata field in a component but I've tried several methods none of ...
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Metadata Design tab in Sites 9.5 and 9.6

In 9.5 and 9.6 it is now possible to use the Metadata Design tab of a page schema, instead of using an embedded metadata schema, for both XS and CME. A nice technical and business-oriented discussion ...
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Can a Page on CM be tagged with multiple taxonomies & queried via API?

I want to send the page content via SDL API based on the taxonomies similar to what we can do with the dynamic components. Hence, could you please provide some pointers on the following: Is it ...
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C# how to add values in ItemFields inside EmbeddedSchemaField of a STUB component

I have an embedded schema for a STUB component metadata field which has 4 fields and marked as "Allow Multiple Values", along-with other fields in SDL Tridion. I am using SDL Tridion Web 9.0....
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Tridion - compare function metadata issue upgrade from Tridion 2011 SP2 to Sites 9

When we compare Pages with metadata, we are getting following error:
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Retrieving KeywordModel metadata inside component model of a nested category/keyword (DXA 2.0.3, Java)

I've been trying to retrieve the metadata value of extended entity of KeywordModel on DXA 2.0.3 with no luck. My component is called kennisitem with the following schema: Kennisitem has a metadata ...
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NumberFormatException in Content Service

We have a Java website running on the latest hotfix version of CIL (8.5.0-16778). The CMS we are using is SDL Web 8.5 with the micro-service CD environment. Our site makes multiple calls to the ...
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In which table I can see Keyword Metadata Information in Broker Db?

We have keywords which have Metadata Schema and some values in the Keyword metadata. Is there any specific table where I can see Metadata info for the Keywords? I can see one Entry in Custom_Meta ...
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Page template metadata in DXA - htmlClasses field is blank

The page template metadata for DXA 2.0 has a field named "htmlClasses". We have been attempting to use this in our java web app but, so far, every attempt has resulted in this field appearing as null. ...
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Inheriting metadata between publications, map and topics in Tridion Docs

I was wondering if there is a nice approach for inheriting metadata fields between different levels of authoring in Tridion Docs (i.e. publications, maps and topics). In other words, can anyone ...
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Can I access the "Item" custom meta (metadata fields) in a Storage Extension?

I am trying to determine whether I need to process anything in my Storage Extension depending on certain fields in the item metadata. (I am extending all 3, Page, ComponentPrensentation and Binary ...
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Get Root Structure Group metadata in DXA 2.0 Pages

We are using the R2 Data Model builder InheritMetadataPageModelBuilder, in order to add the metadata of an SG on the page. However, there's no a recursive behavior there. SG 1 (Metadata) > SG 2 > ...
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Issues while querying Number type metadata fileds through JSP content broker query API

I have a legacy implementation where we have some components got number type metadata filed. Downstream applications uses JSP content broker query API and queries for components with number filters. ...
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What's the modern equivalent of ComponentMetaFactory?

I'm using Web 8.5 and trying to construct a content delivery query to extract the schema of a given component. In older versions of Tridion, I'd have used a ComponentMetaFactory to get the ...
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Can we add metadata fields to RTF links to Asset Components?

Is there a possibility to include file metadata fields to the anchor's markup in RTF? On our custom Rich Text Field class, we want to access image and file metadata fields to extend functionalities ...
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How to get Structure Group metadata in DXA 2.0 Pages

I want to access Structure Group metadata in my DXA 2.0 (Java) Pages. Following the documentation I have added the InheritMetadataPageModelBuilder model builder to the pipeline in my Page Rendering ...
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Metadata field using embedded Schema is not populating

Tridion 2013 DXA Java 1.5 I am trying to pick up in my JSP a Page metadata field that is set to accept multiple values AND uses an embedded Schema. @SemanticEntity(entityName = "CustomPageMetadata", ...
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Tridion 2013 JSP multiple value metadata only displaying single value

I inherited a Tridion 2013 page that has a metadata field set to "Embedded Schema", with "allow multiple values" checked. I am trying to access these values on a JSP page from the pageModel. The ...
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How to get RenderingMetadata in Deployer Exension?

I want to add Component's metadata to transport package, and get it from Deployer Extension. I wrote following code in C# TBB, then metadata is included in component_presentations.xml, which is in ...
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Metadata on linked component not retrieved when getting dynamic component

When calling: DD4T.Factories.ComponentFactory.GetComponent(componentUri); The metadata values, for a component added as a component link to the parent component associated with the componentUri ...
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Add custom page metadata in deployer extension

I'm using Tridion 2013 SP1, and I'm wondering how to extend a page metadata in a deployer extension. I need to extract the existing one and add new ones. BTW, As a best practice, Should I do it at ...
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Call order for itemtypes Page with multiple storage types

I'm using SDL Tridion 2013 SP1. I want to make a REST call for each Page item that's being deployed with a few page metadata values. For that I'm thinking about three options: Creating a Storage ...
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Using multiple custom meta data keyword Criteria in a single query as LIKE operators

I need to accomplish the following, and I can't find any working method for it. We have articles with a custom metadata field of comma-separated keyword values, the code I've built split's by comma ...
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Accessing an embedded schema in a components meta data with the Java API

I've encountered an issue with the Java API that has me scratching my head. I have created a component with a metadata of which one field is a multi value embedded schema. I'm trying to access it to ...
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How to get the image URL from Structure Group Metadata using C# TBB

I have created a Structure group Metadata having image field. when I try to read the image url, I am getting the TCM ID. ItemFields metadataFields = new ItemFields(objSG.Metadata, objSG....
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DXA 1.5 - Category / Keyword Metadata approach

We have a couple of Category/Keywords that are using a MetaData Schema, and the Tag class provided by DXA doesn't contain the metadata and looking at the source code I can't see a way to easily enrich ...
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while reading metadata multi value field of a component, getting double the count of keywords in tom.net TBB

I have a component with a metadata multiselect field as Location, for which options will load from a category. Users are allowed to select more then one option. I have below code which is working fine ...
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Bundle Metadata weirdness when changing a Bundle Type

Issue: When I copy and paste a bundle and change the Bundle Type (to a schema that uses some of the same metadata field names), the GUI reports that the metadata is not correct. Example: 2 Bundles. ...
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Is there a way to update publication metadata dynamically while publishing page/component?

We are using Tridion 2013sp1. And DD4T at content delivery. Our binaries are published to cdn server. Each publication target will publish binaries to different cdn server. Hence, we are unable to ...
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How to get component meta data fields and values using core service? Please provide examples

Tridion2013. Can someone provide example of core service code retrieving list of metadata fields of a component from multiple folders. Instead of hardcoding the metadata field name, I would like to ...
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Component Metadata values becomes Null/Empty in Broker after re-publishing it dynamically

We have a component having below fields in the metadata: ID (Single Line Text Field) Expire Date (Date Field) Message (Single Line Text Field) With this when we publish this component, the values ...
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How to access custom meta of publication in JAVA?

I have some meta data at the Publication level which I am trying to access using the Content Delivery API (JAVA), I can see the functions to get Page & Component metadata but could't find the way ...
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Tridion Custom metadata for datetime mandatory field is updating as null during siteedit

I have an article schema which have two metadata fields- 1. Published_date | field type - Datetime (mandatory) 2. tags | field type - Text whenever content editor edit/update ...
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Retrieving binary titles from the Broker DB

I am currently writing an indexer to put SDL Tridion Content into a search engine. The content includes Component Presentations, Pages and Binary Variants. I need to retrieve a Title for each of these....
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MetaData exception duing creating new component using core service

I am using below code to create a new component from a existing component. However I am getting metadata exception ReadOptions _ReadOptions = new ReadOptions() { LoadFlags = LoadFlags.Expanded }; ...
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Changes in the way a componentlink in keyword metadata is stored in the Broker for 2013

We're in the process of migrating from 2009 to 2013. We have custom metadata stored on keywords and those keywords are published to the Broker. Before the migration, we could apparently get the ...
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DD4T: Access Root structure group metadata from child pages

We're using DD4T in our project. There's a new request from our client to add something specific in the head/footer tags for one site. I've tried adding it in a specific page metadata (two text ...
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Keyword: How can I access a keyword's metadata field value?

We have a category called ProductType with keywords to denote each type and we have a metadata schema called Product Group Metadata associated for each keyword. This metadata schema has three fields. ...
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Component Metadata not being stored in Custom_Meta table

I have 2 groups of components in 2 folders, both are not linked to any page, they are just standalone components, components in folder A are available in broker database and components in folder B are ...
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How to display metadata schema field keywords value in the content property of tag <meta name="keywords" content=""> in Template Building Block?

I have a Metadata Schema and it is attached to the page. My meta data schema have a keyword field and in this field value I have a keyword. I want to display the keyword value in the content property ...
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Inline editing of page metadata

We want our users to be able to link a component to the page metadata from XPM. Switching components is less user friendly in this case, so we are wondering whether it's possible to inline edit Page ...
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How to create MetaData Schema using Core Services?

I want to create a Metadata Schema using Core service with two fields Keywords and title so that I can attach this Metadata Schema on the page. But I didn't find any class to create a metadata. I ...
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What is difference between a Metadata Schema and a simple Schema

I am new in Tridion and want to know what is the difference between a Metadata Schema and a simple Schema?
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Tridion 2009 Set Metadata field value in C#

I have hundreds of pages that are using the same page metadata and I would like to set an specific value in one of this fields that is a text with C# or other automatic way. Does anyone knows how to ...
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How to add new custom metadata and update the same in Custom_meta table in Tridion Broker

I have a Component that has Metadata which gets Published to the Custom_meta table of the Broker database. Now I want to add a linked Component to the Metadata and have its information Published to ...
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Error importing using Content Porter 2009 SP1

I am facing the following error while importing the content. Even after syncing the Schema, the issue still persists. I am using Content Porter 2009 SP1. I also came to know that Metadata field has ...
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Can I view previous versions of publication metadata values?

Is there a way to view previous publication metadata values using the content management explorer (CME) in Tridion 2009 SP1? I'd also like to view things such as who made the last change and when it ...
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Component WebDAVUrl on Event System pre-Save not updated

I am attempting to hook into the Tridion Event System to insert a component's WebDAV URL into a MetaData field on that component during the save process. I have been led to understand that the ...
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Avoiding republish of all pages when Structure Group Metadata changes in DD4T

Imagine the following hierarchy of pages + structure groups (with the stated metadata field): (StructureGroup): Section [MetadataField: BodyCssClass (text)] (StructureGroup): About (Page): Default (...
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