Metadata Question...

[feeco]

I am new to alfresco and trying to figure out the metadata stuff. I uploaded a jpg file with the following metadata fields: Title, subject, rating, tags and comments. Does this info stay with the file when I import it into alfresco? I don't think it does, because when I am in the alfresco web interface I click the file and the info is blank and when i do a search the file doesn't come up. But when I view the file in cifs - where I map a drive to the file the metadata info is there. Am I missing something? Do I need to set up a rule or something to "extract" this metadata? Thanks

[mikeh]

When you view the file in CIFS, your native desktop software is reading the metadata and displaying it directly from the file. When you view the file in Alfresco, it's showing the metadata associated with the content depending on the type and model applied.

In 3.4 we've introduced EXIF metadata extractors thanks to the Apache Tika libraries. I'm not sure tags and ratings are part of the standard metadata set, but everything else should come across.

Thanks,
Mike

[feeco]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your reply. That's great news with alfresco 3.4. Do you know if you can put the metadata info in the regular search box or does it actually have to go in the appropriate search box by doing an advanced search (ex. Title = xxxx). Thanks again! 

[ethan]

Hi

You can add custom meta-data to the simple search form by adding the following code in your web-client-config-custom.xml file :

<config>
      <client>
         <simple-search-additional-attributes>
             <qname>{your.model.uri}your.property</qname>
         </simple-search-additional-attributes>
      </client>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍