Understanding Production Management Metadata
The properties that are displayed in the Metadata tab are determined by settings in the Property Layout view in the Interplay Administrator application. An administrator can select both system properties and custom properties as follows:
• On the System Properties tab, select items in the Inspector Default column.
• On the Custom Metadata tab, select items in the Inspector Default column.
A user must have write permission on an asset to add a property to an asset.
For information on system and custom properties, and assigning permissions, see the Interplay | Engine and Interplay | Archive Engine Administration Guide.
Note the following:
• You can see asset metadata when loading Production Management and Archive Production clips. Archive Production usually has a different set of System Properties than Production Management, but the same properties behave the same in both systems.
• The properties are arranged in the System Properties and Custom Metadata groups on the Metadata tab.
• Text input is limited to 32 kilobytes data.
If you try to save information that exceeds this limit, a warning message tells you that the text exceeds the corresponding 32 kilobytes data limit.
• The following characters are not valid for Production Management asset names: / \ |
If you use invalid characters, a message opens when you click outside the field. Since invalid characters are not removed automatically from the asset name field, you have to remove them manually.
• If an administrator has created a custom property that includes a list of values from which users can choose one value, this list (“taxonomy”) can be used in the Metadata tab. Depending on the configuration, the taxonomy can contain a simple list of options (also referred to as “legal list”) or a hierarchy of options and suboptions (also referred to as “thesaurus”).
• If an administrator has configured a Categories property in the Site Settings section of the Interplay Administrator window, users can add multiple values. By default, no categories are configured in the Interplay Administrator.
For more information, see:
