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Overview of Administering Metadata

You use metadata administration to create and manage a customization package. A customization package is associated with a set of metadata files that Siebel CRM Desktop treats as a Siebel file attachment. You can perform the following work in metadata administration:

• Upload a metadata file to the Siebel Server.
• Create, update, or delete a customization package.
• Display customization packages that are available, including information about a customization package, such as information about child metadata files.
• Create, update, or delete a metadata file.
• Display metadata files and the details about each metadata file.
• Associate a metadata file with a customization package.
• Download the necessary metadata files through Web services for the user.
• Track the expiration of a customization package and files.
• Control privileges for the user.
• Control access that the user possesses to a customization package.

For more information about:

• Work you perform to administer metadata during installation, see Administering Metadata Files and Creating and Publishing the Customization Package.
• A description of metadata files that you can administer, see About Metadata Files.
• The process that Siebel CRM Desktop performs to synchronize metadata, see How Siebel CRM Desktop Synchronizes Data Between the Client and the Siebel Server.