Metadata for Native Documents

With native documents, you often have control over the metadata that is assigned to them when you check them in (unlike contributor data files, which often are assigned metadata by Site Studio Contributor). This is especially true if you use the check-in page on the content server or the Desktop Integration Suite client to add native documents to the site (see Checking In Native Documents Using Content Server).

The metadata values are particularly important in case your site is ever moved, backed up, published, or used to generate reports. These values are what tell Site Studio that the document belongs to the site.

Metadata Field	Definition
Web Sites	Identifies the Site Studio Web sites in the content server.
Web Site Section	Identifies a Site Studio Web site section in the content server.
Web Site Object Type	Identifies a type of file on a Site Studio Web site. Choose Native Document as the Website Object Type when checking in native documents.

Please note the following:

• In addition to the above metadata, you may need to enter custom metadata values that are required for your document to appear in a dynamic list on the Web site. Contact your site designer or site manager for details.

• If you use the features in Site Studio Contributor to add a native document to a Web site, all of these metadata values are automatically assigned to the document for you. If you use another method to check in native documents (for example, the Content Server check-in page or the Desktop Integration Suite client), then you must ensure that this metadata gets assigned to the document. For more information, see Adding Native Documents to a Web Site.

• To update the "Web Sites" and "Web Site Section" metadata for a native document, you can open the content information update page for the native document on the content server, click Browse beside one of those metadata values, and select the appropriate Web site or Web site section.