About Document and Object Properties

Properties provide information about, as well as a way to search for, documents and objects in your portal. For example, you might want to create an Author property so users can find all the documents or objects created by a particular user.

When you add documents to the portal, the portal maps source document fields to portal properties according to mappings you specify in the Global Content Type Map, the particular content type definition, the Global Document Property Map, and any content crawler-specific content type mappings.

Creating a Property to Store Object MetadataProperties provide information about, as well as a way to search for, documents and objects in your portal. For example, you might want to create an Author property so users can find all the documents or objects created by a particular user.
Mapping Source Document Attributes to Portal Properties Using the Global Document Property MapThe Global Document Property Map provides default mappings for properties common to the documents in your portal. When users import documents into the portal (either manually or through a content crawler), property values can be extracted from the source documents according to the property mappings you specify in the associated content types and the property mappings from the Global Document Property Map.
Associating Properties with Portal Objects Using the Global Object Property MapThe Global Object Property Map displays all the types of portal objects with which you can associate properties. When users create a portal object, they can specify values for the associated properties on the Properties and Names page of the object's editor.
Associating User Information with Properties Using the User Information — Property MapThe User Information — Property Map enables you to map user information to user properties in the portal. The information in these user properties can then be displayed in the user's profile, or it can be sent to content crawlers, remote portlets, or federated searches so that users do not have to enter this information on a separate preference page.
Managing Object PropertiesYou can add or edit properties for an object.

Parent topic: Managing Portal Content

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About Document and Object Properties