Custom Metadata

A Metadata Entity is any element that has a related metadata form with sections and metadata fields. Examples of Metadata Entities could be Productions, Playlists, Acquisition Contracts, Commercial Contracts, Companies, etc.). By default, VSNCrea has more than 50 existing metadata entites.

In this section you will learn how create your own metadata entities or modify the existing ones.

To access to the Custom Metadata section, go to Administration >> Custom Metadata

Search by text

Start typing a text and click Enter. The system will show you the results matching with your query

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Filter Options

Click the drop down menu to display the filtering options. Select your filters and click on the "Search" button.

Click

to clear the value and remove the filter.

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Sort by field

You can click on any of the available fields in the columns, to order the results, ascending

or descending

Each user can also change the position of each column just using drag & drop.

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Select / Unselect All

Click on this checkbox to select or unselect all the elements of the list. When selected, the trash icon to delete all will be enabled.

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Select / Unselect

To select or unselect individual elements, click each checkbox. When some element is selected, the trash icon to delete them will be enabled.

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Edit Metadata Entity

To edit an existing subchannel:

Mouse over on the element and click the icon;

or just one click on the selected row.

This will open the metadata entity form, to edit all the available metadata fields.

Details. The metadata entities have Display Name and Icon.

You cannot edit the details information of the system records.
Page Layout. This is the layout of the metadata forms related to the metadata entity you are modifying. Here there will appear the metadata fields distributed in different sections.

You cannot modify the system metadata fields.

For more information, go to How to add, modify or delete metadata fields in the layout

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Delete Metadata Entity

To delete a metadata entity:

Mouse over the element, and click on the icon

Select or multi-select them using the checkboxes and click on the top trash icon

This action will show the following dialog:

Click

to delete the selected users, or

to cancel the operation.

If the element you want to delete has dependences , it won't be deleted and the system will show you a list of existing dependences

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Create new Metadata Entity

Click on this button to create a new Metadata Entity.

This will open the metadata form, where you must introduce (at least) the mandatory fields.

Display Name. Name of the new Metadata Entity
Icon. Select one of the existing icons that will represent the new metadata field.
Show in menu. Check or uncheck to show or hide the metadata entity from the top menu of the application.

To cancel the operation, click "Cancel". To save the changes and keep in the creation form, click "Save". To save the changes and go back to the previous list, click "Save & Go Back".

Every new metadata field will have some pre-defined system metadata fields. Your own custom metadata entities will be indicated with the value "Is custom":