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Meta tags for files

Rene Poulsen
Rene Poulsen
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Hi,

I'm looking into creating some estimates for updating a lot of DW9 solutions to DW10. I've had some time to upgrade a relatively large solution - and actually it went pretty well - without spending to much time on it. But one thing I've stumbled upon is the missing UI for managing meta tags on files in the file archive. When copy the _sys_fields.xml and _sys_meta.xml files from a folder to the same folder in a DW10 solution, the meta tags actually works and I'm able to get e.g. a "title" of a file in the template in the same way as I did in in DW9. But there's UI for managing the fields or the values of the fields in the file archive in DW10. Is this comming? I really hope so as we've got a bunch of customers that uses modules to show a list of downloads - and it doesn't really make sense to show the file name - so we need to be able to manage meta tag fields :-)


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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
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Hi Rene

The DW9 UI for metatags we have chosen not to re-implement as we are actively seeking to implement a new and better asset meta data system based on the database and additional needs for handling assets in PIM.

We also chose to keep supporting the old XML files for compatibility of the rendering. So for now we do not have good solution to this issue, except editing the XML files directly - which I fully understand is a bad solution.

 
Rene Poulsen
Rene Poulsen
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@Nicolai sounds great that you're working on a new solution. Do you have any idea when this will be available? Or is it to early to say anything about that?

 
Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
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Currently it is a little early to give an ETA. We want to address asset management in more detail - both for just files and especially in combination with PIM.

 

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