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This task will automatically "loop" through the metadata and repeat its action for each of your metadata's datapage.
This task should not within a Metadata Sequencer.
Metadata Fields Management task properties are as follows:
General tab
l Action: Select the type of Metadata Field Management action to perform. 5 action types are available:
l Add/Replace: Create a new metadata field. If the name already exists, the value is overwritten with the new
one.
l Duplicate: Create a new metadata field. If the fields already exist, a new instance is created.
l Append: Append the new value at the end of the current one. If no field with that name exists, a new one is
created.
l Sum: Calculate the sum of all values found inall fields of a given name, at a given level. The resulting number is
formatted by default with the dot decimal separator.
l Delete: Delete the metadata field if it exists and disables the Field information column's Field value option.
l Field Information: Specify the metadata node level, field name and field value of the specified action.
l Level: Choose between Job, Group, Document, Datapage. The task will loop through each selected node of the
chosen metadata level.
l Job: Apply the action on the specified field at the Job level.
l Group: Apply the action on the specified field at the Group level.
l Document: Apply the action on the specified field at the Document level.
l Data page: Apply the action on the specified field at the Data page level.
l Field Name: Enter the metadata field name on which the task will operate.
l Field Value: Enter the metadata field value. Note that if the chosenaction is Delete, this parameter is
disabled.For otheraction types,in order to set the field value, click the [...] button. This button opens the Data
Selector, which allows to specify a data selection as the field's value.
l Decimal Separator: Set the decimal separator for the Sum option. 3 possible modes are offered:
l Auto-detect: Interpret automatically the value. This option is ideal for documents using mixed decimal
separators. Note that the auto-detect option encountering the value 1,000 (with a comma separator),
interprets it as a thousand while interpreting 1.000 (with a dot separator), as one.
l .: Treat every value with the dot (".") decimal separator. Commas (",") are treated as thousand sep-
arator.
l ,: Treat every value with the comma (",") decimal separator. Dots (".") are treated as thousand sep-
arator.
l Condition: Define criteria for the Metadata Field Management action execution. The condition must be TRUE for the
action to execute. To set up conditions, the Rule Interface is displayed, allowing to edit the condition for the given
action. See the"Rule Interface" (page 201) page for more details.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
NewWild Card
For a given Metadata Field Management action, all nodes of a given level mightbe updated with a new Field Value.To accom-
modate this,metadata/data selection functions have beenmodified to accept a wild card parameter "?", indicating the function
operates on allnodes (not just one) of a given level.For example, in a PDF emulation, the format of a selected region is:
region(?,0.59375,2.21875,1.85416,2.51041,KeepCase,NoTrim)
where “?” represents the current physical data page processed by the task.
Limitations
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