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physical page) or evaluated on-the-fly (e.g. the number of documents in a group).
Attributes are non-repetitive (i.e. name is unique) and does not persist through metadata
recreation.
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Field: A read-write, user-defined element which hold custom information about a certain
node from the metadata structure. Fields are repetitive (i.e. the same field may appear
multiple times) and persist through metadata recreation.
In addition to attributes and fields, each node of type group, document or datapage have a
Boolean property called selected that indicates whether or not to produce the pages under that
node. By default, this property is set to true for all nodes.
Metadata Attributes Reference
Here is a description of the Metadata attributes. The attributes are categorized as either
Production, Finishing or Index/Count.
Production attributes describe the production of the job and/or metadata (e.g. path and name of
the datafile, date at which metadata was created, etc.)
Finishing attributes describe the finishing intent (e.g. page dimensions, page orientation,
duplex mode, etc.).
Note
The presence of some finishing attributes depends on the PlanetPress Connect document and target
device used when producing the job.
Index/Count attributes are not part of the original metadata file. They are evaluated live based
on the content of the metadata.
In the following table, the last 5 columns indicate at which level the corresponding attribute is
available.
Attribute Description Categor
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Gro
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Docum
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Datap
age
Pa
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DataEncoding (optional) Producti X X X
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