Each Silva Publication, Folder and Document has a property screen that can contain metadata and other settings relevant to that item You reach the properties area by clicking on properties in the top navigation bar. (Fig.1)
Fig. 1 Silva metadata.
For Silva Folders, the convert to publication button appears on the top left in the properties section. Pressing this button will convert the Silva Folder to a Silva Publication. The button will then change to convert to folder in case you want to convert back.
For Silva Publications, pressing this button will convert the Silva Publication to a Silva Folder. The button will then change to convert to publication in case you want to convert back.
You can change the metadata associated with an item by filling in values. Certain information is filled in automatically by Silva. (The core sets «silva-content» and «silva-extra» are defined by Silva itself and are needed for Silva's operation)
For some metadata elements, it is very useful to be able to acquire values from higher up in the tree. This way an element like “subject” only needs to be filled in once per subsite, instead of for each and everypage of the subsite.
The content of some elements can be acquired from its parents. This is indicated by a dagger (†) in the “acquired content” column for that element. If there's nothing entered higher up in the tree, then this column will be empty except for the dagger. If an acquired value is present then the dagger is shown at the end of the text.
In case of versioned content like Silva Document, metadata is versioned along with the document content. The metadata becomes uneditable as soon as the document version is approved. In this case the properties tab will just display the metadata without allowing the user to edit it.
As soon as a new editable version of the item is created, the metadata becomes editable again. The published version's metadata is still available to the public site, however, until a new version with changed metadata is published.
Metadata of Publications, Folders and assets is not versioned and can always be edited.
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