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Global Metadata

Global Metadata is an abstraction layer to control and unite definition of specific metadata with same purpose. It allows the administrators to use already defined metadata marked as global and group all various content for different objects under one precise definition.

Global Metadata can be created in 2 ways:

  • Defined in the Core and used in the Connector.
  • Promote existing Connector metadata to Global Metadata.

Characteristics​

The characteristics of Global Metadata are:

  • Global Metadata is not available for the user to create or update.
  • Any metadata from the connector can be made as Global Metadata by enabling the property global in the attribute property configuration.
  • Name of the Global Metadata should match the name of the attribute in the Connector.
  • If a Global Metadata is not defined but enabled in the connector, its definition will be stored as a global metadata.
  • If a Global Metadata is defined and not enabled in the connector, it will be stored as a connector metadata.
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Global Metadata is currently supported only in Core through API interface.

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To know more about how to work with Attributes, see Using Attributes.