Metadata

Metadata lets you record facts of your own about each website and section, to track them beside its results: who owns it, which region or department it belongs to, the year it launched.

Properties#

A metadata property is one such field. Properties are defined once for the whole account, and each website and section can hold a value for each of them. Account administrators define them on the Metadata settings screen in Silktide; if you cannot find it, ask Silktide to set them up for you. The API reads them but does not create them.

Each property has a name, which is the key its values are read and set by, and a label, which is what people see. It holds one type of value:

propertyType	Holds
string	Text.
int	A whole number.
float	A decimal number.
bool	true or false.
url	A web address, as text.

A property can also be required, have a smallest and largest value (or length, for text), and offer a list of choices, with or without allowing other values. These are guidance for the forms people fill in: the API saves a value without checking it against them.

Values#

Read a section's values with Get a section's metadata, and change them with Set a section's metadata. Section 0 is the whole website; see Websites and sections. You can also give a new website its values when you create it.

In Silktide itself: Metadata screen, in Help.