Thesaurus Field

A Metadata Thesaurus Field allows the user to select one or more terms from a Thesaurus in the Asset Map.

Details Screen

The Details screen allows you to configure the settings for the Metadata Thesaurus Field.  

Details

This section allows you to change various details to do with the thesaurus field. The Details section of the Details screen is shown in the figure below.

The Details section of the Details screen of a Thesaurus Field

The following fields are available:

• Field Name: by default, the name that was entered when this field was created will appear in this field. You can change the name of the field by clicking into this field and entering the new name.  

  Tip: You should choose a name for your field that is unique across all Metadata Schemas in your system.  

• Friendly Name: enter a friendly name for the field. This will be displayed as the field name on the Metadata screen of an asset. If the name of the field is complicated or does not reflect what should be entered, you may want to enter a Friendly Name. For example, if you have named your field DC.Keywords, you may want the label on the Metadata screen to show Keywords instead.
• Description: enter a description for the field. This will be displayed on the Metadata screen of an asset. It can be used to display instructions to your users about how to enter a sensible value into the metadata field. For example, if your field is called Keywords you may wish to enter a description Please select term from the Thesaurus in the Asset Map.
• Default Value: select one or more Thesaurus Terms to use as the default value. These terms will appear on the Metadata screen of an asset. A user can then override the default values for the asset. These terms must come from the Thesaurus that has been selected in the Source Thesaurus Asset field. You can select more than one Thesaurus Term by clicking on the More… button.
• Scheme: enter the industry standard scheme for this field, for example AGLS. This will be placed in the HTML source code of a page.
• Language: enter the language for this field, for example English. This will be placed in the HTML source code of a page.

Thesaurus Settings

This section allows you to select which Thesaurus the user can use to select the terms from on the Metadata screen. They will only be able to select terms from this Thesaurus. The Thesaurus Settings section of the Details screen is shown in the figure below.

The Thesaurus Settings section

The following fields are available:

• Source Thesaurus Asset: select the Thesaurus the user should use to select the terms from.

Options

This section allows you to change the options for this field. The Options section of the Details screen is shown in the figure below.

The Options section

The following fields are available:

• Editable: select whether or not this field should be editable on the Metadata screen. If you have entered a default value that you do not want your users to override, you can change this option to No and the field will not be editable.
• Required: select whether or not this field is a required field. If you select Yes, the assets that have this Metadata Schema applied to it will not be able to go Live until a value has been entered into this field.
• Contextable?: select whether or not this field is context-aware. If you select Yes, this field will be allowed to take a different value for each context within the system. The default value of this field can also be set individually for each context. For more information, refer to the Contexts manual.
• Show On Frontend: select whether or not to show this field in the HTML source code of a page.  The options you can select from include:  
  • Always: select this option to always show this field in the HTML source code of a page.
  • Only if Filled: select this option to only show this field in the HTML source code of a page if it has been filled in.
  • Never: select this option to never show this field in the HTML source code of a page.

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