File metadata & custom attributes

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File custom attributes from Account admin

Custom attributes can be assigned to project files from Account admin dashboard . All projects of the account will have a standard template of the custom attributes.

Adding or Editing File metadata

The file custom attributes , metadata can be added or edited by -

Selecting the file details (by any project member - as shown above) .
Selecting multiple files (by project admin)

Bulk add or edit of file metadata

It is possible for project admins to bulk add / edit file metadata in a project. There are 2 options -

Update metadata for selected files
Update metadata for files belonging to folders

NOTE : Selecting folder(s) will update the files belonging to the particular folder(s) but not the nested folders. We had to restrict updates for files belonging to particular folder for performance reasons.

Clicking on “Change file metadata” from the right panel will list the project’s file metadata/custom attributes.

For example, in case above, it will show -

You can then add the metadata to the selected files. In case a large number of files are selected, the update might take some time.

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