The Metadata Plugin
Metadata Management for Manila
 
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  • How to Install the Metadata Plugin - How to get the plugin up and running

  • Managing Meta Types - The main interface for managing the Metadata Plugin

  • How to Set Up Full-Text Indexing for Your Manila Site - A quick and easy how-to.

  • Custom Field Formats - How to customize metadata entry forms. For advanced users.

  • Scheduled Publishing - Schedule your pages for later publication. Or delay effects of your editing.

  • Index Maintenance - How to maintain your index, edit page scores, and put meta types with boolean and radio formats to good use

  • Macro Expansion - Using macros inside fields to make metadata entry easier

  • Scenarios - Examples of how people use the Metadata Plugin

  • The showVal() Macro - Display metainformation in a page

  • The eval() Macro - Evaluate strings which may include metadata. Useful for building custom URLs.

  • The conditionalString() Macro - Evaluate a condition and return text if the condition is true.

  • The showCount() Macro - Display the number of times a metadata value occurs in a meta type.

  • The query() Macro - The basic macro for querying metadata and displaying results.

  • The navigator() Macro - Automatic next/previous links based on the order of a meta type you specify.

  • The searchkw() Macro - Show pages for a given meta type-meta value pair (deprecated, use query macro)

  • The showrelated() Macro - How to easily show related pages on your site (deprecated, use query macro)

  • The showIndex() Macro - View the index of a meta type

  • The siteLastModified() Macro - Gives the time the latest page modification in the site took place

  • The recentlyChangedPages() Macro - Returns a list of recently changed pages on your site.

  • The metaSearchForm() and metaSearchResults() Macros - Search through the metainformation in your site.

  • The page() Macro - Fill in multiple metadata values in your page, including macro generation. Powerful.

  • Subtemplates and Multiple Templates in Manila - How to use multiple templates on your site with the drop of a menu

  • How to Create an Automatic Site Index - How to easily create an automatic Site Index for your site

  • Using the Metadata Plugin with News Items - How to use the Metadata Plugin to add metadata to news items.

  • Built-In Meta Types - Index the contents of the standard Manila message table.

  • Custom Input Form Templates - Advanced customization of Manila's Edit-This-Page form.

  • Triggers - Scripts that fire when a meta value matches some condition.

  • How to Set Up Full-Text Indexing for Your Manila Site

  • navigator() macro

  • conditionalString() macro


  • This page last updated Monday, January 3, 2000 at 7:46:00 PM. ()