Re: [Silva-general] bug?: metadata in full media import

Hi altogether

Please find my suggestion in an older mail on the Silva Developer 
mailing list: 
http://infrae.com/mailman_/pipermail/silva-dev/2003q3/000632.html

Best regards
Sam

>>> Currently, on export, all the metadata gets explicitly written out 
>>> into the xml, so any acquired metadata in the original is indeed 
>>> explicitly there in the copy. We probably have to build an option to 
>>> switch this off
>>>       
>> will this be an-all-or-nothing option or a tun on/off transformation of 
>> acquired to explizit option? as you know we have many layout 
>> configuration options in the metadata and having all of a sudden not 
>> acquired but explizit data leeds to unexpected behavior and unwanted 
>> layouts (it took me some time to figure this out). apart from that it 
>> takes a considerable time to manually clean up the metadata information. 
>> this is important when people want to fill in content offline using a 
>> silva instance running on their laptop and then making a full media 
>> export and then import on the server.
>>     
>
> The way I'd like to do it, is to have a checkbox in the export options 
> to either export acquired metadata explicitly, (the way it always 
> happens now) or to leave acquired fields acquired, so that they'll 
> acquire again when they're imported. A good way to phrase this is 
> already quite a task. I'm not sure when we'll get to this feature 
> though, I don't think it will be in the 1.6 final next week, maybe in a 
> point release after that, since it's a relatively small change in 
> functionality. It think it may be quite some work though.
>