System metadata for Components
When a Component is published, the following metadata is published:
Item information
- ID
- Author (login name, such as
yourorg\jshephard - Title
- Minor version
- Major version
- Publication ID
- Owning Publication ID
- Underlying Component Schema
- Whether this is a Multimedia Component or not
Date / time
- Creation
- Modification
- Initial Publication
- Last published
Categorization information:
- Categories and Keywords
- used for profiling and personalization, and for searching. These elements are always published, but can be empty if you have not yet assigned Categories and Keywords to an item such as a Page or Component.
The following is an example of Component Metadata, published to the file system:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component-meta id="12">
<title>SDL Tridion offers comparison of Internet strategies</title>
<author>MYMACHINE\Administrator</author>
<owning-publication id="20"/>
<version major="2" minor="1"/>
<created timestamp="2003-07-13T23:58:00"/>
<modified timestamp="2003-07-14T22:58:00"/>
<initial-publication timestamp="2003-07-15T22:58:00"/>
<last-publication timestamp="2003-07-17T22:58:00"/>
<categories>
<category name="News">
<keyword Id="22" Name="internet" TaxonomyId="3" />
<keyword Id="47" Name="company" TaxonomyId="7" />
</category>
</categories>
<schema>99</schema>
<isMultimedia>false</isMultimedia>
</component-meta>