[silva-dev] getMetadataValue optionally acquires?

Thu Jun 8 15:25:26 CEST 2006

Hey Nico,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I didn't know that acquisition could be disabled 
for a metadata element.  

I suppose this is the practice recommended by Infrae.  I do think the api 
should be updated with my patch; it is very simple and harmless after all.  
We are using content-description, and would like to leverage it's use in both 
the html <head> as well as this specific use case in the gallery.  We can set 
a description for a site and have it appear in every document's <head> within 
the site.  Sounds like I have to disable this feature (acquisition) in order 
to get the functionality in the gallery that I want.  Or just use a custom 
metadata set on images.

Cheers,
Andy

> Hi Andy,
>
> I had the same problem here a couple of weeks ago.
> Assuming both your image's and gallery container's descriptions use the
> metadata element "content_description" defined in metadata set
> "silva-extra":
>
>    You must disable the acquisition for the metadata element
>    "content_description" that is used by your container.
>    In ZMI, go to:
>     /service_metadata/collection/silva-extra/content_description
>    Set "Enable Acquisition" to "No".
>
> If you don't use content_description metadata of silva-extra but an own
> set, you just need to do the same for your own metadata element.
>
> Regards,
>    Nico