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

[eric casteleijn]

>> 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.

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- eric casteleijn
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