How to quickly find documents again!
Metadata are structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage a source of information, in short: metadata are "data about data".
For the easy management of many documents
metadata are essential.
Metadata of a document contain, e.g., information about the type of document, authors, the creation date or specific information such as the invoice amount, contract number or similar. The more information stored in the form of metadata about a document, the better it can be managed and retrieved later on.
In the articles "Tips & Tricks: Alternative file names" and "Tips & Tricks: Combined fields" we have shown you how to equip your generated documents with automated, meaningful, individual file names. Below, we would like to briefly explain how you can store additional information as so-called metadata alongside the file name.