Cascade CMS Metadata Use Table - University of Houston
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Inside Cascade, Editors can switch their User Settings to allow them to view assets throughout the interface using either: Metadata Titles or Display Names; or System Names. 

Cascade's Common Metadata Set by Use

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Read further to see how Cascade uses various Metadata Set values to help build web pages! The most important categories have been highlighted in yellow and are at the top of the table.

TIPs:

  • Folder Titles drive the on-page sub-navigation Breadcrumb and Left Nav items;
  • and some Chooser tools can look for Metadata text to carry hyperlinks, such as: the Custom Header Menu page Choosers (unless you tell them not to); and Related Links set Choosers pointed to pages and files.
     

Metadata Categories and How their Values may be Used

CATEGORY Used By Site Visitor Sees Largely Ignored By

Metadata Use Table
Title
   Folders Left Nav text and Breadcrumb text which carry links to those Folders' respective immediate child "index" pages;  Blocks, Redirects, External Link Assets, specialized-page-assets which exist only to feed content to other default "index' pages; (except as a way to identify those assets within the Cascade interface itself)
Pages:
any default "index" Page; any page designed to display to the public on publish; 		 Browser window title bar or tab text;
Header Menu links text [if not overridden];
a News Article Page a News Article's Title is used to create the hyper-linked text on a News Listings page, which takes the site visitor to the article itself; 
Display Name
   Pages:
any default "index" Page; any page designed to display to the public on publish;		 Page's main Headline;
Header Menu links text [if not overridden];		 Folders, Blocks, Redirects, External Link Assets, specialized-page-assets which exist only to feed content to other default "index' pages; (except as a way to identify those assets within the Cascade interface itself)
Files Related Links set hyperlinked text;
Description
Pages:
any default "index" Page; any page designed to display to the public on publish		 text related to links posted in various media contexts (e.g. Outlook emails or Teams chats); also, if you think of search engines as "site visitors" then they see this in the published pages' source code (so remember: well-crafted Descriptions can help with SEO!)
 		 site visitors (who won't see it on the web page itself unless they view the source code)
Custom Metadata
   Folders
  • Left Nav text - if a Folder's "Display in Menu?" setting is elected, the Folder's Title can be used to carry the link taking the site visitor to the Folder's immediate child page;
  • a Left Nav menu focused only on the Folder itself and its descendent items - if Folder's "Display as Header" is elected;
  • a Custom Header for the Folder's area - if both "Display as Header" and "Custom Header" are elected, AND if a custom header-local type asset is elected by this Folder's immediate child page [must be a home-type-page]
  • a Custom Footer for the Folder's area - if all of these are elected: "Display as Header", "Custom Header", and "Custom Footer" AND if a custom footer asset is elected by this Folder's immediate child page [must be a home-type page]
 any type of asset for which the custom metadata has not been administratively added
some area-specific article-type Pages
 		 By-line information for the group's members only;
Summary Article-Page nothing, likely.
may appear as a "blurb" describing an article on some specifically customized News Listings-type pages;		 pretty much everything (not currently used in Cascade's dynamic transformations)
Teaser Article-Page; Article-Listing-Page an Article page's Teaser text becomes the descriptive "blurb" for that article which appears below the article's link on a News-Listings type page; pretty much everything except article-related pages
Keywords Any stand-alone Page nothing visible on the page per se; some search or social media contexts pretty much everything
Author Article Page By-line on an article page; pretty much everything except article-related pages
Start Date Article Page; any publishable asset a new page, folder, or file; or a new version of those after Cascade automatically publishes the designated asset[s] on this editor-assigned date; publishable assets for which publishing is switched off directly or by an ancestor folder setting (can give a 'folder hierarchy' message)
End Date Any publishable asset the designated page, folder, or file has been unpublished/removed from server as of the End Date (outdated bookmarks may then throw the expected 404 not-found error); publishable assets for which publishing is switched off directly or by an ancestor folder setting (can give a 'folder hierarchy' message)
Expiration Folder Any publishable asset likely nothing
(not visible outside Cascade; represents an asset-tree change - expired asset [asset for which an End Date has been reached] is both Unpublished and Moved to whatever this Choosen folder may be);		 everything except publishable assets destined to be moved there
Review Date Any asset likely nothing
(not visible outside Cascade; asset shows up on a Dashboard/My Content report); 		 everyone except Cascade Editors (who should NOT ignore it - indicates material which needs to be reviewed by a certain date);