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1.
Use an Execute Data Mapping task or Retrieve Items task to create a record set. On the
General tab select Outputs records in Metadata.
2.
Add a value to a field in the Metadata using the Metadata Fields Management task.
Data added to the _vger_fld_ExtraData field on the Document level will appear in the
record's ExtraData field, once the records are updated from the Metadata (in the next
step).
Other fields have the same prefix: _vger_fld_.
3.
Update the record/s from the Metadata. There are several ways to do this. You could, for
example:
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Use the Update Data Records plugin.
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Add an Output task and check the option Update records with Metadata.
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Select Metadata as the data source in the Create Preview PDF plugin.
Note
Many of these actions can also be performed using REST calls.
Please refer to PlanetPress Connect Workflow documentation for more information about the
plugins involved.
Fields
Extracted data are stored in fields in the Data Model (see "The Data Model" on page151).
Fields can be present on different levels: on the record level or in a detail table (see "Example "
on page196).
Fields always belong to an Extract step, as can be seen on the Step Properties pane (see
"Settings for location-based fields in a Text file" on page221), but they don't necessarily all
contain extracted data.
Location-based fields do: they read data from a certain location in the data source.
Other fields may contain the result of a JavaScript (JavScript-based fields) or the value of a
property (property-based fields).
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