Metadata Clears on Import

We are having the problem where metadata is cleared from an existing file if we import a new file over top of the old one. While this is not often done with HTML files, it is very common for image, pdf, and movie files. I remember seeing a setting that will preserve metadata on import but cannot find any documentation on the setting anywhere.

Please help!

TS 7.3.2 on Windows Server 2k8 R2

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nipper

This has been the OOTB behavior for a fairly long time. There is a GUI setting you can change. Check the TeamSite UI customization guide, look for this section: Configuring ContentCenter Extended Attribute Behavior upon Import
By default

Migrateduser

Thank you nipper, that was correct.

Just for completeness here though I will point out a mistake in the manual that closes the <default-param> tag with just an ending </param> tag which is incorrect. You should close it with a </default-param> tag as I have shown below.

At the page 57 and 58 of the "Interwoven User Interface Customization Guide" it states:

Configuring ContentCenter Extended Attribute Behavior upon Import
By default, when a file is imported into a TeamSite workarea replacing a file of the same
name in that workarea, no extended attributes (metadata) associated with the previous
version of that file are preserved and associated with the newly imported version.

To configure the ContentCenter GUIs to preserve extended attributes associated with an
older version of a file in a workarea being replaced by an imported file,
edit application_custom.xml:


<applications>
    <default-param id="iw.common.import.inherit_extended_attributes" value="true">
    </default-param>
</applications>

Note: Configuring this behavior within the ContentCenter GUIs has no effect on files
imported into a TeamSite workarea through other means, such as TeamSite Front
Office, the Intelligent File System, TeamPortal, or the ContentServices SDK.

This behavior can be overridden for either ContentCenter Standard or Professional at the
application level.