Plumtree EDK (Enterprise Web Development Kit) 5.4.0 |

# IDocument.GetMetaData Method

Returns the metadata information about this document.

DocumentMetaData GetMetaData(
string[] filter
);

#### Parameters

filter
  a string array containing the desired metadata attributes; returns all metadata attributes if null

#### Return Value

the metadata object

#### Remarks

Certain reserved field names are handled specially:

Name
  The name of the link in the portal.
Description
  The description of the link in the portal.
File Name
  The name of the click-through file.
Content Type
  The content type of the click-through file.
URL
  The URL of the document.
Image UUID
  Overrides the default image displayed next to the document link in the portal. Must refer to an image installed on the image server. Typically this is only used for custom types.

Properties will only be imported if they are mapped in the Global Property Map of the portal and are not read-only. All unmapped properties will be discarded.

> Note when providing values for date properties, the value should be in the format MM/dd/yy hh:mm:ss AM. For example, 10/25/04 11:53:30 PM.

The following properties are always read-only: Crawler Tag, Content Language, Object Created, Object Last Modified and Document Type ID.

#### See Also

IDocument Interface | Plumtree.Remote.Crawler Namespace | ToString | DateTimeFormatInfo