Metadata for Confluence 3.0 – Unleash the potential of your metadata

We’ve just released a new version of our beloved app Metadata for Confluence and after reading this article, you will most certainly be excited to update.

Awesome new features

• Here come the highlights of Metadata for Confluence 3.0:
  • Manage the order of your Metadata Fields 
    You wanted it, so we made it: Space Admins can now change the the order of Metadata Fields easily by Drag & Drop.
  • Export & Import functionality for Metadata Sets 
    Ever needed your dozens of fields with hundred values on another Confluence instance, for example from a test to a production instance? Now you don’t need to copy and paste each field one by one anymore. Just export your Metadata Set and import it wherever you want it.
  • Copy the Metadata when copying / moving a Confluence Page 
    The time when you needed to re-configure your Metadata after copying or moving a page is finally over.
  • Compatibilities with other add-ons
    • Comala Publishing compatibility 
      Now Metadata values get published as well.
    • Templates for Blogposts
      The Metadata of a template are now assigned to new blogposts
    • Enterprise Theme compatibility 
      As in Confluence’s Default Theme, the Metadata icon is now displayed in the top bar in order to indicate if a page already contains Metadata and to give quick access to them.
      
  • Metadata Overview macro to work with Anonymous Access 
    Previously, meta data was only shown to logged-in users. Now unregistered visitors can also see the meta data displayed by the Metadata Overview macro – provided, of course, only if you have enabled Anonymous Access in your Confluence.
  • New Field Type: “Group” 
    Analog to the Field Type “User”, you can now select Confluence Groups with the new Field Type “Group”.
  • New macro: “Content by Metadata” 
    Just like with the Content by Label macro, you can create a list of pages/blogs by applying all sorts of filters. But in addition, you can filter by metadata values. So you could say it’s like the Metadata Overview macro, but it shows only the titles in a clean list.
    
  • more new features
    • 🇩🇪 German translation included 
    • Metadata Overview macro: option to display a search form in table header that provides sub filtering functionality 
    • Metadata Overview macro: added option to show the excerpts of the resulting pages 
    • Metadata Display macro: added option to hide the table headline 
    • Display Metadata macro: when render mode “value” is selected, the macro placeholder will now preview the Metadata Value that will be rendered after saving 

  Useful improvements

  • Metadata Sets and Metadata Fields support all characters 
    Ä / 民 é % $ ☎ ܒܠܫܢ̈ ß … everything works now for Sets, Fields and Values
  • Performance improvements
    • Metadata 3.0 can cope with large result numbers in Metadata Overview macro  
    • The Metadata Editor Sidebar will load much faster 

  Most noticeable Bug Fixes

  • Endless “Metadata changed” email notification loop 
  • CQL Filter in overview macro isn’t responding to “Current Space” or “Current Page” filter 
  • Trick to save empty fields although they are required 
  • Trick to get the metadata of a page that user is not permitted to view 
  • Metadata is causing bad performance in Confluence 
  • Link Field: On big Confluence instances, selection of links sometimes not possible 
  • Search does not find correct value 
  • Pager of Metadata Overview Macro doesn’t work if last page contains less than page size results 

Click here to see the whole list of public issues that influenced this release.