When you create a text meta tag you can insert variables into the value. If updates are made to the variable, it propagates to all applied instances of it.
Example A company wants its online technical documentation to include a copyright tag in the metadata. They simply want to add a layer of protection and record the fact that all the text, images, and other content are owned by the company.
Level
They create a text meta tag with a variable at the project level.
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From the Project ribbon, select Project Properties.
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In the Project Properties dialog, select the Meta Tags tab, and click
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In the Name field, enter copyright.
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In the Value field, select
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In the Variables dialog, from the General variable set, select a variable to link to the meta tag, and click OK.
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In Project Properties, click OK.
When metadata is set at the project level, the meta tags do not display in the source markup for topics (unless the value is overridden at the topic level), but they do show in output source pages.
Findability
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Content Management In Flare's dynamic reports (in the Analysis ribbon), you can open the Used Meta Tags or Used Variables window panes to see copyright metadata display in each, indicating that the metadata is applied at the project level.
Note You can also add system variables. A common use might be to stamp a date and time in the metadata for a web page.
