When creating or editing elements under the Flexi-metadata section, the following data types are supported:
Node: Element is used to group metadata items and avoid them being placed in the root of the experimental metadata category. - Sample: CustomCategory
Binary: Metadata used for holding binary data such as binary, varbinary, image and bit. Binary fields are used by Etere, for example, to store mapped assets thumbnails. - Sample: 010001010010110
Boolean: Metadata contains fixed number values (i.e. true or false). - Sample: true
Date time: Metadata used for date and time combination (or only date or time) - Sample: 21/02/2012 15:33:45.123
Integer: Metadata holding an exact and signed mathematical integer. Integers are stored in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes depending on the magnitude of the value. The range of stored integer numbers (int64) goes from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807 (or -263 to 263 -1). - Sample: 27
Real: Metadata holding a floating-point value. Reals are stored as an 8-byte IEEE floating-point number; a range of stored real numbers is 1.7E +/-308 (15 digits of precision). - Sample: 13,65468
String: Metadata holding text string values. Strings are stored using the database encoding (e.g. UTF-8). - Sample: fantasyland