Push source item metadata
Push source item metadata
Metadata is a key-value pair that typically provides a single specific piece of information about an item (for example, its author name). You can push as many distinct metadata key-value pairs as you need with each individual item you add or update in a Push source.
To be useful, metadata must populate at least one field in the index of your Coveo organization. By default, when the Coveo indexing pipeline processes a Push source item, it tries to map each incoming metadata key to a field of the same name in the index. This process is called automatic mapping.
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Notes
Only a few Coveo source types support automatic mapping for incoming item metadata. With many other source types, you must define mapping rules explicitly to populate index fields with incoming metadata. |
Automatic mapping doesn’t prevent you from configuring the Push source with custom mapping rules for specific metadata. Custom mapping rules specified for a given metadata key override automatic mapping.
In summary, if you plan to index the values for a given metadata key, ensure you first create a field with the same name, unless you plan to define a custom mapping rule to handle that metadata.
The following diagram illustrates the metadata mapping process for sources with automatic mapping enabled:
The articles in this section help you push item metadata effectively:
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