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.

In summary, if you plan to include a metadata key-value pair when adding or updating an item in a Push source, first ensure you create a field with the same name in your index, unless you plan to define a custom mapping rule to handle the metadata.

The following diagram provides a simplified overview of the metadata-to-field mapping process for incoming Push source items:

The articles in this section help you push item metadata effectively: