Getting metadata is probably one of the most core features of the Digizuite. All metadata is requested through the same API. Metadata for multiple assets can be requested at the same time. This API is mainly intended to either do full metadata synchronization or to build metadata editors. If you just need some additional metadata to render your assets, it is recommended to use the metaFieldItemGuids parameter on the Get assets API.

URL: /digizuitecore/legacyservice/api/metadata/editor

Method: POST

Auth required: YES

Request properties

Name	Example	Description

Name	Example	Description
`itemIds`	`[9588, 9589]`	The item ids of the assets to request metadata for. Multiple ids can be passed.
`labelIds`	`[10438, 10437]` Requests keywords in english and danish only.	If you only want metadata for certain metafield label ids, then use this parameter.
`fieldItemIds`	`[5532, 5537]` Requests only the title and description metafields.	If you only want certain metafield, then you can pass the item ids of the metafields with this parameter.
`fieldItemGuids`	`["c8bb4af3-1598-4ea4-8d7a-98d54eead977", "5eb3eefc-a043-410f-89b0-29ed3ef37078"]`	If you only want certain metafield, then you can pass the item guids of the metafields with this parameter.
`groupIds`	`[10025]` All fields in the “Asset info” metadata group.	If you only want fields in a specific metadata group, then the group ids can be passed here.
`onlyShowInList`	`true` or `false`	If `true` then only fields with `show in list` selected will be returned. If `false`, fields will be returned irrespective of the value of `show in list`.
`languages`	`[1, 3]`	If multiple languages are enabled on the system, then this can be used to restrict what languages values are returned in. If empty or not specified, then all enabled languages will be returned.

Example request:

POST https://<my-dam>/digizuitecore/legacyservice/api/metadata/editor
Authorization: AccessKey MII...zfg==
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "itemIds": [
    9588
  ]
}

Example response:

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "Asset info",
      "groupId": 10025,
      "sortIndex": 0,
      "iterative": false,
      "visibilityRegex": null,
      "visibilityMetafieldId": null
    }
    // More objects omitted
  ],
  "fields": [
    {
      "type": 70,
      "maxLength": 0,
      "showRichTextEditor": false,
      "itemId": 9516,
      "metafieldId": 50384,
      "guid": "d658fe27-dbb2-415a-9771-f6781fd65f66",
      "name": "Message",
      "description": "",
      "sortIndex": 0,
      "visibilityMetaFieldId": 0,
      "visibilityRegex": "",
      "required": false,
      "readonly": true,
      "hasWriteAccess": false,
      "showInList": true,
      "system": false,
      "autoTranslate": "Overwrite",
      "groupId": 50009,
      "restrictToAssetType": 0,
      "uploadTagName": "",
      "label": "",
      "iterative": false,
      "labels": {
        "3": {
          "labelId": 51456,
          "languageId": 3,
          "metafieldId": 50384,
          "label": "Message",
          "description": ""
        },
        "1": {
          "labelId": 51481,
          "languageId": 1,
          "metafieldId": 50384,
          "label": "Message",
          "description": ""
        }
      }
    }
    // More fields omitted
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "value": "",
      "type": 70,
      "itemId": 9588,
      "labelId": 51456
    }
    // More values omitted
  ]
}

Parsing response

The response uses distinct types for both fields and values, so these have to be considered when parsing the response. Each value/field has a type property that specifies the discriminator value for each subtype when parsing. The type is based on the metafield type. A full overview of types can be seen in this table:

Name	Numeric value

Name	Numeric value
Int	51
String	60
Bit	61
DateTime	64
MultiComboValue	67
ComboValue	68
EditComboValue	69
Note	70
MasterItemReference	80
SlaveItemReference	81
Float	82
EditMultiComboValue	169
Tree	300
Link	350

Field Response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
itemId	int	The itemId of the metafield.
metafieldId	int	The metafieldId of the metafield.
guid	string/uuid/guid	The ItemGuid of the metafield
type	enum/int	A value of the enumation mentioned on the above table. Use this to figure out which specified subtype to parse the response as.
name	string	A language-indenpendent name for the field. Usually the english name.
description	string	A language-independent description for the field.
sortIndex	int	A value that indicates how this field should be sorted in relation to other metafields.
visibilityMetaFieldId	int	Specifies the metafieldId of another metafield, this metafield depends on to be visible. If the value is 0 or null, then the field does not depend on another field.
visibilityRegex	string	If visibilityMetaFieldId is non-zero, then this is the regex to run on the value of that field to figure out if this field should be shown.
required	bool	If this field needs to have a value.
readonly	bool	If the field is marked as readonly or you don’t have write access.
HasWriteAccess	bool	If you don’t have write access to the field, independent of the field being marked `readonly`.
showInList	bool	If this field should be shown in the metadata editor in Media Manager.
system	bool	If this field is something the system absolutely needs to run.
autoTranslate	enum/string, one of: None CreateIfMissing Overwrite AutotranslateCreateIfMissing AutotranslateOverwrite	Specifies how values are copied between different languages if a value updated.
groupId	int	The id of the metafield group this field is part of.
restrictToAssetType	int	The asset type this field should be visible for. If 0, then the field is visible for all assets
uploadTagName	string	A special tag for additional metadata extraction from the source file on upload.
labels	object	Specifies information about how the metafield is described in each available language. The key of the object is the language id.
labels.labelId	int	The metafieldLabelId of the field in that language.
labels.languageId	int	The language id of this metafieldLabel
labels.metafieldId	int	The metafieldId of the main metafield.
labels.label	string	The title/name/label of the field in this language.
labels.description	string	A language specific description of the metafield.
viewType	enum/string, one of Combo Radio	Describes how this combo field should be rendered as an input. Only available on metafield type `ComboValue`.
viewType	enum/string, one of Date DateTime	Describes how this date field should be rendered as an input. Only available on metafield type `DateTime`.
ItemType	enum/string	The item type of values that are selectable for this field. Only available on metafield type `MasterItemReference` and `SlaveItemReference`.
maxCount	int	How many items can be selected at most. Or 0 for no limit. Only available on metafield type `MasterItemReference` and `SlaveItemReference`.
relatedMetaFieldLabelId	int/null	The metafieldLabelId of the SlaveItemReference / MasterItemReference metafield for this MasterItemReference / SlaveItemReference metafield. Only available on metafield type `MasterItemReference` and `SlaveItemReference`.
relatedMetaFieldId	int/null	The metafieldId of the SlaveItemReference metafield for this MasterItemReference metafield. Only available on metafield type `MasterItemReference` and `SlaveItemReference`.
maxLength	int	The max number of character that can be specified as a value. Only available on metafield type `Note` and `String`.
showRichTextEditor	bool	If this note metafield should be rendered as a rich text editor, rather than just a multi-line plaintext editor. Only available on metafield type `Note`.
selectToRoot	bool	If selecting a leaf node in the tree should automatically select all values up to the root of the tree. Only available on metafield type `Tree`.

Group response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
Name	string	The name of this group.
groupId	int	The id of this group.
sortIndex	int	How this group should be sorted in relation to other groups.
visibilityMetaFieldId	int	Specifies the metafieldId of a metafield, this group depends on to be visible. If the value is null, then the group does not depend on a field.
visibilityRegex	string	If visibilityMetaFieldId is not null, then this is the regex to run on the value of that field to figure out if this group should be shown.

Value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
itemId	int	The item id of the asset this value belongs to.
labelId	int	The metafieldLabelId of the metafield/metafieldLabel this value belongs to.
type	enum/int	The metafield type of this value. Use to figure out which specific subtype to parse this value as.

`Bit` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	bool	The value

`DateTime` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	DateTime/null	The value or null.

`Float` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	double/null	The value or null.

`Int` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	int/null	The value or null.

`Link` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	string/null	The value or null.

`String/Note` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	string	The value.

`ComboValue/EditComboValue` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
value	object	The value. Can be null.
value.id	int	The language specific id of this combo value.
value.label	string	The language specific label/name/title of this combo value.
value.optionValue	string	The language independent text value of this combo.
value.comboId	int	The language independent id of this combo value.

`MultiComboValue/MultiEditComboValue` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
values	array	The selected values.
values.id	int	The language specific id of this combo value.
values.label	string	The language specific label/name/title of this combo value.
values.optionValue	string	The language independent text value of this combo.
values.comboId	int	The language independent id of this combo value.

`MasterItemReference/SlaveItemReference` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
items	array	The selected items.
items.itemId	int	The itemId of the reference item
items.title	string	A title for the referenced item.
items.baseId	int	The baseId of the item. For assets this is the asset id, for member the member id, and so forth.
items.itemType	enum/string	The item type of this item. Should generally match the item type of the field itself.

`Tree` value response properties

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
values	array	The selected values.
values.id	int	The language specific id of this tree node.
values.label	string	The language specific label/name/title of this tree node.
values.optionValue	string	The language independent text value of this tree node.
values.treeNodeId	int	The language independent id of this tree node.
values.parentId	int/null	The language specific id of the parent note, or null if no parent.
values.labelPath	string	A path containing each label/name/title on the way to this node from the root.
values.optionValuePath	string	A path containing each optionValue on the way to this node from the root.
values.parentTreeNodeId	int/null	The treeNodeId of the parent tree node, or null if no parent.
values.treeNodeIdPath	string	A path containing each treeNodeId on the way to this node from the root.

Documentation

DC 5.8 Getting asset metadata

Parsing response

Field Response properties

Group response properties

Value response properties

`Bit` value response properties

`DateTime` value response properties

`Float` value response properties

`Int` value response properties

`Link` value response properties

`String/Note` value response properties

`ComboValue/EditComboValue` value response properties

`MultiComboValue/MultiEditComboValue` value response properties

`MasterItemReference/SlaveItemReference` value response properties

`Tree` value response properties

Parsing response

Field Response properties

Group response properties

Value response properties

Bit value response properties

DateTime value response properties

Float value response properties

Int value response properties

Link value response properties

String/Note value response properties

ComboValue/EditComboValue value response properties

MultiComboValue/MultiEditComboValue value response properties

MasterItemReference/SlaveItemReference value response properties

Tree value response properties

`Bit` value response properties

`DateTime` value response properties

`Float` value response properties

`Int` value response properties

`Link` value response properties

`String/Note` value response properties

`ComboValue/EditComboValue` value response properties

`MultiComboValue/MultiEditComboValue` value response properties

`MasterItemReference/SlaveItemReference` value response properties

`Tree` value response properties